Marine Plastic Research Inventory

RRI 2.0

National University of Singapore; Centre for International Law; Tropical Marine Science Institute

Description

RRI 2.0 is a database of information extracted from the publications found by the regional team. As of 13 December 2021, it includes 701 publications.

Publications included in the inventory

RRI 2.0 includes all the published research material that could be found online by the regional team (see ‘About’) on pollution from marine plastics in the seas of East Asia and responses to it in all fields of research. These therefore include scientific publications as well as research publications from humanities (ie, law, policy, political science, social science and economics). In addition to research publications in the English language, the regional team actively looked for publications in local languages and extracted them into the inventory, with the support of local members of the team.

Organisation of the publication and extracted data

For each of the publication captured, data has been extracted systematically into more than 80 metadata fields, as set out in the methodology. Further details of the research methodology are available in the  Methodology and Ontology.

A regional team effort

RRI 2.0 could not have been developed without the research energy of regional researchers focused on the protection of the marine environment and their goodwill to cooperate in order to improve the status of the marine environment in general, including from marine plastics. The regional team hopes that RRI 2.0 can be further developed and leveraged for policy-making purposes with continuing regional cooperation and partnership between research institutions.

Impetus and funding for its development

RRI 2.0 builds on the work conducted by the marine plastic policy team of NUS since 2018 which led to a first version of the research inventory in early 2020. It also relies on the regional research network developed in parallel. These two inventories have been developed as deliverables of a project supported by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA) and the Global Partnership on Marine Litter (GPML) and with funding from the SEA circular project supported by the Government of Sweden. Part of the funding required is also provided by complementary research funding to members of the teams from the NUS Centre for International Law (CIL) and the Tropical Marine Science Institute (TMSI).

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