What role do social-ecological factors play in ecological grief?: Insights from a global scoping review

Journal of Environmental Psychology, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 93, P. 102184 - 102184

Published: Nov. 18, 2023

As climate change and biodiversity loss affect more places across the globe, reports of ecological grief – an emotional response to valued places, species, or ecosystems are becoming increasingly common. Research suggests that social-ecological context plays a key role in influencing how is experienced. However, while recent scoping reviews have focused on understanding relationships between environmental mental health from psychological clinical perspective, to-date no review has applied lens arises within specific places. Here, we use better understand conditions shape grief, drawing global review. Focusing period since 2018, when term was popularised, identify discuss four broad types factors influence lived experience for environment biophysical losses underpin geographical settings contextualise people including place meanings, values attachments; facets social identity socio-political (structural) processes individuals communities loss. Our highlights importance structural shaping individual experiences examining through intersectional can help it as layered resulting mediation changes by place-based identity-related factors.

Language: Английский

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Solastalgia following the Australian summer of bushfires: Qualitative and quantitative insights about environmental distress and recovery

Journal of Environmental Psychology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 95, P. 102273 - 102273

Published: Feb. 29, 2024

People derive less solace from environments that become degraded or destroyed, which is an experience called solastalgia. In the wake of Australia's 2019–2020 bushfires, many Australians faced a markedly different natural environment: one, for example, charred by fire and void animals once lived there. We examined experiences solastalgia through individual, semi-structured interviews (N = 22) quantitative survey 592) with members bushfire-affected communities in Australia. interviews, bushfire survivors described using environmental cues to understand prepare risk, how change led emotions sadness frustration as well personal regrowth resilience. also identified temporal aspects solastalgia, including anticipatory form distinguished fears about future fires loss. Survey data showed participants experiencing greater reported higher symptoms post-traumatic stress anxiety, feeling more anger loss control. Arid areas around globe will be affected bushfires increasing intensity frequency climate changes. Our findings provide timely insights into likely psychological effects such change.

Language: Английский

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Anticipatory solastalgia in the Antipodes: Evidence of future-oriented distress about environmental change in Australia and New Zealand

The Journal of Climate Change and Health, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 100415 - 100415

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Finding mobility in place attachment research: lessons for managed retreat

Frontiers in Climate, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 7

Published: Feb. 11, 2025

Climate change will affect many global landscapes in the future, requiring millions of people to move away from areas at risk flooding, erosion, drought and extreme temperatures. The term managed retreat is increasingly used Global North refer movement infrastructure climate risks. Managed retreat, however, has proven be one most difficult adaptation options undertake because complex economic, social-cultural psychological factors that shape individual community responses relocation process. Among these factors, place attachment expected possibilities for disrupts bonds identities individuals communities have invested place. Research intersection limited, partially are complicated constructs, each with confusing terminologies. By viewing concept as a form mobility-based adaptation, this paper attempts gain insights other mobility-related fields. We find mobility research contributed development more dynamic view attachment: such explored role either constraining or prompting decisions relocate, started explore how process responds disruptions influences recovery relocation. Beyond informing scholars practitioners, synthesis identifies several need attention. These needs include qualitative better understand dualistic attachments longitudinal about experiences fully comprehend during after relocation, increased exploration whether can help provide stability continuity

Language: Английский

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Anticipatory solastalgia in the Anthropocene: Climate change as a source of future-oriented distress about environmental change

Journal of Environmental Psychology, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 91, P. 102134 - 102134

Published: Sept. 6, 2023

When people feel distress about changes to their environment, they are said be experiencing solastalgia. In the context of rising concern climate change, I examined whether endorse an anticipatory form solastalgia: current expected future environment. reword Brief Solastalgia Scale examine experiences solastalgia in United Kingdom (n = 509) and States 493). The resulting Anticipatory performed well, correlational analyses show that younger women experience heightened US sample (but not UK sample). both samples, was higher among those with a liberal political orientation, who more significant impacts change reporting intense negative emotions change. These findings support existence highlight emotional toll environmental loss decline.

