Marine Plastic Pollution: Recent Advances and Future Challenges
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Oceans and Coastal Zones".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2026 | Viewed by 20
Special Issue Editors
Interests: remote sensing; coastal environment; marine pollution; nearshore processes
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Dear Colleagues,
Marine litter is a growing global issue affecting both human health and marine ecosystems; moreover, negative impacts are evident in coastal economies. Despite several policy initiatives and scientific studies having been carried out to identify marine litter sources and evaluate the applicability of monitoring techniques, significant gaps remain.
This Special Issue focuses on recent advances and future challenges in understanding and addressing marine plastic pollution, including its sources, behavior, environmental and socio-economic impacts. Additionally, to carry out innovative mitigation strategies, we will focus on the applicability of monitoring techniques (via remote sensing and/or hydrodynamic models), identifying the main advances and limitations.
As the title of the Special Issue is “Marine Plastic Pollution: Recent Advances and Future Challenges”, high-quality research papers, review articles, and case studies related, but not limited, to the following topics are welcome:
- The state of the art in scientific research related to marine litter;
- Identifying and quantifying marine litter sources and hotspots;
- Fate and transport mechanisms of macro- and microplastics in riverine and marine environments;
- Impact of marine litter on marine ecosystem;
- Monitoring methods using, e.g., remote sensing, hydrodynamic models, citizen science, etc.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Umberto Andriolo
Guest Editor
Dr. Laura Corbari
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- marine litter
- microplastics
- macroplastics
- plastic pollution
- marine ecosystems
- monitoring techniques
- hydrodynamic models
- environmental impact
- socio-economic impact
- remote sensing
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