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Economic and Ecological Impacts of Climate Change on Coastal Fisheries: A Global Analysis of Vulnerability and Adaptive Management Strategies

Researchers conducted a global analysis of how climate change compounds existing threats to coastal fisheries, including pollution from microplastics and other anthropogenic stressors. The study evaluated vulnerability across regions and assessed adaptive management strategies. The findings suggest that integrated approaches addressing both climate and pollution pressures are needed to sustain coastal fisheries.

2025 American journal of student research. 1 citations
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Assessing the Impact of Microplastic Pollution on Coastal Ecosystems: a Multidimensional Environmental Approach

This review presents a comprehensive multidimensional analysis of microplastic pollution in coastal ecosystems, examining how microplastics alter sediment dynamics, disrupt marine food webs, and interact synergistically with heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants to create a complex environmental crisis requiring integrative management solutions.

2025 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Dampak Mikroplastik terhadap Ekosistem Pesisir: Sebuah Telaah Pustaka

This Indonesian-language review examines the impacts of microplastics on coastal ecosystems, covering effects on marine organisms, sediment quality, and food web dynamics. The paper highlights the vulnerability of tropical coastal environments to plastic pollution from both land-based and marine sources.

2024 INSOLOGI Jurnal Sains dan Teknologi
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Plastics and microplastics, effects on marine coastal areas: a review

This review examines how plastics and microplastics impact coastal marine ecosystems, covering their entry pathways, degradation under environmental conditions, and ecological effects on marine organisms.

2020 Environmental Science and Pollution Research 72 citations
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Microplastic pollution in a rapidly changing world: Implications for remote and vulnerable marine ecosystems

Researchers reviewed the growing body of evidence on microplastic pollution reaching remote and vulnerable marine ecosystems far from major human activities. The study highlights that these ecosystems, already under stress from climate change, face additional threats from microplastic contamination whose long-term biological and ecological effects remain poorly understood.

2020 The Science of The Total Environment 220 citations
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Assessing the Impact of Microplastic Pollution on Coastal Ecosystems: a Multidimensional Environmental Approach

This review presents a comprehensive multidimensional analysis of microplastic pollution in coastal ecosystems, covering sources, distribution pathways, ecological effects on marine organisms, and implications for environmental management. The authors draw on recent interdisciplinary research to assess how microplastics infiltrate nearly every ecological compartment from coastal waters to ocean sediments and interact with biological and chemical systems.

2025 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Navigating the nexus: climate dynamics and microplastics pollution in coastal ecosystems

This review examines how climate change and microplastic pollution interact in coastal ecosystems, finding that rising sea levels, ocean acidification, and stronger storms are spreading microplastics further and faster into marine environments. These climate-driven changes also accelerate plastic breakdown into smaller, more dangerous particles that are more easily absorbed by marine life. The combination of worsening climate conditions and increasing plastic pollution poses a growing threat to both coastal ecosystems and the millions of people who depend on them for food.

2024 Environmental Research 13 citations
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Insightful analytical review of potential impacts of microplastic pollution on coastal and marine ecosystem services

This analytical review assessed how microplastic debris disrupts ecological functions of marine and coastal habitats, including mangroves and seagrass ecosystems, identifying critical knowledge gaps around microbial impacts and calling for coordinated global research on supporting ecosystem services most vulnerable to microplastic interference.

2025 Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances 3 citations
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When Plastics Dominate the Seas: a Study of the Threat to Coastal Community Development from Plastic Waste

This qualitative study investigated the ecological, health, and economic impacts of plastic pollution on coastal communities in the Riau Islands, Indonesia, focusing on effects on marine ecosystems and fishermen's livelihoods. Plastic waste was found to threaten fish stocks and fishing income, illustrating how marine plastic pollution directly undermines coastal community development.

2025 International Journal of Education and Economic Sciences
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Literature Review: Dampak Mikroplastik Terhadap Lingkungan Pesisir, Biota Laut dan Potensi Risiko Kesehatan

This literature review examines the impacts of microplastic pollution on coastal environments, marine life, and potential human health risks. Researchers compiled evidence showing that microplastics accumulate throughout marine food chains and can carry harmful chemicals and pathogens. The study highlights concerns about metabolism disruption, neurotoxicity, and increased health risks associated with microplastic exposure, underscoring the need for more research and policy action.

2023 JURNAL KESEHATAN LINGKUNGAN INDONESIA 16 citations
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A systematic review and scientometrics analysis on microplastic pollution on coastal beaches around the globe

This systematic review analyzes microplastic pollution on coastal beaches worldwide. The research found that beach contamination varies widely by region but is present on virtually every coastline studied. This matters because beaches are not just recreational areas but also habitats where microplastics can enter marine food webs and eventually reach people through seafood consumption.

2025 Continental Shelf Research 4 citations
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Towards Understanding Drivers of Plastic Embrittlement and Fragmentation in Coastal Environments

This review examines the physical and chemical drivers of plastic fragmentation in coastal environments, including UV radiation, mechanical wave action, temperature fluctuations, and oxidation. The authors find that coastal environments produce microplastics faster than open ocean environments due to compounding abiotic stressors, and that fragmentation dynamics shape the size distribution and toxicity profile of coastal plastic pollution.

