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Transnational and Transdisciplinary Lessons of COVID 19 From the Perspective of Risk and Management

A special issue of Journal of Risk and Financial Management (ISSN 1911-8074). This special issue belongs to the section "Risk".

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Prof. Dr. Julien S. Baker

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Center for Health and Exercise Science Research, Department of Sport, Physical Education and Health, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong 999077, China
Interests: health behaviors; medical and health sciences; applied physiology; exercise and immune function; hormonal control and exercise applied physiology; exercise biochemistry; cardiovascular disease; obesity and related co-morbidities; biomechanics
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Dr. Yang Gao

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1. Centre for Health and Exercise Science Research, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
2. Department of Sport, Physical Education and Health, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
Interests: health promotion; disease prevention; disease rehabilitation; exercise sciences
Prof. Dr. Alistair Cole

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Department of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong, China
Interests: european and comparative politics; public administration; public policy
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Dr. Emilie Tran

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Department of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
Interests: China; Chine-Europe relations; diasporas
Prof. Dr. Xiao-Guang Yue

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School of Sciences, European University Cyprus, Nicosia 1516, Cyprus
Interests: risk management

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Rarely has scientific research been as solicited as in the past few months, as societies struggle to cope with the coronavirus. The questions raised by COVID-19 are germane to the medical and the social sciences.  From an International Relations perspective, COVID-19 gets to the heart of what comprises a common good—the global commons. From a public policy perspective, COVID-19 is the wicked policy problem par excellence, requiring inter-agency collaboration. From a social science perspective, COVID-19 provides a vast living dataset to engage in multilevel comparisons and real-time experiments. In the medical research field, the pandemic has provided advancements in medical science that would not have been possible without access to a living laboratory. The huge advances in medical science have themselves been filtered by societal variables such as trust and transparency, or risk and resilience. Responding to existential dilemmas, the COVID-19 pandemic calls for a major transdisciplinary research effort that necessarily combines several levels of empirical analysis and methodological tools and bridges distinct academic and scientific traditions. The Special issue will engage in a transnational and transdisciplinary exercise in reflexivity, consisting of a mix of research articles, review articles as well as short communications which address one or more of the cutting-edge issues at the transdisciplinary and/or transnational intersection on the COVID-19 pandemic:

  • COVID-19 from the perspective of risk and management
  • Economic and financial consequences of COVID-19
  • Psychological, medical, and environmental markers of COVID-19
  • Trust and transparency as governance tools for COVID-19
  • Risk and resilience as coping strategies for COVID-19
  • Crisis management and governance
  • Global perspectives and experience on governance and societies in the pandemic
  • Public opinion and COVID-19
  • (Social) media communication strategies
  • Big data, smart apps, and the pandemic
  • The world after COVID-19

Prof. Dr. Julien S. Baker
Dr. Yang Gao
Prof. Dr. Alistair Cole
Dr. Emilie Tran
Prof. Dr. Xiao-Guang Yue
Guest Editors

