COVID-19 and Public Policy

Manas Chatterji is an Emeritus Professor of Management at Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA, formerly Guest Professor, Peking University, China and formerly Honorary Distinguished Professor, Pozanon University, Poland, also Co-Founder of the Mahatma Gandhi International Center for Conflict Prevention and Management.Rabindra Chandra Bhattacharya is Vice Chairman at Globsyn Business School, Kolkata, India.Shambhu Prasad Chakrabarty is the Dean of the Department of Law, University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata, India.

• Special Guest Introduction: Lessons for Public Policy from The Covid-19 Pandemic; Olga Shvetsova Chapter 1. When Mercantilism Upsets Neo-Classical Liberal Thinking: The Pandemic Covid-19 as a Revelation; Éric Brunat and Jacques FontanelChapter 2. Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the European Union Economy, Energy and Environment; Fernando Barreiro-Pereira and Touria Abdelkader-Benmesaud-Conde Chapter 3. Biopower, New Normal, Decency, and Otherness: Philosophical Reflections on The Covid-19 Pandemic; Christopher Ryan MabolocChapter 4. A Novel Solution to Biased Data in Disaster Management: Covid-19 Example; H. D. Vinod and Katherine Theiss Chapter 5. Risk Perception, Dilemmas, Psycho-Logic and Public Health: Applications to the Covid-19 Pandemic; Sheldon G. Levy Chapter 6. Corrupting Trust and Trusting Corrupted: On Fire Since The Covid-19 Outbreak; Manuel Lozano Rodríguez Chapter 7. Risk Society, Covid-19, and US Black Americans: Ethnogenesis and ‘Race Relations’ in the Disaster Recovery Context; David McBrideChapter 8. Realisation of a 5-Population Epidemiological Process as a Queuing Network for Simulation and Intervention Policy Design; Nicholas Piaquadio, N. Eva Wu, Morteza Sarailoo, and Qiu Qin Chapter 9. The Impact of Dietary Factors and Sleep on Mental Distress of Men and Women During Different Stages of COVID-19; Lina Begdache, Anseh Danesharasteh, and Zeynep Ertem Chapter 10. Crime Against Children During COVID-19 in India: Hard Lessons for a Brighter Future; Shrabana Chattopadhyay and Shambhu Prasad Chakrabarty Chapter 11. COVID-19 Pandemic in Somalia, South Africa and Zimbabwe: Why Do Leaders Love COVID-19 Precautions?; Onsel Gurel Bayrali and Abdinasir Jimale Chapter 12. An Analysis of the Policy and Regulatory Framework for Online Dispute Resolution during Covid-19 in India and Its Roadmap; Victor Nayak and Abhisikta Basu Chapter 13. Access to the Internet as a 4th Generation of Human Rights: A Critical Analysis with Special Reference to Children’s Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic; Bidisha Bandopadhyay, Nasreen Mallick, and Rathin Bandyopadhyay Chapter 14. Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on the Dissolved Oxygen (DO) Level of the River Ganges Adjacent to the Kolkata City; Ankita Mitra, Arpita Saha, Shambhu Prasad Chakrabarty, Ripon Bhattacharjee, Sufia Zaman, and Abhijit Mitra Chapter 15. The Impact of Covid-19 and New Dimensions of Education; Shivali Kharoliwal