How Western Buddhist climate activists negotiate climate emotions DOI Creative Commons
Johannes Cairns, Panu Pihkala

Frontiers in Psychology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 15

Published: Nov. 7, 2024

Understanding the underpinnings of pro-environmental behavior is key to mitigating socio-ecological crisis. Climate emotions have a critical albeit complex role in modulating behavior. Moreover, ideological frames, particularly those from world religions, exert strong influence on behavior, covering most humanity. Among these, Buddhism has long been argued contain elements suited green transition. However, empirical research and ecology scarce, little known about dynamics between climate among Buddhists. In this article, we increase knowledge action by analyzing findings case study investigating thirteen Western Buddhist activists, who operate at intersection environmentalism. Life history thematic interview data shows that interpretations shape attitudes toward profound ways, with respondents manifesting high levels emotional reflexivity. Interpretations compassion interconnectedness facilitate various care for non-human nature. Some participants reported anxiety. Teachings impermanence cultivation equanimity affect engagement grief, anger, despair, hope. karma allow negotiating balance individual guilt allocation responsibility social structures, although emerges as somewhat conflicted participants. Furthermore, emotion norms avoiding anger conflict can prevent collective activation, some were traditional anger. Withdrawal into practice an inner focus was used cope uncertainty burnout, when seen address psychological roots crisis could disengagement. Our contributes interdisciplinary emotions, environmental activism, religion.

Language: Английский

The integrative communicative technologies as a factor in the formation of ecological culture and eco-friendly communication of students DOI Creative Commons

М.М. Черницына,

Viktoria А. Kolmikova

BIO Web of Conferences, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 84, P. 04018 - 04018

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

This paper examines the crucial role of integrative technologies in environmental education students and their impact on processes formation eco-friendly communication. As educational are increasingly integrated into groups, understanding how teachers form an informed attitude to environment society surrounding student is paramount importance. Based relevant research theories, this study various aspects technologies, including communication feedback strategies working with undergraduate students. The article highlights these can significantly affect communication, education, ecological culture contributing a deeper preservation knowledge, skills abilities area. Changes system higher professional caused by increase number problematic issues world as whole under influence global considered. defines attitude, framework education. content concept communicative relation factor analyzed.

Language: Английский

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Ecological Grief Observed from a Distance DOI Creative Commons
Ondřej Beran

Philosophies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 9(2), P. 37 - 37

Published: March 14, 2024

The paper discusses ecological grief as a particular affective phenomenon. First, it offers an overview of several philosophical accounts grief, acknowledging the heterogeneity and complexity experience that responds to personal points importance, concern one’s identity; loss triggering represents blow these. I then argue is equally varied personal: responding what grieving person understands severe enough present intelligibly degradation her life world, their meaningfulness or even sustainability. More specifically, both may manifest in eroded sense future space which one would invest oneself with plans, projects, ideas, desires, endeavours. On other hand, is, some cases, conceptualised having embedded inherent possibility come closure “move on” (e.g., by marrying again), while intelligibility overcoming (replacing) be, depending on its scale, severely limited. this erosion need not take shape paralysing sadness but rather disruption taking options projecting into seriously real.

Language: Английский

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Characterizing personalized ecologies DOI Creative Commons
Kevin J. Gaston

Journal of Zoology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 322(4), P. 291 - 308

Published: March 13, 2024

Abstract People have unique sets of direct sensory interactions with wild species, which change through their days, weeks, seasons, and lifetimes. Despite having important influences on health well‐being attitudes towards nature, these personalized ecologies remain surprisingly little studied are poorly understood. However, much can be inferred about by considering them from first principles (largely macroecological), alongside insights research into the design effectiveness biodiversity monitoring programmes, knowledge how animals respond to people, studies human biology demography. Here I review three major drivers, opportunity, capability motivation, shape people's ecologies. Second, then explore implications mechanisms for more passively actively practical improvements made in Particularly light declines richness that being experienced world (the so‐called ‘extinction experience’), significant consequences, marked improvement many experiences nature may key future biodiversity.

Language: Английский

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How Western Buddhist climate activists negotiate climate emotions DOI Creative Commons
Johannes Cairns, Panu Pihkala

Frontiers in Psychology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 15

Published: Nov. 7, 2024

Understanding the underpinnings of pro-environmental behavior is key to mitigating socio-ecological crisis. Climate emotions have a critical albeit complex role in modulating behavior. Moreover, ideological frames, particularly those from world religions, exert strong influence on behavior, covering most humanity. Among these, Buddhism has long been argued contain elements suited green transition. However, empirical research and ecology scarce, little known about dynamics between climate among Buddhists. In this article, we increase knowledge action by analyzing findings case study investigating thirteen Western Buddhist activists, who operate at intersection environmentalism. Life history thematic interview data shows that interpretations shape attitudes toward profound ways, with respondents manifesting high levels emotional reflexivity. Interpretations compassion interconnectedness facilitate various care for non-human nature. Some participants reported anxiety. Teachings impermanence cultivation equanimity affect engagement grief, anger, despair, hope. karma allow negotiating balance individual guilt allocation responsibility social structures, although emerges as somewhat conflicted participants. Furthermore, emotion norms avoiding anger conflict can prevent collective activation, some were traditional anger. Withdrawal into practice an inner focus was used cope uncertainty burnout, when seen address psychological roots crisis could disengagement. Our contributes interdisciplinary emotions, environmental activism, religion.

Language: Английский

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