Publication: COVID-19 impacts and sustainability strategies for regional recovery in southeast asia: Challenges and opportunities
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2021-08-02
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20711050
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Mahidol University
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Sustainability (Switzerland). Vol.13, No.16 (2021)
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Suparak Suriyankietkaew, Suthep Nimsai COVID-19 impacts and sustainability strategies for regional recovery in southeast asia: Challenges and opportunities. Sustainability (Switzerland). Vol.13, No.16 (2021). doi:10.3390/su13168907 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/76901
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COVID-19 impacts and sustainability strategies for regional recovery in southeast asia: Challenges and opportunities
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The COVID-19 pandemic crisis is threatening our progressive social, ecological and economic development toward achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Studies of its impacts on sustainable development in emerging economies and on fast-grow-ing regional development, such as Southeast Asia or the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN), are scarce to date. This paper aims to investigate the COVID-19 impacts and identify challenges and opportunities for possible sustainable recovery solutions with respect to the UN SDGs. We employed a qualitative research method through analytical literature reviews and in-depth interviews with 33 organizations. Our results reveal various pandemic effects, challenges and opportunities for cooperative regional sustainability development and recovery strategies, such as intra-trade strategy, green economy and public–private–people partnerships. The findings provide practical guidance on policy implications for transformative regional sustainability and innovative recovery strategies to achieve the sustainable development agendas (i.e., ASEAN Community Vision 2025 and UN 2030 Agenda). Overall, the paper contributes to advance our limited understanding in this realm and benefits diverse stakeholders toward our sustainable futures.