Eco-anxiety and pandemic distress : psychological perspectives on resilience and interconnectedness /
edited by Douglas A. Vakoch, PhD, and Sam Mickey, PhD.
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Eco-Anxiety, Climate Change, and the Coronavirus / Cultivating Connection and Resilience. Cultivating Belonging: Healing Defensive Anxiety in Times of Collective Trauma / From Eco-Anxiety to Eco-Resilience: Toward a Psychology of Care / Walking, Wilderness, and Exposure: Learning from Thoreau's Episode on Katahdin / Self-Quarantine: Deepening Natural Encounter During COVID-19 / Setting Up for Practice with Eco-Conscious Clients / Sociology and Cultural Psychology. Eco-Anxiety as a Global Affect / Eco-Anxiety in a Risk Society: A Sociological Perspective / The Complex Role of Anxiety in Public Engagement: Lessons from the COVID-19 Crisis for Climate Communications / Behavior Change During COVID-19: A Matter of Life and Death? / Diverse Global Responses. The House of Man: Sheltering in the Anthropocene / Adapting to Eco-Anxiety: Experiences from Zambia / Psychiatric Ward Lockdown in Latin America: Experiences from the Coronavirus Pandemic / Telepsychology as the Primary Mental Health Care Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippine / Sounding the Environmental Benefits of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Southern Nigeria / Panu Pihkala -- Jan Edl Stein -- Linda Buzzell, Craig Chalquist -- Christopher C. Kirby -- Elektra Mercutio -- Jamie Keaton Jones -- Jaouad Achtitah, Said Mentak -- Leonard A. Steverson -- Rhéa Rocque, Laura Cameron, Ian Mauro -- Filia Garivaldis, Muhammad Iqbal -- Susan Haris, Bharati Puri -- Fred Moonga -- Juan Evangelista Tercero Gaitán Buitrago -- Emmanuel Villoria Hernani -- Olusegun Stephen Titus. Introduction: Part 1 1 2 3 4 5 Part 2 6 7 8 9 Part 3 10 11 12 13 14
"Through much of 2020 and into 2021, nations throughout the world locked down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Before then, the most pressing global anxiety for many people was climate anxiety. However, these phenomena are in many ways interconnected. Many of the elements in the global economic and logistical systems cause both ecological problems and vulnerability to pandemics. When pandemics happen, they influence ecological problems-for better or worse. In turn, ecological dynamics shape pandemics"--