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Editorial
Introduction to the Special Issue ‘Transnational and Transdisciplinary Lessons of COVID-19 from the Perspective of Risk and Management’
by Alistair Cole, Julien S. Baker, Emilie Tran and Yang Gao
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2022, 15(5), 210; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jrfm15050210 - 05 May 2022
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Rarely has scientific research been as solicited as in the past two years, as societies struggle to cope with the coronavirus [...] Full article
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COVID-19 Impact on the Sport Sector Economy and Athletic Performance
by Huw D. Wiltshire, Rashmi Supriya and Julien S. Baker
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2022, 15(4), 173; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jrfm15040173 - 09 Apr 2022
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As COVID-19 continues to impact global health, and educational, financial, commercial institutions, sport, in particular, has not been spared [...] Full article
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COVID-19: Barriers to Physical Activity in Older Adults, a Decline in Health or Economy?
by Jiao Jiao, Rashmi Supriya, Bik C. Chow, Julien S. Baker, Frédéric Dutheil, Yang Gao, Sze-Hoi Chan, Wei Liang, Feifei Li and Dan Tao
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2022, 15(2), 51; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jrfm15020051 - 23 Jan 2022
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Since spring 2020, in response to the global threat of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, several governments implemented emergency policies and regulations to prevent further transmission of the disease (Portegijs et al [...] Full article
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Financial Burden and Shortage of Respiratory Rehabilitation for SARS-CoV-2 Survivors: The Next Step of the Pandemic?
by Frédéric Dutheil, Maelys Clinchamps, Julien S. Baker, Rashmi Supriya, Alistair Cole, Yang Gao and Valentin Navel
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2022, 15(1), 20; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jrfm15010020 - 07 Jan 2022
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We read with great enthusiasm the recent article by Daynes et al [...] Full article
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COVID-19: An Economic or Social Disease? Implications for Disadvantaged Populations
by Hijrah Nasir, Valentin Navel, Julien S Baker, Rashmi Supriya, Alistair Cole, Yang Gao and Frederic Dutheil
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2021, 14(12), 587; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jrfm14120587 - 06 Dec 2021
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The world is still struggling against the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic [...] Full article
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Alcohol Consumption Pre and Post COVID-19. Implications for Health, Underlying Pathologies, Risks and Its Management
by Julien S. Baker, Rashmi Supriya, Dan Tao and Yang Gao
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2021, 14(11), 533; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jrfm14110533 - 08 Nov 2021
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Research indicates that individuals who experience increased levels of stress often report increased alcohol consumption and consequently misuse [...] Full article
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Transnational and Transdisciplinary Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
by Frédéric Dutheil, Valentin Navel, Julien S. Baker, Emilie Tran, Alistair Cole, Binh Quach, Jiao Jiao, Jean-Baptiste Bouillon-Minois and Maëlys Clinchamps
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2021, 14(10), 483; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jrfm14100483 - 13 Oct 2021
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On 7 January 2020, China identified a virus called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) [...] Full article
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To Trust or Not to Trust? COVID-19 Facemasks in China–Europe Relations: Lessons from France and the United Kingdom
by Emilie Tran and Yu-chin Tseng
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2022, 15(4), 187; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jrfm15040187 - 18 Apr 2022
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At the crossroads of sociology and international relations, this interdisciplinary and comparative research article explores how the COVID-19 outbreak has impacted China–Europe relations. Unfolding the critical moments of the COVID-19 outbreak, this article characterizes the evolution of China–Europe relations with regard to the [...] Read more.
At the crossroads of sociology and international relations, this interdisciplinary and comparative research article explores how the COVID-19 outbreak has impacted China–Europe relations. Unfolding the critical moments of the COVID-19 outbreak, this article characterizes the evolution of China–Europe relations with regard to the facemask. This simple object of self-protection against the coronavirus strikingly became a source of contention between peoples and states. In the face of this situation, we argue that the facemask is the prism through which to illustrate (1) the transnational links between China and its overseas population, (2) the changing social perceptions of China and Chinese-looking people in European societies, and (3) the advent of China’s health diplomacy and its reception in Europe. Comparing two European settings—France and the United Kingdom (UK)—the common denominator appears to be the reduced trust, if not outright distrust, between individuals and communities in the French and British contexts, and in Sino–French and Sino–British relations at the transnational level. Combining critical juncture theory and (dis)trust in international relations as our analytical framework, this article examines how the facemask became a politicized object, both between states and between Mainland China and its overseas population, as the epidemic unfolded throughout Europe. Adopting a qualitative approach, our dataset comprises the analysis of official speeches and statements; press releases; traditional and social media content (especially through hashtags such as #JeNeSuisPasUnVirus, #IAmNotAVirus, #CoronaRacism, etc.); and interviews with Chinese, French, and British community members. Full article
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The COVID-19 Health Crisis and Its Impact on China’s International Relations
by Jean-Pierre Cabestan
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2022, 15(3), 123; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jrfm15030123 - 04 Mar 2022
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Using qualitative methods, this article focuses on the relationship between the COVID-19 health crisis and China’s foreign policy and foreign relations. My main argument is that since its outbreak in late 2019, the COVID-19 health crisis has deepened the tensions already existing between [...] Read more.
Using qualitative methods, this article focuses on the relationship between the COVID-19 health crisis and China’s foreign policy and foreign relations. My main argument is that since its outbreak in late 2019, the COVID-19 health crisis has deepened the tensions already existing between China and the United States, as well as China and the West in general. Other factors that appeared before the pandemic have also contributed to intensifying the Sino-US rivalry as well as Sino-European frictions. Nonetheless, Beijing’s proactive mask and vaccine diplomacy, its strict lockdown policy as well as its more aggressive nationalist and anti-western narrative have fed rather than alleviated these tensions. While China’s image in the Global South has remained largely positive, in the Global North, it has rapidly deteriorated. All in all, this paper demonstrates that the pandemic has been an aggravating factor contributing to the downward spiral of China’s relations with the outside world as well as its own isolation. Full article
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Communication
Trust, Transparency and Transnational Lessons from COVID-19
