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This review systematically assessed the relationship between environmental aesthetics (green and blue spaces) and human health, finding only 19 qualifying studies in the literature and none that adequately evaluated how remediation or restoration efforts impact community health outcomes. The authors identified a critical gap between the well-supported link connecting greenspace proximity to health benefits and the absence of research on quality improvements.
The Non-Linear Impact of Green Space Recreational Service Performance on Residents’ Emotional States in High-Density Cities
Researchers assessed green space recreational service performance in high-density Chinese cities and modeled its non-linear relationship with residents' emotional well-being. They found that moderate green space quality and accessibility had the strongest positive effects on emotional health, with diminishing returns at very high provision levels, informing urban park planning priorities.
Wasting the Restorative Potential: Influences of Plastic and Biowaste on Psychological Restoration After Real, Virtual, and Imagined Walks
Researchers conducted three studies examining how plastic litter and biowaste in natural environments diminish the psychological restorative benefits of spending time in nature, finding that even imagined or virtually depicted litter reduced positive affect and perceived restoration. The findings highlight pollution as a threat not only to ecological health but also to human mental wellbeing.
An Investigation into the Evaluation and Optimisation Method of Environmental Art Design based on Image Processing and Computer Vision
This paper explores using computer vision and image processing to evaluate environmental art and design installations. It is not related to microplastics or environmental health research. The study focuses entirely on algorithms for assessing visual aesthetics and audience engagement with art.
Cognition and Interaction: From the Perspective of Daily Therapeutic Landscape of the Coastal Zone
Researchers investigated the therapeutic landscape function of a coastal zone in Xinglin Bay using mixed qualitative and quantitative methods with local residents, finding that visit frequency was a significant variable affecting physical and mental therapeutic perceptions, with higher significance for female residents. Qualitative text analysis revealed that ecological restoration of water quality and presence of migratory birds were important contributors to residents' sense of place.
Açık Alan Rekreasyonu ve Ekolojik Etkileşim
This work examines outdoor recreational activity in relation to ecological interaction, addressing the intersection of human leisure behaviour and natural environments.
Analyzing the Application and Ecological Value of Green Roofs in Urban Environmental Art Design
This study analyzes the ecological and aesthetic functions of green roofs in urban environmental art design, examining their roles in pollutant adsorption, urban heat island mitigation, and rooftop agriculture, and discussing cost and technical barriers to wider adoption.
Aquatic ecosystem indices, linking ecosystem health to human health risks
Researchers reviewed indicators used to assess aquatic ecosystem health and found that most existing tools don't adequately capture the risks that degraded water ecosystems pose to human health and well-being. They propose a new set of combined indicators — covering chemical contaminants, pathogens, and biological markers — to better link ecosystem health monitoring to human health outcomes.
Making waves: Lessons learned from the COVID-19 anthropause in the Netherlands on urban aquatic ecosystem services provisioning and management
Researchers studied how COVID-19 lockdowns affected urban water ecosystems in the Netherlands, finding that reduced boat traffic improved canal water clarity while increased recreational use of parks and swimming areas raised concerns about ecosystem stress — offering management lessons for balancing human use with ecological protection.
Environmental Impacts on Human Health
This review examines the relationship between environmental conditions and human health through scientific, philosophical, and Islamic perspectives, comparing how environmental factors affect human wellbeing and how human activities in turn degrade the natural environment.
Linking coastal environmental and health observations for human wellbeing
This paper proposes a framework for linking coastal environmental monitoring data with human health observations to create integrated coastal health indicators, identifying locations where climate change and pollution may create hotspots of health concern. The approach aims to improve understanding of how coastal environmental quality affects human wellbeing.
Cognition and Interaction: From the Perspective of Daily Therapeutic Landscape of the Coastal Zone
Researchers explored the therapeutic effects of the coastal zone on residents of Xinglin Bay using qualitative and quantitative methods, examining man-environment relationships, sense of place, and symbolic landscapes. The study found that frequency of visits was a key variable affecting physical and mental therapeutic perceptions, with regular visitors more able to evoke memories and articulate therapeutic experiences.
