We would like to announce a new Special Issue; "Geography of the COVID-19 pandemic: public health, economic and environmental consequences".

A special issue of GES is devoted to assessing the scale of the coronavirus pandemic, analyzing the main mechanisms of its impact on the economy and socio-economic consequences in different geographical settings, medical and social problems, and the pandemic impact on the environment and air quality.

The range of topics includes:

• natural, economic, and socio-cultural features of the spread and geographical differentiation of coronavirus incidence;
• the analysis of the pandemic impact on the environment and air quality; the identification of the role of anthropogenic factors in air pollution in cities worldwide, especially during the lockdown periods, taking into account for natural variability;
• fundamental principles of geoinformation support for making geographically differentiated decisions to combat viral infection (and dynamic zoning of infection risk);
• multi-scale analysis of the environmental, socio-economic, and geopolitical consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia and around the world.

Deadline for papers’ submission: 31 July 2021