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      The spiritual significance of glaciers in an age of climate change : The spiritual significance of glaciers in an age of climate change

      Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
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          Epistemic Injustice

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            Solastalgia: the distress caused by environmental change.

            Solastalgia is a new concept developed to give greater meaning and clarity to environmentally induced distress. As opposed to nostalgia--the melancholia or homesickness experienced by individuals when separated from a loved home--solastalgia is the distress that is produced by environmental change impacting on people while they are directly connected to their home environment. The paper will focus on two contexts where collaborative research teams have found solastalgia to be evident: the experiences of persistent drought in rural NSW and the impact of large-scale open-cut coal mining on individuals in the Upper Hunter Valley of NSW. In both cases, people exposed to environmental change experienced negative affect that is exacerbated by a sense of powerlessness or lack of control over the unfolding change process. Qualitative (interviews and focus groups) and quantitative (community-based surveys) research has been conducted on the lived experience of drought and mining, and the findings relevant to solastalgia are presented. The authors are exploring the potential uses and applications of the concept of solastalgia for understanding the psychological impact of the increasing incidence of environmental change worldwide. Worldwide, there is an increase in ecosystem distress syndromes matched by a corresponding increase in human distress syndromes. The specific role played by global-scale environmental challenges to 'sense of place' and identity will be explored in the future development of the concept of solastalgia.
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              LINGUISTIC, CULTURAL, AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

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                Journal
                Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
                WIREs Clim Change
                Wiley-Blackwell
                17577780
                September 2015
                September 2015
                : 6
                : 5
                : 493-508
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                10.1002/wcc.354
                e90d9cf9-937c-48fd-98e3-910cd88af8cc
                © 2015

                http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1.1

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