Knowledge gaps and opportunities in water-quality drivers of aquatic ecosystem health
This report identifies major gaps in scientific understanding of how water quality factors affect the health of aquatic ecosystems. Researchers highlight challenges including nutrient cycling, emerging contaminants like microplastics and pharmaceuticals, and the need for better monitoring tools. The study proposes new research approaches to improve predictions about how water quality changes impact freshwater and coastal environments.
Aligning Ocean Plastic Pollution and Human Health a Co-benefits Approach
This paper proposes a co-benefits approach to aligning ocean plastic pollution policy with human health outcomes, arguing that reducing plastic in the environment would simultaneously benefit marine ecosystems and human wellbeing. It calls for stronger integration of environmental and health frameworks in policy decisions.
Impacts of land use/land cover on water quality: a contemporary review for researchers and policymakers
This review examines how different land uses, from farming to urban development, affect water quality through diffuse pollution. Natural vegetation acts as a protective buffer against contamination, but more research is needed to determine how much vegetation is required to effectively filter pollutants. The findings are relevant to microplastic pollution because urban runoff and agricultural land use are major pathways by which microplastics enter drinking water sources.
Does Individuals’ Perception of Wastewater Pollution Decrease Their Self-Rated Health? Evidence from China
Researchers found that individuals in China who perceive higher levels of local wastewater pollution report significantly lower self-rated health, using large-scale survey data from all 31 provinces to quantify the associations between environmental pollution perception and subjective health outcomes.
Development of Ecosystem Health Assessment (EHA) and Application Method: A Review
This review traces the development of ecosystem health assessment methods, comparing biological indicator approaches and index system methods and analyzing how they have been applied to assess the health of aquatic, terrestrial, and urban ecosystems under anthropogenic stress.
Changing Views of the Interconnections Between the Oceans and Human Health in Europe
Researchers traced the emergence of 'Oceans and Human Health' as a research discipline, comparing US and European approaches to studying how marine environments affect human wellbeing, and outlined priorities for interdisciplinary research and early-warning horizon scanning for emerging ocean-related health threats.
Plastic effects on marine and freshwater environments
Researchers reviewed current literature on how plastic pollution harms marine and freshwater environments, finding that microplastics have become a primary concern across studies covering animal health, human health, and ecosystem impacts. A key gap identified is the lack of clear connections linking plastic effects across these three domains — environment, wildlife, and human health — into a unified understanding.
Revealing youth-perceived cultural ecosystem services for high-density urban green space management: a deep learning spatial analysis of social media photographs from central Beijing
Researchers used AI-analyzed social media photos from young people in Beijing to map which types of urban green spaces they valued most, finding that social recreation was the top benefit, followed by nature appreciation. The study shows how crowdsourced imagery and deep learning can help city planners understand where green spaces best support youth mental health in densely built environments.
Trait emotional intelligence and ecological outcomes: the role of connectedness to nature
Researchers found that people with higher emotional intelligence show stronger connections to nature, which in turn promotes more environmentally responsible behaviors. The study suggests that environmental education programs targeting emotional intelligence could be effective at encouraging ecological action.
Beyond landscape experience: A systematic literature review on the concept of spatial quality in flood‐risk management
This paper is not about microplastics; it systematically reviews how "spatial quality" is defined and used in flood-risk management planning across different countries and academic traditions.
Fostering human health through ocean sustainability in the 21st century
This review framed the ocean as essential to human health and well-being—providing food, trade, energy, and psychological benefits—and argued that ocean sustainability must be integrated into public health policy beyond just risk management. The authors call for interdisciplinary research linking ocean health to human health outcomes ahead of the UN Ocean Decade.
Cumulative impact assessment for ecosystem-based marine spatial planning
This review examines how cumulative human impact assessments — which combine pressures from fishing, pollution, shipping, and other sources — can be integrated into marine spatial planning to better balance human uses against ecosystem health.