| Author(s) |
Coffey, Yumiko
Bhullar, Navjot
Durkin, Joanne
Islam, Md Shahidul
Usher, Kim
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| Publication Date |
2021-08
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| Abstract |
Eco-anxiety is the distress caused by climate change where people are becoming anxious about their future. The present scoping reveiw critically evaluated and synthesized the scholarly literature on eco-anxiety and reported it using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses for scoping reviews (PRISMA-ScR). The study aims were twofold: (i) to understand how eco-anxiety was operationalized in the existing literature, and (ii) the key characteristics of eco-anxiety. Our review found that further research is needed to provide conceptual clarity of the term eco-anxiety. We found that most of the evidence comes from the Western countries, and future research is needed in the non-Western countries. Indigenous peoples, children and young people, and those connected to the natural world are most impacted by eco-anxiety and are identified as vulnerable. We recommend employing diverse methodologies to better understand their lived experiences of eco-anxiety.
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| Citation |
The Journal of Climate Change and Health, v.3, p. 1-6
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| ISSN |
2667-2782
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| Link | |
| Language |
en
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| Publisher |
Elsevier BV
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| Rights |
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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| Title |
Understanding Eco-anxiety: A Systematic Scoping Review of Current Literature and Identified Knowledge Gaps
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| Type of document |
Journal Article
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| Entity Type |
Publication
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| openpublished/UnderstandingCoffeyBhullarDurkinIslamUsher2021JournalArticle.pdf | 1130.182 KB | application/pdf | Published version | View document |