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ClearSystems Thinking Research in Science and Sustainability Education: A Theoretical Note
This theoretical review examined systems thinking in science and sustainability education, critically analyzing the contradictions within sustainable development education and arguing that truly transformative environmental education must challenge anthropocentric assumptions embedded in SDG frameworks.
Perspectives on education for sustainability in chemistry teaching
This review examines perspectives on integrating education for sustainability into chemistry teaching, addressing how unsustainable lifestyles drive climate change, water pollution, and resource depletion. The paper discusses how chemistry educators can align curricula with sustainable development principles to prepare students to meet future societal needs.
Transformative education for advanced competencies in planetary health : module-based training manual
This module-based training manual provides educational resources for a master's-level course on planetary health, covering competencies in environmental sustainability, health advocacy, and transformative approaches to systemic real-world challenges including pollution, biodiversity loss, and climate change.
Ignoring the planet: A critical blind spot for research on ageing
This paper argues that aging research has overlooked the significant role that environmental factors, including microplastic and nanoplastic exposure, play in shaping lifelong and even intergenerational health outcomes. Researchers highlight that harmful environmental exposures can trigger epigenetic changes during development that program future susceptibility to age-related health decline. The study proposes a new framework connecting aging research with environmental science to address the root causes of declining healthspan.
Sustainability within a global environmental change context
This book chapter summarizes the key human drivers of environmental change—including plastic and microplastic pollution—and introduces ecosystem services as the framework for understanding how human activities disrupt the natural systems that sustain life. It provides conceptual context for sustainability education rather than original empirical findings.
Planetary Health: Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the Anthropocene
This book on Planetary Health framed environmental degradation as a direct threat to human health across domains from pandemics to chronic disease to mental health, arguing that transformative changes in energy, food, housing, and transport systems are needed to simultaneously improve health outcomes and protect the natural systems on which human civilization depends.
Toward an Economic and Environmental Sustainability of the Health Systems of Western Countries
This paper discusses economic and environmental sustainability challenges facing Western health systems, arguing for reforms to reduce inequality and environmental impact. It is a public health policy piece not focused on microplastics.
What is planetary health? Addressing the environment-health nexus in Southeast Asia in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals: opportunities for International Relations scholars
This policy paper calls for better integration of environmental conservation and human health goals in Southeast Asia, using the concept of planetary health. It argues that clean environments—free of pollutants like microplastics—are essential for human well-being, especially for communities dependent on natural resources.
Nurses as agents for achieving environmentally sustainable health systems: A bibliometric analysis
This bibliometric analysis examined the role of nurses in achieving environmentally sustainable health systems, finding a lack of experimental data and policies and highlighting that nurses should be included in sustainability decision-making within healthcare.
Die Bedeutung der Konzepte One Health und Planetary Health für die Umweltmedizin im 21. Jahrhundert
This review examined how One Health and Planetary Health frameworks are essential for 21st-century environmental medicine, emphasizing the interconnected threats from chemical pollutants, microplastics, and climate change to both human and ecosystem health.
What are the valuable lessons from global research on environmental literacy in the last two decades? A systematic literature review
This paper is not about microplastics; it is a systematic literature review of global research on environmental literacy in education over the past two decades, analyzing publication trends and teaching approaches.
Planetary health and non-communicable diseases—A converging global crisis
This review examines the convergence of environmental degradation and the global rise in non-communicable diseases, identifying microplastics as one of several environmental pollutants contributing to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and chronic respiratory conditions. The authors argue that addressing plastic pollution is integral to a planetary health approach to disease prevention.
Sustainable Future Green School Ecology: Prevents Future-Pandemic Improving Biomedicines-Physiology Health Technology Biodiversity World Policy Development Studies
This paper argues that schools need to integrate green ecology education into curricula to prepare students for future pandemic prevention, linking microplastic contamination of freshwater systems to pathogen vectors that can compromise human gut health and overall immune function.
Food, Agriculture, Environment and Chronic non-communicable diseases: How are they connected?
This review examined the connections between modern diet, agricultural practices, and the rise of chronic non-communicable diseases, arguing that environmental changes since industrialization — including chemical pollutants, microplastics, and nutrient-depleted food systems — have outpaced evolutionary adaptation. The authors called for a food systems approach to reducing chronic disease burden.
Novel concept for the healthy population influencing factors
This paper introduced a novel conceptual framework for identifying the factors that influence population health, integrating environmental, behavioral, and socioeconomic determinants. The framework is proposed as a tool for public health planning and health impact assessment.
Health Hazards due to Environmental Impacts
This review examined how environmental changes — including chemical contamination, climate shifts, and poor sanitation — negatively affect human health, concluding that chemical safety and environmental quality are foundational to preventing widespread disease.
Pedagogical Purposes of Scientifical and Technological Literacy within Sustainable and Green Chemistry in the High School
This paper distinguishes between environmental, sustainable, and green chemistry and discusses how these frameworks can be integrated into high school science education. Teaching students about plastic pollution and its chemical impacts is part of developing scientifically literate citizens.
A Retrospective Approach to Pro-Environmental Behavior from Environmental Education: An Alternative from Sustainable Development
This 20-year bibliometric retrospective on environmental education and pro-environmental behaviour research found a persistent gap between acquiring environmental knowledge and changing behaviour, concluding that participatory pedagogical approaches and greater integration of sustainable development into higher education are needed to bridge this divide.
Transdisciplinary Research Priorities for Human and Planetary Health in the Context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
An interdisciplinary workshop developed a transdisciplinary research agenda for human and planetary health under the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, identifying four priority themes: risk identification, socio-environmental drivers, governance, and technology innovation to address environmental health threats.
An Increasingly Unhealthy Planet Affects Everyone’s Health
This UN Environment Programme report identifies food, energy, and waste systems as the key drivers of global environmental degradation, calling for transformative policy change. Plastic pollution and its fragmentation into microplastics is specifically highlighted as a product of unsustainable production and waste systems.
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.
Systematic literature review: a typology of Sustainability Literacy and Environmental Literacy
This systematic literature review develops a typology of sustainability literacy and environmental education frameworks, mapping how different educational approaches define and measure student competencies related to ecological awareness and sustainable behavior.
Cobénéfices santé-environnement : concepts et recommandations pour la pratique clinique
This paper reviews the concepts of health-environment co-benefits within One Health, EcoHealth, and Planetary Health frameworks, providing clinical practice recommendations for healthcare professionals to integrate environmental co-benefit considerations — including reductions in plastic and chemical exposures — into patient counseling and healthcare system decision-making.
Ecological transition and health: the role of physicians and healthcare
This perspective article examines the role of physicians and healthcare workers in addressing climate change and pollution as major public health threats, including microplastics, PFAS, and fine particulate matter. It argues that the medical community must move beyond disease treatment to advocate for reduced fossil fuel use and sustainable healthcare policies.