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COVID-19: Differential ethnic environmental behaviours and concerns

  • Funded by Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
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Grant number: AQ0850

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Start & end year

    2020
    2020

  • Known Financial Commitments (USD)

    $0

  • Funder

    Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)

  • Principal Investigator

    N/A

  • Research Location

    United Kingdom

  • Lead Research Institution

    N/A

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Policies for public health, disease control & community resilience

  • Research Subcategory

    Approaches to public health interventions

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Unspecified

  • Vulnerable Population

    Minority communities unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

Description This report presents findings from analysis of survey data from the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformation (CAST) to explore whether respondents from Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) groups experienced the COVID-19 lockdown differently to white respondents in regard to their environmental behaviours, attitudes and experiences. Objective The specific research objectives are to test whether there are meaningful differences in: Environmental attitudes and behaviours between BAME and white respondents since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic; Wellbeing and worry about COVID-19 between BAME and white respondents; and Any change of environmental behaviours reported from before the pandemic to during the pandemic between BAME and white respondents.