Impact of Climate Change on Social and Mental Well-Being

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-0-443-23788-1
Verlag: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 227 mm x 151 mm, Gewicht: 604 g

Impact of Climate Change on Social and Mental Well-Being, increases the awareness and understanding of how global climate change, including natural disasters, loss of habitat, and displacement can affect social and mental well-being. This book provides valuable insights into the connection between environmental issues and mental health, and the long-term implications of these issues. Sections dedicated to adaptation and solutions, offer coping mechanisms and strategies for eco-anxiety and climate grief. This book also explores the social, economic, and political factors that contribute to climate change and how these factors impact human well-being.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sathiyaseelan, Anuradha

Garg, Muskan

Samanta, Debabrata

Kumar, Deepak

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. 5G-RF emission from wearable devices: Risk to human health and mitigation
Devasis Pradhan, Sonali Kadam and Nitin S. Goje
2. Mindfulness in the context of climate change: Roadmap for sustainability!
Sunita Dwivedi and Shinu Vig
3. Confronting the nexus of climate change: Mental health, food security, and social stability
Sheetal Kumari and Manoj Chandra Garg
4. Climate crisis chronicles: Navigating eco anxiety and climate related distress
Madhavi Sripathi and T.S. Leelavati
5. Climate change and mental health risks: A qualitative approach
U. Vijayabanu, V.D. Swaminathan and Kalpitha
6. Impact of climate adaption and resilience on mental and social wellbeing
Kiran Vazirani, Rameesha Kalra and Sunanda Vincent Jaiwant
7. Climate, agriculture, and farmer’s mental health: Unravelling the nexus in Wayanad,
Kerala Rahul R. Menon and Manjusha G. Warrier
8. The psychosocial correlates of alterations in climate among children
Alka Ranjan
9. A qualitative study on eco-anxiety, climatic change distress, climate resilience, and intentional activities among vulnerable adults
Anantharaman Seethalakshmy, P. Kaviya, Akhiya Shaji and A.B. Alaguharani
10. Green space and mental well-being research in India: An urgent need for intervention
Bidisha Banerjee, Sandhya Basu and Lokesh Kumar
11. Impact of climate change and environmental degra- dation on agriculture and the quality life of farmers: A comprehensive analysis
H. Saranya and Mahalaxmi Shivshankar Tiwari
12. Perseverance matters: Adult risk attitude toward health and psychological well-being
R. Maya, V.J. Anjana and B. Nanthini
13. Understanding public perceptions, attitudes, and awareness of air pollution and its effects on health
Renju Chandran, Bindusree A.R. and M.C. Sarath Chandran
14. Impact of environmental identity and eco-anxiety on mental health among two generation people (Gen X and Z)
SHA Showmiya and G. Sajeeth Kumar
15. The impact of climate based natural disasters on children’s mental health and wellbeing: A systematic review
D. Simona and K.S. Amritha
16. The mental health climate crisis: Unveiling the hidden consequences of global warming
Sunita Kumar, F.C.M.A. Nabanita Ghosh and Shivi Khanna
17. Unraveling the psychological toll: Understanding eco-anxiety as a consequence of climate change
Harshita Mishra and Gabriela Michael
18. Yellow leaf disease, climate change, and its impact on the life of farmers in Sullia
Akhila Chakshu Narayan

Über Autor(innen)

Garg, Muskan
Dr. Muskan Garg is working as a postdoctoral research fellow at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. She was previously working as Postdoctoral research associate at University of Florida and as an assistant professor in Thapar institute of engineering and technology, Patiala. Her research focuses on the problems in natural language processing, information retrieval, and social media analysis. She received her Masters and PhD from Panjab University, India. Prior to TIET, she worked as an assistant professor in Amity school of engineering and technology at Amity University. Her focus is on research and development of cutting-edge NLP approaches to solving problems of national and international importance and on initiation and broadening a new program in natural language processing (including a new NLP course series). Her current research interests are causal inference, mental health on social media, event detection and sentiment analysis. She contributes as a reviewer in The ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP) and Expert Systems with Applications, and prestigious conferences such as ACL, ICWSM, and EACL.

Samanta, Debabrata
Debabrata Samanta is an Assistant Professor & Program Head, at the Department of Computing and Information Technologies, Rochester Institute of Technology, Kosovo, Europe. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engg. in the area of SAR Image Processing. He is keenly interested in Interdisciplinary Research and development and has experience spanning fields of SAR Image Analysis, Video surveillance, a Heuristic algorithm for Image Classification, Deep Learning Framework for Detection and Classification, Blockchain, Statistical Modelling, Wireless Adhoc Networks, Natural Language Processing. He has successfully completed six Consultancy Projects. He owns 22 Patents (4 Design Indian Patents and 2 Australian patents Granted, 16 Indian Patents published) and 2 copyrights. He has authored or co-authored over 224 research papers; he has co-authored 13 books and co-edited 13 books. He has presented various papers at international conferences and received Best Paper awards. He is an IEEE Senior Member, an Associate Life Member of the Computer Society of India (CSI), and a Life Member of the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE).

Sathiyaseelan, Anuradha
Dr. Anuradha Sathiyaseelan degree in Psychology and in Rehabilitation Science from The Tamilnadu Dr.MGR Medical University from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She has also completed MBA in Human Resource and Management. She has worked in the field of mental health for 25 years in various institutions' such as Schizophrenia Research Foundations which is a WHO collaborative centre for research in mental health in India and Narayana Hrudayalaya. Presently working as a Professor in the Department of Psychology, Christ University, Bangalore. She is guiding research scholars for the award of Ph.D degree in Psychology in the area Psycho Oncology, Clinical psychology, Positive psychology and Health psychology. She is serving as academic council member, member of board of examinations, member of prestigious institutions such as World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation (WAPR) APA, SRA and other universities.

Kumar, Deepak
Dr. Deepak Kumar is an academic researcher with a multidisciplinary background in Geospatial Sciences, Computational Sciences, Climate Change, and Sustainability. Currently a Research Scientist in the Atmospheric Sciences Group at Texas Tech University. Previously he served as Research Scientist in the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center at the State University of New York at Albany from August 2022 to November 2024. He's worked in the interdisciplinary research domain of the Urban-Climate-Energy nexus for policy making with humanities, social science, and technology perspectives. At Amity University, Delhi-NCR he was an Assistant Professor. His wide experience in the research development-cum-implementation pipeline comprising idea conceptualization, research design, data collection, processing, analysis, with result creation in the intersection areas of remote sensing and geoinformatics, environment, energy, climate change, urban weather and climate modelling, analysis, and visualization. He enjoys developing skills through conference appearances, outreach activities, training services and contributions to professional membership of scholarly associations.