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The second volume of the book “Plastics in the Aquatic Environment – Part II: Stakeholders’ Role against Pollution” looks at the plastic pollution from the societal and policy points of view. The volume comprises 12 chapters giving an overview of mechanisms aiming at preventing or reducing plastic pollution. This chapter provides a brief summary of discussions and results of the research or projects reviewed in the chapters of this second volume. It gives an overview of the initiatives discussed in the volume, presenting the most important aspects pointed out by specialists working in such diverse fields as education, psychology, environmental research, nature conservation, environmental policy, financial sphere and law.
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Evgeniia Kostianaia was partially supported in the framework of the Russian Science Foundation Project N 21-17-00191 (2021–2023) “Monitoring of water exchange through the Kerch Strait based on state-of-the-art methods of observations and numerical modeling”.
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Stock, F., Reifferscheid, G., Brennholt, N., Kostianaia, E. (2021). Concluding Remarks on the Role of Stakeholders in Addressing Plastic Pollution of the Aquatic Environment. In: Stock, F., Reifferscheid, G., Brennholt, N., Kostianaia, E. (eds) Plastics in the Aquatic Environment - Part II. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 112. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2021_779
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