Public concern about, and desire for research into, the human health effects of marine plastic pollution: Results from a 15-country survey across Europe and Australia

Sophie M. C. Davison; Mathew P. White; Sabine Pahl; Tim Taylor; Kelly Fielding; Bethany R. Roberts; Theo Economou; Oonagh McMeel; Paula Kellett; Lora E. Fleming

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102309

Public concern about, and desire for research into, the human health effects of marine plastic pollution: Results from a 15-country survey across Europe and Australia

Sophie M. C. Davison, Mathew P. White, Sabine Pahl, Tim Taylor, Kelly Fielding, Bethany R. Roberts, Theo Economou, Oonagh McMeel, Paula Kellett, Lora E. Fleming

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Original language	English
Article number	102309
Number of pages	14
Journal	Global Environmental Change
Volume	69
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102309
Publication status	Published - Jul 2021

Funding

This research was funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 774567, with the SOPHIA survey funded by the QUEX Initiator Grant Scheme. The authors are grateful to additional partners in the SOPHIE and SOPHIA projects including Deltares, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, the National University of Ireland, Galway, SUBMON and Travelecology, and to members of SOPHIE's external advisory board, various stakeholder groups, and the Health and Environment Public Engagement Group (HEPE) based at the University of Exeter Medical School who helped develop the survey.

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

501002 Applied psychology

Keywords

Marine plastic pollution
Public perceptions
Multi-country analysis
Mediation analysis
Oceans and Human Health
Marine threats
CLIMATE-CHANGE
ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN
PERSONALITY-TRAITS
RISK PERCEPTIONS
DETERMINANTS
ATTITUDES
MICROPLASTICS
BEHAVIOR
OCEAN

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Davison, S. M. C., White, M. P., Pahl, S., Taylor, T., Fielding, K., Roberts, B. R., Economou, T., McMeel, O., Kellett, P., & Fleming, L. E. (2021). Public concern about, and desire for research into, the human health effects of marine plastic pollution: Results from a 15-country survey across Europe and Australia. Global Environmental Change, 69, Article 102309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102309

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Public concern about, and desire for research into, the human health effects of marine plastic pollution: Results from a 15-country survey across Europe and Australia

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Austrian Fields of Science 2012

Keywords

UN SDGs

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