• Advancing consistent socio-economic monitoring of coastal ecosystem restoration through collaborative metric development 

      Olander, Lydia; Warnell, Katie; Mason, Sara; Karasik, Rachel; Tallis, Heather; Coffey, Kara; Hale, Christine; Shepard, Christine; Wowk, Kateryna; Yoskowitz, David (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      Ecological restoration programs increasingly aim to provide socio-economic and environmental benefits. However, monitoring of socio-economic outcomes of these programs lags behind monitoring of ecological outcomes. ...
    • Cleaning Up without Messing Up: Maximizing the Benefits of Plastic Clean-Up Technologies through New Regulatory Approaches 

      Falk-Andersson, Jannike; Rognerud, Idun; De Frond, Hannah; Leone, Giulia; Karasik, Rachel; Diana, Zoie; Dijkstra, Hanna; Ammendolia, Justine; Eriksen, Marcus; Utz, Ria; Walker, Tony R.; Fürst, Kathinka (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      As the global plastics crisis grows, numerous technologies have been invented and implemented to recover plastic pollution from the environment. Although laudable, unregulated clean-up technologies may be inefficient and ...
    • Inequitable distribution of plastic benefits and burdens on economies and public health 

      Karasik, Rachel; Lauer, Nancy E.; Baker, Anne-Elisabeth; Lisi, Niki E.; Somarelli, Jason A.; Eward, William C.; Fürst, Kathinka; Dunphy-Daly, Meagan M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Plastic heterogeneously affects social systems – notably human health and local and global economies. Here we discuss illustrative examples of the benefits and burdens of each stage of the plastic lifecycle (e.g., macroplastic ...