Editorial: Environment and Health

Sprovieri, Mario; Eljarrat, Ethel; Bianchi, Fabrizio

doi:10.3389/feart.2020.598611

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“…As we saw in the previous section, the Mediterranean basin is threatened by multiple stressors associated with the rapid expansion of coastal populations, urbanization, changes in agricultural, industrial and shipping patterns, overfishing and exploration and extraction of offshore minerals and hydrocarbons (Danovaro et al, 2020;Sprovieri et al, 2020;Sprovieri et al, 2021;Melaku Canu et al, 2015). In addition, 30% of the world maritime traffic is passing by the basin, being the first tourist destination of the world.…”

Section: A Clean Mediterranean Seamentioning

confidence: 96%

The Mediterranean Sea we want

Cappelletto¹,

Santoleri²,

Evangelista³

et al. 2021

Ocean Coast. Res.

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Cappelletto et al.This paper presents major gaps and challenges for implementing the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021)(2022)(2023)(2024)(2025)(2026)(2027)(2028)(2029)(2030) in the Mediterranean region. The authors make recommendations on the scientific knowledge needs and codesign actions identified during two consultations, part of the Decade preparatory-phase, framing them in the Mediterranean Sea's unique environmental and socio-economic perspectives. According to the 'Mediterranean State of the Environment and Development Report 2020' by the United Nations Environment Programme Mediterranean Action Plan and despite notable progress, the Mediterranean region is not on track to achieve and fully implement the Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030. Key factors are the cumulative effect of multiple human-induced pressures that threaten the ecosystem resources and services in the global change scenario. The basin, identified as a climate change vulnerability hotspot, is exposed to pollution and rising impacts of climate change. This affects mainly the coastal zones, at increasing risk of extreme events and their negative effects of unsustainable management of key economic assets. Transitioning to a sustainable blue economy is the key for the marine environment's health and the nourishment of future generations. This challenging context, offering the opportunity of enhancing the knowledge to define science-based measures as well as narrowing the gaps between the Northen and Southern shores, calls for a joint (re)action. The paper reviews the state of the art of Mediterranean Sea science knowledge, sets of trends, capacity development needs, specific challenges, and recommendations for each Decade's societal outcome. In the conclusions, the proposal for a Mediterranean regional programme in the framework of the Ocean Decade is addressed. The core objective relies on integrating and improving the existing ocean-knowledge, Ocean Literacy, and ocean observing capacities building on international cooperation to reach the "Mediterranean Sea that we want".

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Section: A Clean Mediterranean Seamentioning

confidence: 96%

The Mediterranean Sea we want

Cappelletto¹,

Santoleri²,

Evangelista³

et al. 2021

Ocean Coast. Res.

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“…They advocated a reciprocally integrative approach like [316] before them, based on an understanding of their overlaps, synergies, divergences and limits, instead of mistaking these terms for being mutually substitutable ones, an exercise which was also undertaken later by Carus et al (2018) [317]. Green economy, which is a broader 'umbrella' concept, factors in social sustainability as well [6,298,356,388], implying that the scope of the adjective 'green' has to be expanded beyond just environmental concerns [293,357]. Circular bioeconomy (the synergistic combination of CE and BE in other words) is represented by a small sliver which is associated with techno-knowledge fixes to enable economic growth with a relative decoupling from environmental impacts [298], while Giampietro (2019) [334] describes it as a combination of a desirable 'what' (circular economy) with a viable, feasible and desirable 'how' (bioeconomy).…”

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Circular Bio-economy—Paradigm for the Future: Systematic Review of Scientific Journal Publications from 2015 to 2021

Govindarajan

2021

Circ.Econ.Sust.

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While ‘renewable’ is the keyword in a bioeconomy and resource conservation is the motivation behind a circular economy, a circular bioeconomy is one in which waste streams from renewable bio-resources are looped back into the technosphere—open-loop or closed-loop recycling or conversion from matter to energy. This systematic review brings together 385 publications from 2015 to 2021, originating from 50 countries and appearing in 150 journals, into a coherent account of the status quo of published research on circular bioeconomy. The numbers bear testimony to the growing interest in this field of research. Germany is the leading contributor to the scientific literature base (10%), while the Journal of Cleaner Production (9%) tops the list of journals in the fray. The methodology adopted has been clearly explained, and the discussion has been segmented into sub-sections and sub-sub-sections to do justice to the diversity of the nature of the publications. A little flexibility in organisation of the flow of the text has been availed of, to improve readability. The circular bioeconomy can be visualised as a set of ‘many through many to many’ relationships, enabling both economies of scale and scope in the longer run. This calls for extensive collaboration and cooperation among the numerous stakeholders involved. Several barriers will have to be overcome. Technology impact assessments and sustainability risk appraisals need to be carried out in order to ensure and convince stakeholders that they are on the right path. But as one knows and will appreciate, challenges lurk where there exist opportunities to be availed of, to replace the take-make-use-dispose paradigm of a linear economy to the grow-make-use-restore alternative. Graphical abstract

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Year 2020. World Toxic Risk for Environmental and Human Tissue Pollution: Prevention, Therapy and Importance of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Collaboration Inside Thermal and Rehabilitation Centers

Pantaleoni

2020

Bulletin of Rehabilitation Medicine

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This work is finalized at preventing toxic damage from associated pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies. As a “finalization” of this paper, we have pointed, today Year 2020, in full toxic Risk, and also at the Risk of Pandemic from COVID 19, the duty to introduce in every hospital and also in some particulars Rehabilitation Centers and/or in some special thermal Place of the Planet, together with the presence of the Doctors Specialists in Medicine and/or in Rehabilitation and Balneology, also the Doctors Specialists in Clinical Pharmacology. These Medical Doctors, Clinical Pharmacologist, by definition, are expert in the global study of “Pharmacological and toxicological drug and non drug Interactions”. We must today, also to consider that there is a “Universal Law of Collaboration DNA dependent”, highlighted by us through ours Studies of Behavioral teratogenesis. For this last problem we have pointed out the very important scientific discoveries of our prof. Vittorio Erspamer of the Institute of Pharmacology of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Vittorio Erspamer has given, a big contribution to the knowledge of “intercellular communications”, and therefore to the confirmation of the “Law of cellular and organismic collaboration”, with the discovery of Serotonin (Enteramine) and then of numerous other neuro mediators and peptide neuro modulators (the peptide triangle). today we are in danger of Global toxic Damage. Environmental damage to nature and the population can be prevented and fought with a Periodic Family Detoxification (P.F.D.) to be implemented, in different ways and with International Collaboration. the thermal Centers are therefore, a physiological, and harmonic phylogenetic privileged places. We must point also, the Italian School of Hydroclimatology and thermalism of Rome University, for the first work on International Classification of the Mineral Wathers of the world of Prof. Mariano Messini and Giulio Claudio di Lollo.

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Editorial: Environment and Health

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

The Mediterranean Sea we want

The Mediterranean Sea we want

Circular Bio-economy—Paradigm for the Future: Systematic Review of Scientific Journal Publications from 2015 to 2021

Year 2020. World Toxic Risk for Environmental and Human Tissue Pollution: Prevention, Therapy and Importance of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Collaboration Inside Thermal and Rehabilitation Centers

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