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ClearThe (in)compatibility of the Ecological Modernization Theory and Consumer Society
This review examines the compatibility between ecological modernization theory and consumer society, critically assessing whether economic growth and environmental protection can coexist through technological progress and green industry development. The authors find inherent tensions between the theory's assumptions and the consumption patterns that drive ecological degradation.
Research on Application of Environmental Protection Concept in Modern Product Design
This paper explores how principles of environmental sustainability are being integrated into modern product design, examining how green design concepts can reduce ecological impact while meeting consumer needs. The analysis calls for applying low-carbon, circular economy values throughout the product development process.
A New Philosophy for Sustainable Consumerism
This article discusses the challenge of reconciling sustainability goals with growth-based economies, using microplastic entry into the food chain as one example of the environmental costs of current consumption patterns. The author proposes a theoretical framework for enabling economic growth while maintaining long-term planetary health.
Exilic Ecologies
This philosophical essay argues that ecology must be rethought for a world where every ecosystem is subject to disruption and displacement. The author proposes the concept of exilic ecologies to describe how no environment can be considered stable or pristine in the modern era.
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.
Economy or Environment? Sustainability from a Political Economy Perspective
This review examines environmental sustainability challenges from a political economy perspective, tracing the history of economic pressures on ecosystems from the mid-19th century to the present and evaluating theoretical frameworks and sustainability indicators used to monitor and limit the growing impact of economic systems on the natural environment.
Seeking Philosophical Foundations for Ecological Civilization: Natural Theology East and West
This philosophical paper explores the ecological and spiritual foundations needed to support sustainable civilization, arguing that environmental crises stem partly from a breakdown in humanity's relationship with nature. It contextualizes pollution challenges like microplastics within a broader ethical framework.
At Home in an Unhomely World: on Living with Waste
This philosophical essay explores what it means to live in a world permeated by modern waste—microplastics in water, chemicals in soil, particles in air—and argues that society must learn to coexist with pollution rather than simply trying to eliminate it. It raises important ethical and existential questions about environmental contamination.
A New Philosophy For Sustainable Consumerism
This paper proposed a new philosophy for sustainable consumerism in response to growing awareness of unsustainable practices, including the entry of microplastics into the food chain. The framework argued that businesses and governments must respond to consumer and community pressure by structurally shifting toward sustainable production and consumption models.
Environmental sustainability from the perspective of political economy
Not relevant to microplastics — this book chapter takes a political economy perspective on environmental sustainability, discussing climate change, biodiversity loss, and plastic pollution at a broad policy and philosophical level rather than conducting original microplastics research.
Environmental issues resulting from scientific and technical progress
This article argues that unrestrained technological and scientific progress has created global environmental crises that now threaten life on Earth, emphasizing the urgency of rethinking humanity's relationship with nature. Plastic pollution and microplastics are among the key environmental consequences discussed.
A Review of the Roots of Ecological Engineering and its Principles
This review traces the historical roots and guiding principles of ecological engineering, a multidisciplinary field focused on designing sustainable ecosystems and restoring degraded natural habitats. The study highlights how ecological engineering integrates scientific knowledge with practical applications to address environmental challenges including pollution and habitat loss.
Global Ocean Governance and Ecological Civilization
This study examines global ocean governance frameworks and argues that achieving 'ecological civilization' requires coordinated international responses to mounting threats including climate change, ocean acidification, microplastic pollution, and overexploitation of marine resources.
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.
Redefining 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.
Wisdom Local Tegal City Communities in the Modernization Era and Strategies to Maintain It
This study documents the local ecological wisdom of indigenous communities in Tegal City, Indonesia, examining how traditional environmental knowledge and practices are being challenged by modernization. The authors identify strategies for preserving this knowledge as part of broader efforts to maintain cultural identity and sustainable land management.
Meaning in Anthropocene Life
This is a conference proceedings summary featuring presentations on finding meaning in life during the Anthropocene, including perspectives from psychology, theology, and philosophy addressing climate change, environmental guilt, and existential responses to ecological crisis; it does not present original empirical research on microplastics.
The Malthusian Trap: A Modern Framework for Population Growth and Climate-Induced Resource Scarcity
This theoretical paper updates the Malthusian Trap concept for the 21st century, arguing that climate change, microplastic pollution, and resource scarcity are creating new existential pressures on human populations beyond simply food production.
Integrated Ecological Risk Assessment of the Agricultural Area under a High Anthropopressure Based on Chemical, Ecotoxicological and Ecological Indicators
Researchers conducted an integrated ecological risk assessment of agricultural land using chemical, ecotoxicological, and ecological indicators, finding that while chemical analysis overestimated risk, the combined approach revealed most of the area had acceptable risk levels despite over a century of anthropogenic pressure.
Homo sapiens, industrialisation and the environmental mismatch hypothesis
This paper argues that the rapid pace of industrialization has created an environmental mismatch between the conditions humans evolved for and modern environments, using evolutionary biology to frame how pollution, urbanization, and ecosystem degradation affect human health.
Food Chains, Ecosystems and Myths: A Lasting Anthropological Concern
This anthropological review traces the long history of ecosystem thinking in anthropology before the rise of modern environmentalism, examining how cultural practices have evolved to manage sustainable human-environment interactions through food chains and ecological feedback loops.
Seeing microplastic clouds: Using ecomedia literacy for digital technology in environmental education
This article introduces ecomedia literacy as a pedagogical framework for environmental education, using microplastic pollution as a case study to help students analyze digital technologies through four interconnected lenses: ecoculture, political ecology, ecomateriality, and systems thinking.
Anthropocene Modernisms: Ecological Expressions of the "Human Age" in Eliot, Williams, Toomer, and Woolf
This literary dissertation examines how early 20th-century authors expressed ecological themes related to the Anthropocene concept. This is a humanities study with no connection to microplastics or environmental science.
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.