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ClearSystem Dynamics Modeling for Effective Strategies in Water Pollution Control: Insights and Applications
Researchers applied system dynamics modeling to simulate how different waste disposal scenarios affect water pollution, particularly from dumping waste into the sea. The approach uses feedback loops and cause-and-effect relationships to predict long-term environmental and health impacts. The study suggests that this modeling technique can help policymakers develop more effective strategies for managing marine waste and protecting water quality.
Sustainable Plastic Waste Management Using a System Dynamics Approach
This study used system dynamics modeling to analyze municipal solid plastic waste management, simulating how different policy interventions affect waste generation, recycling, and environmental leakage over time. Understanding the dynamics of plastic waste systems helps identify the most effective points for intervention to reduce microplastic pollution.
Necessity to Assess the Sustainability of Sensitive Ecosystems: A Comprehensive Review of Tourism Pressures and the Travel Cost Method
This paper is not about microplastics; it reviews the travel cost method as an economic tool for valuing sensitive aquatic ecosystems, with a focus on sustainable tourism management.
The Impact of Water Pollution Caused by Plastic Waste: A Threat to Ecosystems and Health
This review investigates how microplastics and larger plastic waste contaminate water bodies, disrupt aquatic life, damage biodiversity, and enter food chains, posing risks to both ecosystems and human health. The study uses a quantitative approach to assess pollution impacts and presents strategies including reduced plastic use, improved waste disposal, and promotion of sustainable alternatives.
Assessing the Environmental Impact of Plastic Pollution in Tourism: A Bibliometric Analysis
This review used bibliometric analysis to map research trends on the environmental impact of plastic pollution in tourism-dependent regions, identifying leading academic disciplines, influential authors, and key themes in the literature.
Theoretical framework for assessing the economic and environmental impact of water pollution: A detailed study on sustainable development of India
This paper presents a framework for assessing the economic and environmental costs of water pollution, including the impact of emerging contaminants like microplastics. It argues that current pollution cleanup strategies often overlook long-term economic losses from contaminated water, including healthcare costs. The framework could help policymakers make better decisions about investing in water treatment to reduce human exposure to pollutants including microplastics.
The effect of tourism on microplastic pollution amount in Baltic Sea Region lakes
Researchers measured microplastic pollution in surface water and sediments from 10 lakes in Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland across spring, summer, and autumn 2023, finding that tourism pressure in lake catchment areas correlates with elevated microplastic contamination levels.
Applications of mathematical modelling for assessing microplastic transport and fate in water environments: a comparative review
This systematic review evaluates mathematical models used to predict how microplastics move through and accumulate in water systems. Better models help scientists understand where microplastics end up in the environment and, ultimately, how they might reach drinking water sources and affect human exposure.
Environmental Impact of Plastic Waste: Strategies for Sustainable Management
This systematic review summarizes the environmental and health impacts of plastic waste and evaluates strategies for sustainable management. It highlights that plastic pollution threatens ecosystems and human health through microplastic contamination, and examines approaches like recycling, biodegradable alternatives, and policy interventions to reduce exposure.
The Nexus between Tourism Activities and Environmental Degradation: Romanian Tourists’ Opinions
Researchers used structural equation modeling to analyze Romanian tourists' perceptions of the environmental impacts of tourism activities, finding significant relationships between tourist circulation, accommodation, entertainment, and environmental degradation including waste generation, water pollution, and biodiversity loss.
Microplastics in Aquatic Environments: Sources, Environmental Impacts, Detection Methods, Mitigation Strategies, and Policy Development — A Systematic Review
This systematic review summarizes what we know about microplastics in water — where they come from, how they spread, and the risks they pose to ecosystems and human health. It highlights that wastewater, urban runoff, and air are the main ways microplastics travel, and calls for better global policies and monitoring standards.
Microplastics in aquatic ecosystems: Detection, source tracing, and sustainable management strategies
This review paper summarizes what we know about microplastics in water environments, including how they spread, how to detect them, and how to manage the problem. It highlights that microplastics can carry toxic substances and calls for stronger global policies and new cleanup methods like biodegradation to protect ecosystems and human health.
