Overview
- Multidisciplinary approach to plastic pollution of the oceans, seas, and rivers and to potential sustainable solutions
- Insights from scientists in various fields
- Contributions from artists and communicators
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
Keywords
- marine plastic litter
- plastic pollution
- microplastic in marine ecosystem
- sustainable solutions to plastic pollution
- plastic contamination
- microplastics in the North Atlantic
- marine litter in the Mediterranean Sea
- plastic pollution in China and Far East
- marine plastic debris
- plastic pollution in art and science
- public awareness of plastic pollution
- eco art and plastic litter
- plastic waste
- microplastics in soils
- plastic ingestion
- plastic entanglement
- economic impacts of plastic
- history of plastics
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Marilena Streit-Bianchi was born in Rome (Italy). She received a doctorate in Biological Sciences from the University of Rome and joined CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva (Switzerland), in 1969. She has been a pioneer in the study of high-energy particles produced by accelerators for cancer treatment. She has held managerial positions in the area of safety training and technology transfer and is currently a senior honorary staff member at CERN, actively engaged in art and science as a book editor and curator of exhibitions in Europe and Mozambique.
Margarita Cimadevila The artist who was born in Sada (A Coruña, Spain), graduated in Chemistry. She then worked as a secondary school science teacher for the Government of Galicia for thirty years, nine of them as director. Her artistic work combines science and art on topics such as the particle physics at CERN, women in science, gender equality and eco art. She is president of the organizationARSCIENCIA and a member of AMIT (Spanish Association of Women Researchers and Technologists). Her work has been exhibited in Europe, America and China.Wolfgang Trettnak was born in Graz (Austria) and received a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Graz. He undertook applied research on sensors and biosensors for several years and published a number of scientific articles. In 2002 he became a freelance artist, and his work, which comprises painting, object art, and installations, has been exhibited in Europe, America, and China. His work links science with art on subjects such as bionics, electronics, luminescence and environmental topics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mare Plasticum - The Plastic Sea
Book Subtitle: Combatting Plastic Pollution Through Science and Art
Editors: Marilena Streit-Bianchi, Margarita Cimadevila, Wolfgang Trettnak
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38945-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38944-4Published: 24 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38947-5Published: 25 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38945-1Published: 23 July 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 252
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 75 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ecology, Pollution, general, Environment, general, Water, general, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Arts