2nd Edition: The Psychological Impacts of Global Climate Change
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 6453
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Geography – Atmospheric Science Program, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30677, USA
Interests: psychology of weather and climate; weather salience; weather-related risk-taking; weather perception; weather-as-events; global climate change; weather and emotional processes
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Severe or extreme weather events that can be attributed to global climate change are increasingly prevalent. Similarly, the cumulative effects of altered temperature and precipitation regimes can create personal, social, or economic impacts that develop and evolve over time. What are the psychological impacts of such single and multiple events as a result of climate change? Here, psychological impacts encompass not only changes in the emotional responses of individuals, but changes in perceptual processes, thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors in response to experienced or anticipated climate change. Is climate change inducing new psychological phenomena and experiences and/or exacerbating existing psychological challenges? This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health invites the submission of quantitative or qualitative empirical research that addresses this question and in so doing reveals something novel about peoples’ psychological relationships with weather or climate. Although research regarding global climate change is integrative and multidisciplinary, submissions to this Special Issue should be primarily psychological in nature and possess implications for mental and/or physical health. Individual people or families should be the units of analysis used in submitted research. Some illustrative topics for this Special Issue are:
- How do personality traits and psychological coping mechanisms combine with the experience of climate change to produce psychological responses to climate change impacts?
- Is climate change inducing new psychological phenomena and experiences and/or exacerbating existing psychological challenges?
- Studies of individual traits or characteristics that can make the experiences of climate change more challenging or difficult.
- Changes in perception, thinking, or reasoning about climate change following the experience of a severe or extreme weather event.
- Studies of individual traits or characteristics that may be helpful in adjusting to the impacts of climate change.
Prof. Dr. Alan E. Stewart
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- adaptation
- affect/emotion
- cognition
- climate change
- individual differences
- meaning making
- personality traits
- climate change anxiety
- climate change worry
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