2025
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Dampak Pencemaran Mikroplastik di wilayah Pesisir dan Kelautan

This Indonesian overview examines the problems of microplastic contamination in coastal and marine environments, reviewing the sources, distribution, and ecological effects of plastic pollution. The paper highlights the particular vulnerability of Indonesian coastal areas given high plastic waste generation and limited waste management infrastructure.

2023 Jurnal Pasir Laut 1 citations
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Chemical and ecotoxicological assessment of microplastics and emerging risks in the coastal environments

This review examines the chemical composition of microplastics found in coastal environments and assesses their ecotoxicological risks, including the leaching of plastic additives and adsorption of environmental pollutants. It emphasizes the need for better risk assessment frameworks that account for both the particles and their associated chemical contaminants.

2020 Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona (Universitat de Barcelona) 3 citations
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Coastal pollution of aquatic systems

This review examined pollution in coastal aquatic systems during the Anthropocene, covering the types of stressors — including plastics, nutrients, and chemicals — and the challenges of monitoring dynamic coastal environments. It emphasizes that coastal systems integrate land-based human impacts and are among the most heavily affected by plastic contamination.

2016 Refubium (Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin)
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Ocean Plastics: How marine litter shapes the lives of residents of Cu Lao Cham Marine Protected Area, Vietnam

This thesis examines how marine plastic litter washing up on beaches affects the daily lives of coastal residents in Vietnam's Cu Lao Cham Marine Protected Area. It highlights an overlooked social dimension of plastic pollution, showing that communities in one of the world's top plastic-polluting countries bear direct economic and livelihood consequences from ocean litter.

2020 The Atrium (University of Guelph) 1 citations
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Microplastics in Marine and Coastal Ecosystems: A Public Health Perspective

This public health-focused review (2010–2025) traces microplastic contamination in marine and coastal ecosystems from early detection studies through mechanistic toxicological research, synthesizing evidence on human exposure pathways through seafood and coastal environment contact.

2025 UTTAR PRADESH JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY
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A review on microplastics pollution in coastal wetlands

Researchers reviewed existing studies on microplastic pollution in coastal wetlands — ecosystems like mangroves, salt marshes, and tidal flats — summarizing where microplastics accumulate, how they get there, and how they affect wildlife and ecosystem function. These habitats are especially vulnerable because they sit at the boundary between land and sea, trapping plastics carried by both rivers and ocean tides.

2022 Watershed Ecology and the Environment 16 citations
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Microplastic pollution along the coastal island shorelines of Bangladesh: Distribution, patterns, and abundance

This study characterized microplastic pollution on coastal island shorelines of Bangladesh, measuring particle abundance, types, shapes, and polymer composition across sites with different human use intensities. Tourist and fishing beaches showed the highest contamination, with fishing-related plastics dominating.

2024 Heliyon 7 citations
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Monitoring and Assessment of Microplastic Pollution in Coastal Zones: Sampling Methods and Spatial Distribution Characteristics

This review examines sampling methods and spatial distribution characteristics of microplastic pollution in coastal zones, synthesizing approaches for monitoring these key environmental interfaces. Researchers found that coastal zones serve as major sinks and dispersal areas for microplastics, with sampling methodology significantly influencing reported concentrations and distribution patterns.

2025
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Deciphering the behavior and fate of microplastics in coastal aquatic environments: A comprehensive review illuminating coastal dynamics and driving mechanisms

This comprehensive review examined the behavior and fate of microplastics in coastal aquatic environments, covering transport fluxes from watersheds to the ocean, physical and geochemical dynamics, and interactions with particles and organisms in beach, nearshore, and estuarine zones. The authors highlighted controversy in estimating riverine microplastic fluxes and identified key knowledge gaps.

2025 Earth-Science Reviews 4 citations
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Holistic assessment of microplastics in various coastal environmental matrices, southwest coast of India

A comprehensive assessment of microplastic pollution along the southwest coast of India analyzed multiple environmental matrices including water, sediments, and biota, finding plastic contamination throughout coastal systems. The holistic approach revealed how microplastics move through coastal food webs and identified fishing and tourism activities as key local sources.

2019 The Science of The Total Environment 296 citations
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Microplastics pollution in mangrove ecosystems: A critical review of current knowledge and future directions

This review synthesizes available research on microplastic pollution in mangrove ecosystems, which act as buffers between land and sea and accumulate plastics from both marine and terrestrial sources. The authors identify key gaps in knowledge and call for more research on how microplastics affect these ecologically critical habitats.

2020 The Science of The Total Environment 228 citations
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Understanding the socioeconomic determinants of marine plastic pollution: Evaluating policy effectiveness and mitigation strategies in the Global South.

Researchers synthesized qualitative and quantitative evidence on marine plastic pollution in the Global South, identifying rapid urbanization, inadequate waste infrastructure, and weak governance as primary drivers, and recommending integrated strategies combining single-use plastic bans, extended producer responsibility, regional cooperation, and circular economy incentives.

2026 Marine pollution bulletin