Language: Английский

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Living on the edge: how do perceptions of coastal erosion risk affect residential mobility decisions?

Local Environment, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 15

Published: Feb. 23, 2025

This paper explores the experiences of households affected by coastal erosion. In England alone 82,000 properties are predicted to be at risk 2100. The advances understanding effects erosion upon residential mobility decision-making, via interviews with residents living in areas along Holderness Coast UK, fastest eroding coastline Europe. research illustrates that whilst moves into seemingly irrational, they fact result intuitive and individual judgments perception risks benefits. Participants report negative impacts study area (e.g. loss physical infrastructure), yet it was also clear derived many benefits from within area, including appreciation seascape access natural amenities. There a strong emotional connection associated meaning participants were unwilling move away. For some, impact house prices meant some household's financial resources could not support away risk, for others benefit discounted home served encourage despite presence risk. evidence has several implications management Whilst outright compensation is advocated this paper, there need additional relocation, which should include roll-back provision appropriate suitability located alternative accommodation, particularly lower-income households.

Language: Английский

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Navigating psychosocial dimensions: understanding the intersections of adaptation strategies and well-being outcomes in the context of climate change

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 72, P. 101493 - 101493

Published: Dec. 14, 2024

Language: Английский

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Coastal residents' affective engagement with the natural and constructed environment

People and Nature, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 6(1), P. 165 - 179

Published: Nov. 22, 2023

Abstract Coastal communities and their landscapes are subject to constant change, today face new challenges as a result of climate change the sustainable energy transition. To ensure resilience coastal ongoing changes in natural constructed environment, it is imperative that planners other decision‐makers understand importance local places residents. We used an interdisciplinary, mixed‐methods approach study relationships between residents south Co. Wicklow, Ireland, introducing concept ‘affective engagement’. Grounded materialist theory (notably actor–network theory), this term connects meaning derived by from with (‘affect’) extent material interactions (‘engagement’). ‘Affect’ was determined thematic analysis interviews open questionnaire responses, well place attachment scales included questionnaire. Measures describing strength relationship were proxy for ‘engagement’. how experienced interaction interlink, principal component (PCA) join visually explore different measures ‘affect’ Potentially mediating sociodemographic variables investigated using permutational multivariate variance (PERMANOVA). The majority self‐selected participants displayed strong most frequently visited places. found affective engagement does not vary age, gender or type place. Participants favoured equal measure. This implies can be high value due functions individuals, landscape transformations may impact on if they cause functionality. two domains comprising measurable quantitative qualitative data alone. first these driven attachments places, meanings relating either personal social fulfilment afforded Our findings help better behind support (or resistance against) transformations, residents' might impacted proposed interventions. Read free Plain Language Summary article Journal blog.

Language: Английский

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Postcolonial Ecology & The Cunning of Modernity: Iyat Ekhon Aranya Asil as a Critiqu

Southeast Asian Review of English, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 61(1), P. 5 - 27

Published: July 1, 2024

Anuradha Sharma Pujari’s Iyat Ekhon Aranya Asil is a powerful critique of the effect modernity on postcolonial ecology. The novel explores relationship between modern city life and loss animal habitat in surrounding hills forests. unnamed narrator, journalist by profession, has been strategically used as mouthpiece author to underbelly society where ease could be sustained only exploiting land labour. Drawing from findings made decolonial critics like Walter Mignolo Anibal Quijano connection global modernity, colonialism, capitalism, we argue that context, this double exploitation can perpetuated through consent political manipulation complicit public. An ambivalent emotional response protagonist exposes nature privileged class which thrives such exploitation. In essay, shall explore complex networking entangles life, politics, landless squatters symbiotic utterly disregards non-human lives. We further argue, emotions eco-anxiety solastalgia are foreshadowed survival needs contexts. Keywords: Solastalgia, Ecoanxiety, Ecopolitics, Forest Wails, Assam, Colonial Modernity

Language: Английский

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Harnessing Dataspace to Transform Climate Resilience and Adaptation in Coastal Regions: Case Studies from the Republic of Ireland

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

Language: Английский

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