Globalisation and Pandemic Management: Issues and Outcomes from Covid-19

This book considers the global response on governance after the pandemic while sociologically addressing the effects of COVID-19 on life and work experience.

It presents the effects of COVID-19 on global and local labour markets, the development of digitisation and technology, of work health, and on the environment with respect to global warming and climate change. Linking COVID-19 to the progress of globalisation, the book considers the spread of the pandemic and its management as a response to neoliberalism.

The book analyses national and international governance models for tackling future outcomes of emerging global issues such as technology, green industry and environment that may inform future management of global crises. As such, it will be of interest to scholars in the field of Global Studies, Governance, International Relations, Political Science, Complexity Studies, Environment Studies, Sociology, Disaster Management and Occupational Health.

Chris L. Peterson PhD has an Adjunct appointment in the Department of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia. He specialises in work-related stress, chronic disease and epilepsy and has published extensively in these areas, including several books. He has also recently published the book Identifying and Managing Risk at Work: Emerging Issues in the Context of Globalisation. He primarily undertakes quantitative research, but also engages with qualitative research. He is co-investigator on a six-wave longitudinal study of the social aspects of epilepsy and has been chief investigator or co-investigator on a number of large grants.