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Knowing the Ocean: Epistemic Inequalities in Patterns of Science Collaboration

This study examines epistemic inequalities in ocean governance, arguing that historically dominant Western scientific knowledge systems have marginalized Indigenous and local knowledge, limiting both social justice and the quality of marine policy decisions.

2023 MARE publication series 9 citations
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Educación para la Justicia Ambiental en una Provincia Despoblada: Percepciones y Propuestas

Researchers compared urban and rural secondary school students in a depopulated Spanish province in terms of their perceptions and proposals following an environmental justice education sequence on energy crisis and atmospheric pollution, using a mixed-methods approach with 85 participants to evaluate how place-based context shapes environmental awareness.

2024 Revista Internacional de Educación para la Justicia Social
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Politics of Resilience-Building: Explorations of Community-Based Interventions in Trinidad and Tobago

Researchers used a decolonial framework and semi-structured interviews with nine governmental and non-governmental actors in Trinidad and Tobago to explore factors shaping community-based climate change resilience. Thematic analysis identified community resilience as driven by bottom-up participatory initiatives emphasizing access, co-creation, and principles counter to top-down technocratic approaches.

2025 The Canadian Journal of Action Research
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Social Inequalities of Climate Change With a Regional and Global Approach

This paper examines the social inequalities created by climate change, arguing that its effects disproportionately harm lower-income and marginalized communities. The analysis connects climate change, environmental pollution, and systemic inequity as linked challenges requiring coordinated global responses.

2023 Health in Emergencies & Disasters Quarterly 1 citations
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Peran Masyarakat Akar Rumput dalam Menangani Permasalahan Sampah Galon Sekali Pakai

This Indonesian-language study examines the role of grassroots community organizations in managing the growing plastic waste problem posed by single-use disposable water gallons, analyzing community networks and the challenges they face in influencing producer behavior and policy.

2023 1 citations
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Transdisciplinary research: if it's so important, why aren't we all doing it?

This Dutch paper advocates for transdisciplinary research as an essential approach for tackling complex environmental challenges, describing practical steps for collaboration between academic and applied researchers.

2023 TNO Repository
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Conducting Research in a Post-normal Paradigm: Practical Guidance for Applying Co-production of Knowledge

This review provides practical guidance for applying co-production of knowledge in environmental research, addressing challenges of meaningful scientist-stakeholder engagement to increase public participation and scientific relevance.

2021 Frontiers in Environmental Science 29 citations
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Helping to heal nature and ourselves through human-rights-based and gender-responsive One Health

Researchers argue that the One Health framework — which connects human, animal, and environmental health — fails to adequately address gender inequality, showing that women and Indigenous communities bear a disproportionate burden from environmental degradation and disease while holding critical roles in biodiversity conservation. They propose a rights-based, gender-responsive version of One Health to better address these inequities.

2020 One Health Outlook 54 citations
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Alternative Conservation Paradigms and Ecological Knowledge of Small-Scale Artisanal Fishers in a Changing Marine Scenario in Argentina

Researchers used ethnographic interviews to document the ecological knowledge and conservation paradigms of small-scale artisanal fishers in Argentina's Bahía Blanca Estuary, finding that fishers held a communalist worldview and detailed knowledge of climate-driven and pollution-related changes that could meaningfully inform co-management strategies.

2022 Human Ecology 14 citations
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Zero Waste––Zero Justice?

This critical essay examines the zero waste movement through a social justice lens, asking whose voices and realities are centered in anti-plastic activism and whose are marginalized. It argues that reducing plastic pollution must address systemic inequalities as well as individual consumption choices.

2020 Engaging Science Technology and Society 9 citations
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Participatory Social Mapping with Ethnic Communities to Identify Factors Associated With Microplastics in a Protected Area on the Northern Coast Of Colombia

Researchers used participatory social mapping with Indigenous and ethnic communities in a protected coastal area of Colombia to identify local hotspots of microplastic contamination, including wastewater discharge points and waste dumping sites, demonstrating that community knowledge is a valuable tool for environmental monitoring.

2025 Proceedings of the International Conference on Environmental Science and Applications, ICESA ...
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Decolonising Science Communication in the Caribbean: Challenges and Transformations in Community-Based Engagement with Research on the ABCSSS Islands

Not relevant to microplastics — this chapter explores science communication challenges and colonial legacies affecting nature conservation and mental health research in Caribbean island territories.

2023 Bristol University Press eBooks
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The Role Of Woman To Protect Marine Plastic Waste In Sukabumi In Environmental Law Perspective  (Study Case  In Coastal Area In Pelabuhan Ratu)

This paper examines women's roles in marine plastic waste management in coastal Sukabumi, Indonesia, from an environmental law perspective. It argues that because women have close relationships with coastal environments and resources, they are essential agents for reducing plastic and microplastic pollution in marine ecosystems, and calls for legal frameworks that empower women's environmental stewardship.

