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Interdisciplinary Environmental Review

Interdisciplinary Environmental Review (IER)

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  • Identifying microplastic contamination in drinking water: analysis and evaluation using spectroscopic methods   Order a copy of this article
    by I. Ronald Win Roy, A. Stanley Raj 
    Abstract: Plastics are ubiquitous and so are microplastics. Plastics that are found in the environment slowly decays into small fragments called as microplastics. Shape, size, thickness and their shades play an important role in determining their degradation. Plastics that are less than 5 mm in diameter are microplastics. Environmental exposures, quality of the plastic and plastic degradation are the three important factors that influences the shape of the microplastic. Long exposure in environment has multiple effects on the plastics. Predominant way of microplastics entering the human body is via ingestion for example drinking waters, tank waters, eatables, etc. Recent researches reveal the presence of microplastic in human blood, placenta, in the guts of whales, fishes, turtles, etc. In this paper, a novel method is executed in analysing and determining the microplastic fragments. Also, the drinking water samples were tested and analysed proving the presence of microplastics in the drinking water.
    Keywords: microplastics; ground water; FTIR analysis; plastic contamination.
    DOI: 10.1504/IER.2025.10068207
     
  • Environmental awareness and consumers willingness to accept higher fuel prices to reduce carbon emissions   Order a copy of this article
    by John Mccollough 
    Abstract: This article presents the results of two surveys regarding consumers’ willingness to accept higher fuel prices to reduce carbon emissions. Both surveys are exactly similar and were given during the same time. For the first survey, the survey respondents were asked to read a one-page associated press article from January 10th, 2022, which summarised the problems that occurred in the USA resulting from climate change during the previous year of 2021. In the second survey, the participants were not given the article to read. The results of both surveys demonstrate that climate change awareness keenly impacts how much survey participants are willing to accept in terms of higher fuel prices to reduce carbon emissions. Therefore, if the national government wants to increase fuel prices to reduce carbon emissions, then the government needs to make the public very aware about the pending problems, issues and causes of climate change.
    Keywords: environmental awareness; carbon emissions; fuel tax; climate change; fuel prices; willingness to accept; climate awareness.
    DOI: 10.1504/IER.2025.10068616
     
  • Extreme weather events, agricultural productivity and inflation in Africa: does adaptive capacity play any significant role?   Order a copy of this article
    by Mark Edem Kunawotor  
    Abstract: This paper provides empirical econometric evidence by examining the linkages between extreme weather events, agricultural productivity and inflation in Africa. Afterwards, it investigates the moderating role of climate change adaptive capacity in the agricultural productivity and weather events nexus. The paper deploys the System Generalized Method of Moments modelling strategy and the Panel Vector Error Correction Model on 52 African economies from 1990 - 2017. The findings show that extreme weather events cause a decline in African agricultural productivity. Drought has a stronger tendency to cause a decrease in agricultural productivity than floods. Further, the results show that the adverse impact of extreme weather events on agricultural productivity is mitigated with relatively robust climate change adaptive capacities. Extreme weather events also positively correlate with headline inflation, while drought and flood positively correlate with food inflation. The paper suggests that African governments may need to build climate-resilient economies by investing more in climate change adaptation mechanisms to boost their respective adaptive capacities against climate variabilities.
    Keywords: extreme weather events; agricultural productivity; adaptive capacity; inflation; Africa.
    DOI: 10.1504/IER.2025.10068876