Plastics in Coastal and Marine Environments

Buitrago, Nelson Guillermo Rangel

Elsevier - Health Sciences Division（2025/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 466 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780443135590
• DDC分類 363.738

Full Description

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

Contents

1. The History of Plastics.
2. The Plastic Cycle and its Collateral Effects.
3. How to Measure Plastics in Coastal and Marine Environments.
4. The Many Faces, Conditions, and Sources of Plastics.
5. The Extension of the Problem.
6. The Micro and Nano Plastic World.
7. The Plastic Menace: The Detrimental Impacts of Plastics Over Marine Species.
8. Endangered Habitats: Plastics Impacts Over Ecosystems.
9. The Social and Economic Cost of Plastics.
10. Plastics in the Geologic Record.
11. What Are We Doing to Solve the Plastic Issue?
12. The Legislative and Political Agenda.
13. The Way Forward (How to Manage the Plastic Problem).