Mental health resilience to climate change fostering nature in cities
By: Shoba Raja
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Contributor(s): Harini Nagendra.
Publisher: New Delhi Brijendra S. Dua 2022Edition: Vol.2(70).Description: 95-101p.Subject(s): LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE (AR-LA)Online resources: Click here
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Journal of landscape architectureSummary: We are living amid a climate emergency. The unprecedented heat waves that struck India in April and May 2022 are a stark reminder, as are the cyclones, floods, and droughts that cost the Indian economy 87 billion US$ in 2021 alone [World Meteorological Organization, 2021]. Every year, climate and environmental factors take the lives of around 13 million people [Prüss- Ustün et al. 2016]. Hazards such as air pollution, disease, forced displacement, and food insecurity do not impact physical health alone – they place severe pressure on mental health. Climate change is associated with psychological distress, leading to a worsening of mental health and psychiatric hospitalizations, increasing mortality among people with existing mental illness, and driving up rates of death by suicide [Cianconi et al. 2020].Climate change also has indirect impacts on mental health, affecting populations through its less dramatic but equally severe consequences of increased levels of poverty, unemployment, and homelessness[Charlson, et al. 2021]. In response to this growing awareness of a new reality fact, new terms have been added to the mental health lexicon to describe the connections between climatic events and mental disorders: ecoanxiety, eco guilt, ecopsychology, ecological grief, solastalgia, biospheric concern, and so forth [Cianconi et al. 2020].
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We are living amid a climate emergency. The unprecedented heat waves that struck India in April and May 2022 are a stark reminder, as are the cyclones, floods, and droughts that cost the Indian economy 87 billion US$ in 2021 alone [World Meteorological Organization, 2021]. Every year, climate and environmental factors take the lives of around 13 million people [Prüss- Ustün et al. 2016]. Hazards such as air pollution, disease, forced displacement, and food insecurity do not impact physical health alone – they place severe pressure on mental health. Climate change is associated with psychological distress, leading to a worsening of mental health and psychiatric hospitalizations, increasing mortality among people with existing mental illness, and driving up rates of death by suicide [Cianconi et al. 2020].Climate change also has indirect impacts on mental health, affecting populations through its less dramatic but equally severe consequences of increased levels of poverty, unemployment, and homelessness[Charlson, et al. 2021]. In response to this growing awareness of a new reality fact, new terms have been added to the mental health lexicon to describe the connections between climatic events and mental disorders: ecoanxiety, eco guilt, ecopsychology, ecological grief, solastalgia, biospheric concern, and so forth [Cianconi et al. 2020].
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