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ClearPlanetary Health: Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the Anthropocene
This book on Planetary Health framed environmental degradation as a direct threat to human health across domains from pandemics to chronic disease to mental health, arguing that transformative changes in energy, food, housing, and transport systems are needed to simultaneously improve health outcomes and protect the natural systems on which human civilization depends.
The Importance of Environmental Sustainability for Healthy Ageing and The Incorporation of Systems Thinking in Education for A Sustainable Environment
This paper argues that environmental sustainability is a prerequisite for healthy ageing in an increasingly elderly global population, reviewing evidence linking chemical pollution, climate change, and ecosystem degradation to age-related disease. The authors call for systems thinking education to train public health professionals to address environmental sustainability as a core component of healthy ageing policy.
Bridging disciplines-key to success when implementing planetary health in medical training curricula
This review examines the challenges of incorporating planetary health topics, including pollution and environmental contamination, into medical school curricula. Researchers found that a major obstacle is attempting to teach these complex interdisciplinary subjects without involving experts from environmental and natural sciences. The study argues that true cross-disciplinary collaboration is essential for training future doctors to understand the health impacts of environmental issues like microplastic pollution.
Exploring educators’ perception of issues involving Planetary Health: A qualitative study in the Brazilian Amazon
Researchers investigated how teachers in a riverside Brazilian Amazon school perceive planetary health issues, finding that while educators recognized environmental connections to community wellbeing, formal planetary health education remains largely absent from basic school curricula.
A cross-sectional study on the knowledge of and interest in Planetary Health in health-related study programmes in Germany
A cross-sectional survey of 1,303 students enrolled in health-related programs in Bavaria, Germany found moderate knowledge and high interest in Planetary Health topics. Students recognized connections between environmental health and human health but reported that Planetary Health content was poorly integrated into their university curricula.
Die Bedeutung der Konzepte One Health und Planetary Health für die Umweltmedizin im 21. Jahrhundert
This review examined how One Health and Planetary Health frameworks are essential for 21st-century environmental medicine, emphasizing the interconnected threats from chemical pollutants, microplastics, and climate change to both human and ecosystem health.
Educating for environmental transition: the summer school on microplastics
Researchers developed a summer school curriculum on micro- and nanoplastics to train students at the intersection of environmental science, toxicology, and sustainability. The program used MNPs as a case study for interdisciplinary education about complex environmental challenges requiring both scientific and policy responses.
Planetary health action framework: A case study
This case study applied a patient-centered planetary health care framework to a primary care clinical case, using eight analytical lenses including actor-network theory and evidence-based medicine to integrate individual health with environmental sustainability. The paper presents planetary health action as feasible at the community clinical level through structured reflective practice.
What is planetary health? Addressing the environment-health nexus in Southeast Asia in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals: opportunities for International Relations scholars
This policy paper calls for better integration of environmental conservation and human health goals in Southeast Asia, using the concept of planetary health. It argues that clean environments—free of pollutants like microplastics—are essential for human well-being, especially for communities dependent on natural resources.
Bringing to Life the Qualities of a Meaningful Transformative Education
Researchers developed a six-quality heuristic framework to guide meaningful transformative education in the context of today's environmental and social crises. The model emphasizes ecological worldviews, justice, and systemic change, illustrated with real-world examples from schools in England.
Transdisciplinary Research Priorities for Human and Planetary Health in the Context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
An interdisciplinary workshop developed a transdisciplinary research agenda for human and planetary health under the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, identifying four priority themes: risk identification, socio-environmental drivers, governance, and technology innovation to address environmental health threats.
A planetary health perspective on menstruation: menstrual equity and climate action
This planetary health review highlights how conventional menstrual hygiene products generate significant plastic waste and contain potentially harmful chemicals, while many people worldwide lack adequate access to menstrual products. Reusable and sustainable alternatives could simultaneously address menstrual equity and reduce environmental plastic pollution.
Building Capabilities for Earth System Governance
This work developed a Strategic Capabilities Framework for studying and steering complex socio-ecological systems, addressing the question of what capabilities are most essential for effective Earth system governance. The framework identifies core competencies needed to respond to 21st-century environmental challenges including climate change and biodiversity loss.
Sustainability within a global environmental change context
This book chapter summarizes the key human drivers of environmental change—including plastic and microplastic pollution—and introduces ecosystem services as the framework for understanding how human activities disrupt the natural systems that sustain life. It provides conceptual context for sustainability education rather than original empirical findings.
A planetary vision for one health
This planetary health perspective synthesized findings from the 2015 Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission report on human health in the Anthropocene, identifying climate change, deforestation, ocean acidification, zoonotic disease, biodiversity loss, and air pollution as interconnected threats to human wellbeing. The authors call for immediate, evidence-based cross-disciplinary policy responses to address planetary boundaries that underpin human health.
Systematic literature review: a typology of Sustainability Literacy and Environmental Literacy
This systematic literature review develops a typology of sustainability literacy and environmental education frameworks, mapping how different educational approaches define and measure student competencies related to ecological awareness and sustainable behavior.
When I say …. Planetary Health
This commentary explores the concept of planetary health, which examines the connections between human civilization and the natural systems on which it depends. The author argues for a shared understanding of the term to advance research and action on environmental and health challenges. The piece emphasizes the urgency of addressing threats like pollution and ecosystem degradation that affect both the planet and human well-being.
Planetary health and non-communicable diseases—A converging global crisis
This review examines the convergence of environmental degradation and the global rise in non-communicable diseases, identifying microplastics as one of several environmental pollutants contributing to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and chronic respiratory conditions. The authors argue that addressing plastic pollution is integral to a planetary health approach to disease prevention.
From the Ecological Crisis of the Anthropocene to the Ecological Transition
This philosophical and scientific paper frames the current environmental crisis as an Anthropocene crisis involving not just climate change but the destabilization of the entire Earth system, including plastic pollution and biodiversity loss. The author argues that ecological transition requires systemic change in human-nature relationships.
A Framework for Deep Resilience in the Anthropocene
This paper presents a framework for building resilience at the individual, community, and planetary levels, developed through a summit of over 40 researchers, psychologists, and community leaders. The authors argue that addressing the current environmental crisis requires integrating inner well-being with broader ecological and social resilience. The framework is intended to guide organizations and governments in making decisions that account for the interconnected nature of human and environmental health.
A multidisciplinary perspective on the role of plastic pollution in the triple planetary crisis.
This perspective paper argues that plastics are a central driver of all three dimensions of the planetary crisis — pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss — and must be addressed with the same urgency as carbon emissions. The authors call for a multidisciplinary approach that recognizes plastics as a systemic environmental threat rather than a siloed waste management issue.
Ecological transition and health: the role of physicians and healthcare
This perspective article examines the role of physicians and healthcare workers in addressing climate change and pollution as major public health threats, including microplastics, PFAS, and fine particulate matter. It argues that the medical community must move beyond disease treatment to advocate for reduced fossil fuel use and sustainable healthcare policies.
Systems Thinking Research in Science and Sustainability Education: A Theoretical Note
This theoretical review examined systems thinking in science and sustainability education, critically analyzing the contradictions within sustainable development education and arguing that truly transformative environmental education must challenge anthropocentric assumptions embedded in SDG frameworks.
Sustainable Future Green School Ecology: Prevents Future-Pandemic Improving Biomedicines-Physiology Health Technology Biodiversity World Policy Development Studies
This paper argues that schools need to integrate green ecology education into curricula to prepare students for future pandemic prevention, linking microplastic contamination of freshwater systems to pathogen vectors that can compromise human gut health and overall immune function.