'Corona Crisis: Once Upon a Pandemic' is a podcast that explores the watershed event in world history from an array of perspectives. Together with expert guests that are engaged with managing and making sense of the global COVID-19 outbreak, podcast hosts Eric Paglia and Marc van den Bossche discuss different aspects of the pandemic, with a focus on crisis management at the national and international levels, and the long term societal and geopolitical implications of this extraordinary event.
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'Corona Crisis: Once Upon a Pandemic' is a podcast that explores the watershed event in world history from an array of perspectives. Together with expert guests that are engaged with managing and making sense of the global COVID-19 outbreak, podcast hosts Eric Paglia and Marc van den Bossche discuss different aspects of the pandemic, with a focus on crisis management at the national and international levels, and the long term societal and geopolitical implications of this extraordinary event.
Cities, industrial agriculture and ecological pathways to pandemics
Corona Crisis: Once Upon a Pandemic
21 minutes
5 years ago
Cities, industrial agriculture and ecological pathways to pandemics
The growth of cities and the expansion of industrial agriculture have greatly increased the density of human and animal populations, heightening the risk of pathogens being exchanged within and between species, and creating new pathways for pandemic outbreaks. On this episode, Prof. Kate Brown from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides an ecological and food production perspective on infectious diseases, and shares insights from her research on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that, like the coronavirus crisis, unleashed an invisible contamination upon human bodies and unprepared societies.
Corona Crisis: Once Upon a Pandemic
'Corona Crisis: Once Upon a Pandemic' is a podcast that explores the watershed event in world history from an array of perspectives. Together with expert guests that are engaged with managing and making sense of the global COVID-19 outbreak, podcast hosts Eric Paglia and Marc van den Bossche discuss different aspects of the pandemic, with a focus on crisis management at the national and international levels, and the long term societal and geopolitical implications of this extraordinary event.
