Plastics in Coastal and Marine Environments
eBook - ePub

Plastics in Coastal and Marine Environments

  1. 446 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Plastics in Coastal and Marine Environments

About this book

Plastics in Coastal and Marine Environments: A Global Crisis is the first foundational reference book focused on plastics and their impacts on coasts and oceans. Plastic litter is one of the most pervasive and fastest-growing anthropogenic alterations of the world's coasts and oceans and its magnitude, distribution, and collateral effects have been suggested as a geological indicator of the Anthropocene stage and specifically of the Plasticene age. The chapters of the book are arranged to follow a narrative that will allow readers to understand the plastic problem in coastal and marine environments. The book begins with the invention of plastics and finishes with their indelible mark on Earth through new types of rocks generated by plastic production and use (the Plasticene era). It concludes with possible strategies to tackle the inexorable rising of plastic litter in coastal and marine environments. Combining core theory and diverse strategies and case studies, Plastics in Coastal and Marine Environments: A Global Crisis is an essential reference for researchers in oceanographers, geology, and biologists - Includes global, multidisciplinary case studies - Covers the entire lifecycle of plastic and its impacts - Presents a novel chapter about Plastics in the Geologic Record

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Information

Publisher
Elsevier
Year
2025
Topic
Biological Sciences
eBook ISBN
9780443135606
Subtopic
Economic Theory
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Title of Book
  2. Chapter 1 Plastics: the paradox of convenience and crisis
  3. Chapter 2 The plastic lifecycle
  4. Chapter 3 How to monitor plastics in coastal and marine environments
  5. Chapter 4 The many faces, conditions, and sources of plastics in the coastal and marine environment
  6. Chapter 5 The extension of the problem—a regional overview of plastic pollution in the world’s seas and oceans
  7. Chapter 6 The microplastic and nanoplastic world
  8. Chapter 7 The plastic menace
  9. Chapter 8 Endangered habitats: plastic impacts over ecosystems
  10. Chapter 9 The socioeconomic cost of plastic pollution
  11. Chapter 10 Plastics in the geological record
  12. Chapter 11 What are we doing to solve the plastic issue
  13. Chapter 12 The legislative and political agenda
  14. Chapter 13 The way forward: how to manage the plastic problem
  15. Index

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