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COVID-19: Vancouver Island, BC (Central & North)

Collected by: Vancouver Island University

Archived since: Mar, 2020

Description:

In March 2020 the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition (CWAC) stated: "The deadly flu outbreak of 1918-19 is often called the ‘forgotten pandemic.’ Our responsibility now is to ensure the lessons of COVID-19 are not forgotten. Our collective efforts to capture and preserve the essential online elements of this unprecedented event are critical." (CARL-ABRC). The COVID-19: Vancouver Island, BC (Central & North) Web Archive reflects community experiences and responses to the pandemic in the region served by Vancouver Island University, documenting and supporting diverse aspects of scholarly inquiry, creativity, and community life. The Web Archive is intended to provide a body of information that will support scholarship, creativity, and study. Information rights related to web archiving include considerations of copyright and fair dealing, and of individual and community privacy. The following are among principles and resources that guide web archiving decisions: Ethics of care, for example in VIU Library’s Pledge to our user communities; OCAP® principles, and awareness of relationality and accountability to Indigenous communities, and potential impacts related to web archiving; Good practice and expert advice, emerging and accessed through communities of practice, e.g. the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition (CWAC); and VIU Library, Evolution of Physical Collections: 2017-2021 VIU Library, Special Collections Guidelines (Under review 2020). Web archives are informed by available capture technologies and also by affordances of the content source; not all websites can be successfully crawled or rendered, and quality of archived versions varies. This project is supported by VIU's Special Funding for COVID-19 research projects and carried out in coordination with the University of Victoria’s COVID-19 Collection and the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition. Contact us at research.help@viu.ca with questions or for more information about content included in the Web Archive. [Working description 2021 April 6]

Subject:   Spontaneous Events,  Society & Culture,  Science & Health,  Vancouver Island,  COVID-19 (Disease)

Creator:   Dana McFarland (Vancouver Island University),  Dalys Barney (Vancouver Island University)

Publisher:   Vancouver Island University Library

Coverage:   British Columbia--Vancouver Island

Date:   2020-

Contact Email:   research.help@viu.ca

Relation:   Ispartof: COVID-19 Collection Vancouver Island: A Collaborative Web Archive of UVic & VIU Libraries

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Title: The importance of nature to city living during the COVID-19 pandemic: Considerations and goals from environmental psychology

URL: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/23331/McCunnCH2020.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has produced an opportunity for urban planners, government decision-makers, health practitioners, and environmental psychologists to further understand human psychosocial wellbeing in cities. Given a growing base of evidence illustrating that interaction with nature positively affects mood and mental health, preserving access to green spaces in cities during this time of mandated social isolation should be considered imperative for as long as possible. This think-piece highlights that parks, community gardens, and other natural areas are essential to urban dwellers, especially if directives to physically distance from one another become longstanding or recurrent. Public decision-makers should aim to develop simple, relatively inexpensive strategies to augment the usability of nature in innovative ways that make it possible to enjoy them while respecting distance guidelines. Also discussed is the notion that a predominant goal for social scientists and urban practitioners during this crisis will be to learn how people view the ways in which public parks and wilder urban areas mitigate their response to worry, isolation, and an altered form of civic engagement. Research on the extent to which ‘sense of place’ changes for city dwellers during this global circumstance will be important for planners and social scientists alike.

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Subject:   Vancouver Island University,  McCunn, Lindsay

Group:   COVID-19 Research

Creator:   McCunn, Lindsay

Publisher:   Vancouver Island University

Source:   Cities & Health

Coverage:   British Columbia--Nanaimo

Format:   Article,  Pre-print

Date:   2020-07-30

Citation:   McCunn, L.J. (2020). The importance of nature to city living during the COVID-19 pandemic: Considerations and goals from environmental psychology. Cities & Health, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2020.1795385

Relation:   ispartof:https://viurrspace.ca/handle/10613/23331

Note:   This is an original manuscript / preprint of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Cities & Health on July 30, 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/23748834.2020.1795385.

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