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Impact of the citizen science project COLLECT on ocean literacy and well-being within a north/west African and south-east Asian context. <i>Frontiers in Psychology 14</i>: 1130596. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1130596\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1130596</a>","BEntID":362953,"PublicFlag":1,"CheckedFlag":1,"wosflag":1,"vabbflag":1,"RefStringPartII":". <i>Frontiers in Psychology 14</i>: 1130596. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1130596\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1130596</a>","DocTypID":8,"DocType":"Journal article","MarineFlag":0,"FreshFlag":0,"BrackishFlag":0,"TerrestrialFlag":0,"Authorstring":"Severin, M.I.; Akpetou, K.L.; Annasawmy, P.A.; Asuquo, F.E.; Beckman, F.; Benomar, M.; Jaya-Ram, A.; Malouli, M.; Mees, J.; Monteiro, I.; Ndwiga, J.; Neves Silva, P.; Nubi, O.A.; Sim, Y.K.; Sohou, Z.; Tan Shau Hwai, A.; Woo, S.P.; Zizah, S.; Buysse, A.; Raes, F.; Krug, L.A.; Seeyave, S.; Everaert, G.; Mahu, E.; Catarino, A.I.","OrigTitleTranslFlag":0,"Authorstringtrunc":"Severin, M.I. <i>et al.</i>","Englishabstract":"Plastic pollution is both a societal and environmental problem and citizen science has shown to be a useful tool to engage both the public and professionals in addressing it. 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