Autor según el artículo: Saladié Ò; Bustamante E; Gutiérrez A

Departamento: Geografia

Autor/es de la URV: Gutiérrez Palomero, Aaron / Saladié Borraz, Òscar

Palabras clave: Yosemite-national-park Travel Tourism Search Risk Rescues Protected natural areas Patterns Insights Injuries Impact Hikers Emergency services Covid-19 Catalonia

Resumen: This article analyzes the impact of the end of the COVID-19 lockdown on the number of rescues in natural areas in Catalonia (Spain) during July and August 2020. We compared the figures for 2020 with those corresponding to the same period in 2016–2019, including their temporal and spatial distributions. Our findings show that the number of rescues undertaken by the Catalan Fire Department in July and August 2020 increased significantly compared to the same summer period in the four previous years (+39.7%). The daily averages increased for both weekends and weekdays in 2020, with 7.5 and 3.9 rescues per day, respectively. The greatest increase corresponded to rescue operations conducted at low altitudes (up to 500 m ASL) and areas with no specific protection status near to populated places. Natural areas were perceived safer than, for example, coastal destinations in terms of the risk of COVID-19 contagion, and they experienced a growth in visitors during the first summer of the pandemic. One consequence of this was an increase in emergency service activity to rescue people in natural areas. This research adds new evidence of the multiple indirect effects of the reconfiguration of mobilities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings could be of interest to emergency service managers, managers of protected natural areas, and public authorities.

Áreas temáticas: Nature and landscape conservation Interdisciplinar Historia Global and planetary change Geografía Geociências Environmental studies Ecology Ciências ambientais Biodiversidade

Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

Direcció de correo del autor: oscar.saladie@urv.cat aaron.gutierrez@urv.cat

Identificador del autor: 0000-0002-7989-0717 0000-0003-0557-6319

Fecha de alta del registro: 2023-02-23

Volumen de revista: 10

Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Enlace a la fuente original: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/10/5/498

URL Documento de licencia: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Land. 10 (5):

Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Saladié Ò; Bustamante E; Gutiérrez A (2021). Growth of rescues in natural areas during the first summer of COVID-19 pandemic in Catalonia. Land, 10(5), -. DOI: 10.3390/land10050498

DOI del artículo: 10.3390/land10050498

Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Año de publicación de la revista: 2021

Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications