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ClearSustainable Practices in Geoenvironmental Engineering
This textbook covers sustainable practices in geoenvironmental engineering, addressing how engineering approaches can reduce environmental contamination from emerging pollutants including micro- and nanoplastics. The updated edition includes new chapters on topics such as pharmaceutical contaminants and fire-retardant chemicals alongside case studies of real-world remediation efforts. The work serves as a comprehensive reference for managing the environmental impacts of modern contaminants in soil and groundwater.
Environmental Health Literacy Update - New Evidence, Methodologies and Perspectives
This edited volume compiles new research and perspectives on environmental health literacy, with chapters covering microplastic pollution, plastic impacts on children's health, air quality, and environmental justice. Rather than reporting a single study, it offers a broad update on how communities and researchers are building the knowledge needed to address environmental health threats. The inclusion of microplastic pollution as a central topic reflects the field's growing recognition of plastics as a significant public health concern.
The Effects of Negatıve Envıronmental Factors on Publıc Health (Aır, Water, And Soıl Pollutıon)
This study examined the effects of air, water, and soil pollution on public health within the One Health framework, with particular attention to emerging pollutants including microplastics. Researchers found that environmental contamination, including microplastic pollution in water and soil systems, contributes to a wide range of health outcomes affecting respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurological systems.
Olumsuz Çevresel Faktörlerin Toplum Sağlığı Üzerine Etkileri (Hava-Su-Toprak Kirliliği)
This review examines how air, water, and soil pollution affect public health through a One Health framework, noting that environmental pollutants including microplastics and nanomaterials pose emerging risks. Researchers found that urbanization, industrialization, and climate change are intensifying environmental health threats, with vulnerable populations disproportionately affected. The study emphasizes the need for monitoring, early warning systems, and protective strategies to address deepening health inequalities.
The Health-trash Nexus in Challenging Environments: A Spatial Mixed Methods Analysis of Accra, Ghana
This mixed-methods study in Accra, Ghana analyzed the spatial relationship between waste disposal practices and health outcomes in a rapidly urbanizing city. Open dumping and poor waste management create conditions where microplastics and other contaminants accumulate near communities, with direct public health consequences.
Medical Geology: An Interdisciplinary Approach Intended to Unfold the Issues of Natural Environment on Public Health
This review introduces medical geology as an interdisciplinary field studying how natural and anthropogenic environmental materials — including microplastics and trace elements — affect public health, integrating geoscience with epidemiology to better understand exposure pathways and disease risk.
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.
Toxic Legacies and Health Inequalities of the Anthropocene: Perspectives from the Margins
Not relevant to microplastics — this sociological paper uses case studies from Mexico and Italy to analyze how toxic waste dumping and industrial pollution create health inequalities in marginalized communities, without focusing on microplastics.
Sustaining Life: Human Health–Planetary Health Linkages
This chapter introduces the Planetary Health framework, which treats human and environmental health as inseparable, using examples like climate change, chemical contamination, and biodiversity loss. Microplastic pollution fits within this framework as a chemical contamination threat that simultaneously harms ecosystems and human health.
Current Trends, Spatio‐Temporal Dynamics of Microplastics Research and Global Public Health: A Scientometric Study
This scientometric study analyzes trends in microplastic research and its connection to public health, finding a rapid increase in published studies over recent years. The analysis maps how the field has grown globally and identifies key research themes connecting microplastics to human health concerns. The increasing volume of research reflects growing scientific recognition that microplastics are a significant public health issue.
Water and health: From environmental pressures to integrated responses
This paper analyzes how water pollution, including plastic contamination, affects human health using a Drivers-Pressures-State-Impacts-Responses framework combined with a literature review. Researchers found that while the pathways from pollution sources to health impacts differ greatly for chemicals, pathogens, and plastics, the potential water management responses share remarkable similarities. The study argues that integrated water resource management can simultaneously address multiple health threats, including those posed by microplastic pollution.
Use of scientific evidence to inform environmental health policies and governance strategies at the local level
Researchers examined how scientific evidence informs environmental health policies at the local governance level, finding gaps between available research on emerging contaminants like microplastics and their translation into effective regulatory strategies.
Plastic litters and public health
This book chapter examines the public health implications of plastic litter pollution, covering the contamination of marine and terrestrial ecosystems by micro- and nanoplastics and the associated risks to human health through exposure pathways in food, water, and air.
Multiple Effects, Pathways, and Potential Health Risks from Environmental Microplastic Exposure
This review synthesizes nearly two decades of research on the multiple pathways through which environmental microplastics affect human and ecological health, including chemical toxicity, physical impacts, and potential roles as carriers of pathogens and contaminants.
Microplastics in the Ecosphere
This book provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic pollution across all major environmental compartments, including water, soil, air, and living organisms. It covers the sources of microplastics, their distribution patterns, and their potential effects on ecosystems and public health. The resource aims to consolidate current knowledge about how these tiny plastic particles move through the ecosphere and what risks they may pose.
Microplastic Pollution: Causes, Effects and Control
This book provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic pollution, covering analytical tools and techniques, sources and pathways of contamination, and impacts on both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. The authors emphasize the urgency of addressing microplastic pollution through collaborative efforts and sustainable solutions, while examining potential risks to human well-being.
Index
Not relevant to microplastics — this is a book index covering topics in One Health, zoonotic diseases, antimicrobial resistance, and environmental health; microplastics appear only incidentally in a table of pollutant concentrations.
Proceedings of the International One Health Conference
Not relevant to microplastics — this is a conference proceedings summary for the 2022 International One Health Conference in Catania, Italy, covering interdisciplinary approaches to urban and environmental health management.
Bibliometric Studies and Worldwide Research Trends on Global Health.
This editorial introduces a special issue addressing global health challenges including environmental problems like climate change and plastic pollution from a bibliometric perspective. The papers in the collection analyze research trends across environmental, disease, and health domains at a global scale.
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.
Introduction to Part II
This is an introductory chapter in a social science book framing how invisible toxicants and pollution are embedded in everyday modern life. It is a humanities perspective piece rather than an empirical study of microplastics.
Small-area methods for investigation of environment and health
This paper reviews small-area epidemiological methods for investigating associations between environmental pollutants, including microplastics, and human health outcomes at the neighborhood scale. The authors highlight recent Bayesian statistical advances that improve the ability to detect disease patterns linked to localized environmental exposures.
Microplastics and Your Health Problems
This book introduces microplastics to a general readership, covering definitions, plastic additive health effects, types of microplastics, environmental detection methods, and links to human diseases. It serves as an accessible educational resource on how microplastics enter the food chain and may affect human health.
Microplastics in ecological system: Their prevalence, health effects, and remediation
This review provides an overview of microplastic prevalence across different ecosystems and their potential effects on environmental and human health. The researchers discuss how microplastics enter water, soil, and food chains, and examine the various biological effects documented in organisms. They also review current remediation strategies being developed to address microplastic contamination.