2025 KRTHA BHAYANGKARA
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Tangled Waters: Equity-based Study of Plastic Pollution Impacts on Indigenous Communities in Fiji

Researchers examined the impacts of plastic pollution on Indigenous communities at three case study locations in Fiji, blending Indigenous knowledge systems with contemporary research methods and equity frameworks to assess distributional, procedural, and recognitional dimensions of plastic pollution. The year-long fieldwork-based study found that plastic pollution disproportionately burdens Indigenous communities and recommended improved waste management solutions grounded in community agency.

2024 ScholarSpace (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
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Global distribution and coincidence of pollution, climate impacts, and health risk in the Anthropocene

Researchers analyzed the relationship between toxic pollution and climate change risk across 176 countries and found a strong correlation between the two. Low-income countries faced disproportionately higher risks from both pollution and climate impacts, while also having the least institutional capacity to respond. The study argues that pollution and climate change should be addressed jointly rather than independently, as they often affect the same vulnerable populations.

2021 PLoS ONE 50 citations
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Bisikan atau Suara Lantang: Perjalanan Advokasi Kebijakan Larangan Penggunaan Plastik Sekali-Pakai Melalui Partisipasi Pemuda di Provinsi DKI Jakarta dan Bali

This Indonesian study examines youth-led policy advocacy for banning single-use plastics as part of climate and environmental action, analyzing how young people engage with democratic policy processes. The case illustrates grassroots mechanisms for building political support for plastic reduction regulations.

2023 Jurnal Studi Pemuda 1 citations
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A Strategic Framework for Community Engagement in Oceans and Human Health

This paper presents a strategic framework for community engagement in the Oceans and Human Health field, reviewing how participatory research approaches can connect coastal communities with scientists to address marine environmental threats including plastic pollution. The framework emphasizes co-production of knowledge as essential for translating ocean health research into effective public health responses.

2022 Community Science 10 citations
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Addressing the Climate Crisis

This essay reflects on plastic pollution as a global justice issue through the author's fieldwork in rural Guatemala, where communities burn plastic waste in cooking fires due to lack of sanitation infrastructure, releasing toxic fumes and microplastics into the air and water. The author argues that plastic pollution is driven by corporate and colonial forces and calls for upstream policy solutions beyond individual community action.

2021 19 citations
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Pembersihan Sampah Di Pantai Lagunci Dan Pengaruhnya Terhadap Kepedulian Lingkungan Pemuda Usia SMP Di Desa Bahari III Kabupaten Buton Selatan

This community outreach study from Indonesia assessed the impact of beach cleanup activities at Lagunci Beach on environmental awareness among local residents, finding that participatory cleanup events increased ecological knowledge and pro-environmental behavior.

2025 Lumbung Inovasi Jurnal Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat
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Community-Engaged Research Projects in School Settings: Science Teachers’ Practices and Reflections

Not relevant to microplastics — this education research study analyzes how nine teachers implemented community-engaged research projects addressing environmental justice issues in their classrooms, focusing on pedagogy, student empowerment, and institutional challenges.

2024 Social Sciences 2 citations
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Cultural Narratives in Environmental Activism

This review examines how cultural narratives rooted in local identity, spirituality, dispossession, and collective memory shape environmental activism and ecological policymaking across diverse global contexts. Drawing on case studies and historical trajectories, the paper finds that community storytelling and historical reinterpretation drive grassroots mobilization and challenge technocratic environmental governance frameworks.

2025 IDOSR JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION AND ENGLISH
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Indigenous Art and Sovereignty Inspiring Change against Environmental Degradation

This review examines how Indigenous artists and writers from the Pacific Islands, Australia, French Guiana, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia engage with environmental degradation and plastic pollution through creative practices rooted in sovereignty and cultural identity. The authors argue that Indigenous artistic practices offer alternative frameworks for imagining sustainable coexistence with the environment and responding to the legacy of colonisation.

2020 eTropic electronic journal of studies in the tropics 12 citations
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Affecting Factors on Community Based Mangrove Replantation Programs in Semarang Coastal Area

This study examined community-based mangrove replanting programs in Semarang, Indonesia, exploring how climate change and stakeholder dynamics affect participation. It is an environmental management study not focused on microplastics.

2020 The Indonesian Journal of Planning and Development 1 citations
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Plastic Suffocation: Climate Change Threatens Indigenous Populations and Traditional Ecological Knowledge

This policy paper argues that Indigenous communities bear a disproportionate burden from plastic pollution and associated climate change effects, particularly through contamination of traditional marine food systems. The author argues that plastic waste threatens traditional ecological knowledge and cultural practices tied to healthy ocean environments.

2019 Journal of Marine and Island Cultures 16 citations