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ClearRedefining Ecological Engineering in the Context of Circular Economy and Sustainable Development
This conceptual paper proposed a redefined framework for ecological engineering grounded in circular economy principles, arguing that engineering interventions in natural systems should aim to close material loops and enhance ecosystem services rather than simply solving pollution problems after the fact.
Ecological Restoration of Earth's Ecosystem and the Decade of Ecosystem Restoration
This review examined the growing field of ecological restoration, arguing that restoring degraded ecosystems is essential for addressing climate change and biodiversity loss. Reducing plastic and microplastic pollution is highlighted as a necessary component of broader ecosystem restoration goals.
Air, Water, and Soil Pollution: Engineering Approaches for Remediation
This book examines engineering approaches to the remediation of air, water, and soil pollution, serving as an educational reference text rather than a primary research study.
Современное состояние и тенденции в экологической биотехнологии
This review examines the current state and trends in environmental biotechnology for achieving sustainable development goals, covering biotechnological approaches for remediating soil, water, and air from persistent and hazardous pollutants, with a dedicated chapter on the utilization and remediation of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems contaminated with synthetic materials including microplastics.
Maximizing Benefits to Nature and Society in Techno-Ecological Innovation for Water
This review advocates for nature-based solutions in water management, arguing that integrating ecological approaches alongside conventional engineering can maximize benefits for both biodiversity and human water security.
Sustainability Principles and Practice
This textbook provided an accessible and comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability, covering conceptual understanding and technical skills across topics including plastic pollution, ecosystem management, and pathways toward sustainable systems.
Pollution and Environmental Engineering: Strategies for a Cleaner Future
This book covers pollution and environmental engineering strategies aimed at achieving cleaner industrial and environmental outcomes, serving as an educational reference text rather than a primary research study.
Re-Use Aesthetics and the Architectural Roots of Ecological Crisis
This paper explores the architectural roots of ecological aesthetics and reuse culture, arguing that adaptive reuse of materials including plastic waste has historical precedent in architecture that can inform contemporary sustainable design. The author links material reuse practices to broader ecological thinking in design.
Regenerative Product Design: a Literature Review in an Emerging Field
This literature review examines the emerging field of regenerative product design, exploring how materials and systems can be designed to repair, recreate, or revitalize their own resources at local, regional, and global scales. The authors analyze how regenerative principles differ from sustainability and circular economy frameworks and what they mean for material selection, user behavior, and product interaction.
Industrial ecology for the oceans
This review examines the principles of industrial ecology as applied to ocean resource management, discussing historical and contemporary challenges of human interaction with marine environments. The paper addresses how industrial ecology frameworks can inform more sustainable approaches to fisheries, shipping, and marine resource use while contending with pollution challenges including microplastics and oil spills.
Translating New Synthetic Biology Advances for Biosensing Into the Earth and Environmental Sciences
This review explores how emerging synthetic biology tools including engineered microbial biosensors can be applied to longstanding problems in environmental and earth sciences, such as detecting pollutants, tracking biogeochemical cycles, and monitoring ecosystem health.
Microplastics: addressing ecological risk through lessons learned
Researchers reviewed the current state of microplastic ecological risk assessment and proposed applying lessons learned from more established fields of environmental research. The study suggests that despite widespread concern about microplastic pollution, scientific understanding of actual ecological risk remains limited, and future research should follow more rigorous risk assessment frameworks.
Social fields and natural systems: integrating knowledge about society and nature
This theoretical paper proposes combining sociological field theory with systems thinking to better analyze sustainability challenges. The integrated approach could help researchers understand how social structures shape human responses to environmental problems like plastic pollution.
Remediation Strategies for Soil and Water
This review examines remediation strategies for soil and water contaminated by industrial pollutants, surveying physical, chemical, and biological approaches to address the growing challenge of environmental decontamination driven by rapid global industrial development.
Application of Remote Sensing Technology in Ecological Engineering—A Case Study of Phase I Tao River Water Diversion Project
Researchers used remote sensing satellite imagery to monitor ecological restoration and erosion control during a large Chinese water diversion project. While focused on construction impacts, remote sensing methods are also being developed to detect and map microplastic pollution from satellite data.
Microplastics in ecosystems: ecotoxicological threats and strategies for mitigation and governance
This review provides a broad assessment of microplastic pollution across ecosystems, covering sources, detection methods, ecological impacts, and cleanup strategies. The study highlights recent advances including AI-enhanced detection tools and microbe-based degradation approaches, and proposes a roadmap for working toward microplastic-free environments through coordinated scientific and policy action.
A Roadmap for Integrating Sustainability into Software Engineering Education
This paper presents a roadmap for integrating sustainability principles into software engineering education, outlining how curricula can be redesigned to equip future developers with the knowledge to build environmentally and socially responsible software systems.
Current Trends and Future Perspectives in the Remediation of Polluted Water, Soil and Air—A Review
This review surveys current and emerging remediation techniques for polluted water, soil, and air, including biological, chemical, and physical approaches. The study suggests that biological remediation methods are generally the most environmentally friendly, though the complexity of mixed pollutant compositions often requires combining multiple techniques for effective cleanup.
Translation of Green Infrastructure for Stormwater Mitigation and Pollution Control Research into Engineering Education
This presentation introduces PhD research focused on translating green infrastructure approaches for stormwater mitigation and pollution control, drawing on expertise in water quality, water and wastewater treatment, and soil remediation.
Microplastics Pollution and its Remediation
This publication reviews the growing problem of microplastic pollution in the environment and explores biological and technological strategies for remediation, including microbial degradation and engineered solutions. It highlights the urgent need for practical cleanup approaches as microplastics continue to accumulate across ecosystems worldwide.
Reconciling Waste Management and Ecological Economics
Researchers examined how the concept of the "circular economy" — designing products and systems to minimize waste — fits within ecological economics, which emphasizes physical limits like energy and material flows. The chapter argues that effective waste management policies, such as landfill taxes, extended producer responsibility, and deposit-refund schemes, must align environmental costs with economic incentives to achieve meaningful sustainability gains.
Design of an Urban Domestic Waste Landfill Based on Aerial Image Segmentation and Ecological Restoration Theory
This paper proposes a method combining aerial image segmentation with ecological restoration principles to design better urban landfills. Improved landfill design reduces plastic waste leakage into surrounding environments, where it can fragment into microplastics that enter waterways.
Microplastics in ecosystems: their implications and mitigation pathways
This review examined the implications of microplastic pollution across terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and outlined mitigation pathways to address this emerging environmental threat.
Societal Relations to Nature in Times of Crisis—Social Ecology’s Contributions to Interdisciplinary Sustainability Studies
This review article examined how social ecology — an interdisciplinary field — approaches the crisis of societal relationships with nature, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. It provides theoretical frameworks relevant to understanding why plastic pollution persists despite growing awareness of its harms.