Does tourism enhance microplastic pollution in the ecologically critical areas of Bangladesh? Evidence from Tanguar Haor, Kaptai Lake, and the Sundarbans
Researchers assessed microplastic pollution at three prominent tourist destinations in Bangladesh—Tanguar Haor, Kaptai Lake, and the Sundarbans—finding 3–25 particles per liter, with PETE most common and contamination levels correlating with tourism activity and proximity to human pollution sources.
Macro impacts of plastic pollution in Ghana
Researchers applied qualitative system dynamics causal modelling to assess the macro-level impacts of plastic pollution in Ghana and West Africa, constructing a hierarchical framework linking high-level and low-level pollution effects across environmental, economic, and social dimensions. The systems thinking approach aims to inform effective policy development for preventing and mitigating plastic pollution in the region.
Environmental Impact of Microplastics in Aquatic Ecosystems: A Review of Current Research and Future Directions
This review examines microplastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems, covering chemical, biological, and ecological processes beyond simple physical contamination and identifying priority areas for future research directions.
The Microplastic Cycle: An Introduction to a Complex Issue
This study introduces and expands the microplastic cycle concept as a framework for understanding how plastic particles move across ecosystem reservoirs, connecting source-receptor models with the fate, transport, and effects of plastic pollution.
Tackling Water and Waste Management Challenges Within the Tourism and Hospitality Industry: A Sustainable Development Goals Perspective
This paper reviewed water and waste management challenges specific to tourism and hospitality industries, examining how hotels, resorts, and tourism infrastructure generate and mismanage water and solid waste. It proposed strategies for sustainable waste management within these high-impact sectors.
Investigating the Role of Tourists and Impact of Knowledge, Behaviour, and Attitude Towards Plastic Waste Generation
Researchers surveyed tourists to assess how their knowledge, attitudes, and behavior influence plastic waste generation at outdoor recreation sites, finding that awareness gaps drive littering and that circular economy approaches could convert tourist-generated waste into local economic opportunity.
International Marine Tourism
Not relevant to microplastics — this bibliometric analysis examines trends in international marine tourism research in the context of sustainable development, with no substantive focus on plastic or microplastic pollution.
Plastic Pollution is a Serious Menace to Ecosystem Health with Special Reference to Aquatic Ecosystems and its Associated Challenges, Opportunities, and Mitigations
This review examines how plastic pollution, including microplastics, threatens aquatic ecosystem health, affecting fish, birds, and mammals through ingestion, entanglement, and chemical exposure. Researchers highlighted that our understanding of microplastic dynamics — their release, retention, accumulation, and transfer across ecosystems — remains limited. The study calls for more research into the long-term ecological consequences of microplastic contamination in aquatic environments.
Linking the Tourism Activity to the Occurrence and Distribution of Microplastics
Researchers assessed microplastic abundance, type, and spatial distribution in coastal water, sediments, and fish across three zones of Gili Trawangan, Indonesia, finding that tourism-related activities concentrated microplastics at recreational beaches with concentrations reaching 19.25 particles/L.
Marine plastic pollution: A systematic review of management strategies through a macroscope approach
Researchers applied a systems-level framework to review 176 studies on marine plastic pollution management, finding that waste collection infrastructure and freshwater pathways are critically understudied and that no existing strategy — from beach cleanup to biomaterials — is scalable enough to meaningfully reverse the plastic crisis.
Water and health: From environmental pressures to integrated responses
This paper analyzes how water pollution, including plastic contamination, affects human health using a Drivers-Pressures-State-Impacts-Responses framework combined with a literature review. Researchers found that while the pathways from pollution sources to health impacts differ greatly for chemicals, pathogens, and plastics, the potential water management responses share remarkable similarities. The study argues that integrated water resource management can simultaneously address multiple health threats, including those posed by microplastic pollution.
The effect of tourism on microplastic pollution amount in Baltic Sea Region lakes
Researchers measured microplastic pollution in surface water and sediments from 10 lakes in Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland across spring, summer, and autumn 2023, investigating whether tourism pressure in lake catchment areas correlates with microplastic contamination levels. They found microplastics in all samples, with surface water concentrations ranging from 0.56 to 38.53 particles per cubic meter depending on country and season, and observed that lakes with higher tourist activity tended to show elevated microplastic loads.