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This systematic literature review examined the relationship between environmental aesthetics, ecological quality, and human health outcomes in blue and green space development programs. Researchers found that while improving aesthetics is a common management goal, few studies have adequately quantified the link between aesthetically pleasing ecologically sound environments and measurable human health benefits, identifying a critical knowledge gap.
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.
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.
Temporal and spatial distribution of microplastics in green infrastructures: Rain gardens
Researchers measured temporal and spatial distribution of microplastics in green areas including parks and urban forests, finding particles across all sampled sites with concentration patterns influenced by proximity to roads, human activity, and atmospheric deposition. The results indicate that even urban green spaces are not free from microplastic contamination.
Green Walls as Mitigation of Urban Air Pollution: A Review of Their Effectiveness
This review assessed the effectiveness of green walls (living walls and green facades) for mitigating urban air pollution, finding that while vegetation can capture particulates and absorb gaseous pollutants, effectiveness varies considerably with plant species, wall design, and local conditions.
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.
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.
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.
Microplastic analysis in urban areas and their impact on quality of life
Researchers assessed microplastic contamination in urban water environments and evaluated its impact on community quality of life, arguing that a critical gap in standardized analytical methods is limiting progress in both research and environmental management of microplastic pollution.
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.
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.
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.
Self-rated health and perceived environmental quality in Brunei Darussalam: a cross-sectional study
Researchers found in a cross-sectional study in Brunei Darussalam that perceived environmental quality is associated with self-rated health, but that regular physical exercise may partially offset the negative health effects of poor environmental conditions.
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.
Parks and Recreational Areas as Sinks of Plastic Debris in Urban Sites: The Case of Light-Density Microplastics in the City of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Researchers found that parks and recreational areas in Amsterdam act as significant sinks for light-density microplastics, with artificial turf infill, tire rubber, and film fragments as dominant types, suggesting urban green spaces accumulate substantial plastic pollution from recreational and maintenance activities.
Rethinking the Connections between Ecosystem Services, Pollinators, Pollution, and Health: Focus on Air Pollution and Its Impacts
This review examined the interconnections between ecosystem services, pollinators, air pollution, and human health, highlighting how airborne particulate matter disrupts pollination and other regulation services essential for environmental and human well-being.
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.
Blue–Green Infrastructure Effectiveness for Urban Stormwater Management: A Multi-Scale Residential Case Study
Despite its title referencing urban stormwater management, this paper studies the effectiveness of blue-green infrastructure — such as rain gardens and permeable pavements — at managing stormwater runoff from residential areas under climate change conditions. While stormwater is a major carrier of microplastics to waterways, this study focuses on hydraulic performance rather than microplastic removal, and is only tangentially relevant to the topic.
Environmental determinants of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic health: interactive roles of air pollution, heat waves, and green spaces
This study examined how multiple environmental stressors, including air pollution, heat waves, and green spaces, interact to influence cardiovascular disease risk in populations with cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic conditions. The findings provide evidence that these environmental factors do not act in isolation but interact in ways that affect overall disease risk. The study highlights the importance of integrated environmental and public health strategies for vulnerable populations.
Environmental science and mental health review: final report to NERC valuing nature programme
This report reviewed connections between environmental science and mental health, identifying gaps and future research directions. The broader context includes concerns about how environmental contaminants like microplastics may contribute to psychological stress and health anxiety.
Reconnecting with nature: developing urban spaces in the age of climate change
This reflective essay examined how patterns of urbanization have disconnected humans from nature, arguing that cities must incorporate green spaces and nature-based design to improve resilience and wellbeing in the context of accelerating climate change.