by Alistair Cole, Julien S. Baker and Dionysios Stivas
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2021, 14(12), 607; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jrfm14120607 - 15 Dec 2021
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The article engages in an exercise in reflexivity around trust and the COVID-19 pandemic. Common understandings of trust are mapped out across disciplinary boundaries and discussed in the cognitive fields in the medical and social sciences. While contexts matter in terms of the [...] Read more.
The article engages in an exercise in reflexivity around trust and the COVID-19 pandemic. Common understandings of trust are mapped out across disciplinary boundaries and discussed in the cognitive fields in the medical and social sciences. While contexts matter in terms of the understandings and uses made of concepts such as trust and transparency, comparison across academic disciplines and experiences drawn from country experiences allows general propositions to be formulated for further exploration. International health crises require efforts to rebuild trust, understood in a multidisciplinary sense as a relationship based on trusteeship, in the sense of mutual obligations in a global commons, where trust is a key public good. The most effective responses in a pandemic are joined up ones, where individuals (responsible for following guidelines) trust intermediaries (health professionals) and are receptive to messages (nudges) from the relevant governmental authorities. Hence, the distinction between hard medical and soft social science blurs when patients and citizens are required to be active participants in combatting the virus. Building on the diagnosis of a crisis of trust (in the field of health security and across multiple layers of governance), the article renews with calls to restore trust by enhancing transparency. Full article
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Trust, Transparency and Welfare: Third-Sector Adult Social Care Delivery and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the UK
by Paul Chaney and Christala Sophocleous
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2021, 14(12), 572; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jrfm14120572 - 26 Nov 2021
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Since the move to quasi-federalism in the 1990s, different territorial welfare mixes on adult social care (ASC) have emerged in the four nations of the UK. This study explores policy actors’ views on their effectiveness in the pandemic with reference to the role [...] Read more.
Since the move to quasi-federalism in the 1990s, different territorial welfare mixes on adult social care (ASC) have emerged in the four nations of the UK. This study explores policy actors’ views on their effectiveness in the pandemic with reference to the role of institutions, trust and transparency. The analysis is based on extensive secondary data analysis and primary interviews with key individuals involved in the delivery and regulation of ASC. The findings highlight how the pandemic exposed existing pathologies and the need for reform in all four systems. Notably, the analysis shows how the present market-based tendering systems for allocating ASC contracts undermine inter-personal and institutional trust and compromise care quality. The wider significance of this lies in showing the pivotal role of trust during the emergency and that post-pandemic welfare reform needs to embed trust-building measures to deliver effective care. Full article
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Behavioral and Mental Responses towards the COVID-19 Pandemic among Chinese Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study
by Wei Liang, Yanping Duan, Min Yang, Borui Shang, Chun Hu, Yanping Wang and Julien Steven Baker
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2021, 14(12), 568; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jrfm14120568 - 24 Nov 2021
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The novel COVID-19 pandemic spread quickly and continuously influenced global societies. As a vulnerable population that accounted for the highest percentage of deaths from the pandemic, older adults have experienced huge life-altering challenges and increased risks of mental problems during the pandemic. Empirical [...] Read more.
The novel COVID-19 pandemic spread quickly and continuously influenced global societies. As a vulnerable population that accounted for the highest percentage of deaths from the pandemic, older adults have experienced huge life-altering challenges and increased risks of mental problems during the pandemic. Empirical evidence is needed to develop effective strategies to promote preventive measures and mitigate the adverse psychological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to investigate the behavioral responses (i.e., preventive behaviors, physical activity, fruit and vegetable consumption) and mental responses (i.e., depression and loneliness) towards the COVID-19 pandemic among Chinese older adults. A further aim was to identify the associations among demographics, behavioral responses, and mental responses. Using a convenience sampling approach, 516 older adults were randomly recruited from five cities of Hubei province in China. Results of the cross-sectional survey showed that 11.7% of participants did not adhere to the WHO recommended preventive measures, while 37.6% and 8.3% of participants decreased physical activity and fruit–vegetable consumption respectively. For mental responses, 30.8% and 69.2% of participants indicated significantly depressive symptoms and severe loneliness, respectively. Participants’ behavioral and mental responses differed significantly in several demographics, such as age group, living situation, marital status, education levels, household income, medical conditions, and perceived health status. Demographic correlates and behavioral responses could significantly predicate the mental response with small-to-moderate effect sizes. This is the first study to investigate the characteristics of behavioral and mental responses of Chinese older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research findings may give new insights into future developments of effective interventions and policies to promote health among older adults in the fight against the pandemic. Full article
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The Preventive Role of Exercise on the Physiological, Psychological, and Psychophysiological Parameters of Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2): A Mini Review
by Julien S. Baker, Alistair Cole, Dan Tao, Feifei Li, Wei Liang, Jojo Jiao, Yang Gao and Rashmi Supriya
J. Risk Financial Manag. 2021, 14(10), 476; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jrfm14100476 - 09 Oct 2021
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The world has been severely challenged by the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) outbreak since the early 2020s. Worldwide, there have been more than 66 million cases of infection and over 3,880,450 deaths caused by this highly contagious disease. All sections of the population including [...] Read more.
The world has been severely challenged by the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) outbreak since the early 2020s. Worldwide, there have been more than 66 million cases of infection and over 3,880,450 deaths caused by this highly contagious disease. All sections of the population including those who are affected, those who are not affected and those who have recovered from this disease, are suffering physiologically, psychologically or psychophysiologically. In this paper we briefly discuss the consequences of COVID-19 on physiological, psychological and psychophysiological vulnerability. We also attempt to provide evidence in support of exercise management as a prevention strategy for improving and minimizing the physiological, psychological and psychophysiological effects of COVID-19. Moderate exercise including walking, yoga and tai-chi to name but a few exercise regimes are critical in preventing COVID-19 and its complications. Governments, public health authorities and the general population should maintain physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic to prevent additional physical and mental distress. Full article
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