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Title: | Solastalgia: Living with the Environmental Damage Caused By Natural Disasters | Contributor(s): | Warsini, Sri (author); Mills, Jane (author); Usher, Kim (author) | Publication Date: | 2014 | DOI: | 10.1017/S1049023X13009266 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/17237 | Abstract: | Forced separation from one's home may trigger emotional distress. People who remain in their homes may experience emotional distress due to living in a severely damaged environment. These people experience a type of 'homesickness' similar to nostalgia because the land around them no longer resembles the home they knew and loved. What they lack is solace or comfort from their home; they long for the home environment to be the way it was before. 'Solastalgia' is a term created to describe feelings which arise in people when an environment changes so much that it negatively affects an individual's quality of life. Such changed environments may include drought-stricken areas and opencut mines. The aim of this article is to describe how solastalgia, originally conceptualized as the result of man-made environmental change, can be similarly applied to the survivors of natural disasters. Using volcanic eruptions as a case example, the authors argue that people who experience a natural disaster are likely to suffer from solastalgia for a number of reasons, which may include the loss of housing, livestock and farmland, and the ongoing danger of living in a disaster-prone area. These losses and fears challenge people's established sense of place and identity and can lead to feelings of helplessness and depression. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 29(1), p. 87-90 | Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 1945-1938 1049-023X |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 420599 Nursing not elsewhere classified | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 929999 Health not elsewhere classified | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 200201 Determinants of health | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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