Impact of Climate Change on Social and Mental Well-Being

1st Edition - August 13, 2024
Editors: Muskan Garg, Deepak Kumar, Debabrata Samanta, Anuradha Sathiyaseelan
Language: English
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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.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. 5G-RF emission from wearable devices: Risk to human health and mitigation
1. Introduction
2. Related works
3. 5G mobile technology
4. RF exposure
5. 5G and human health
6. 5G exposure matrices
7. Health risk associated with 5G
8. Risk mitigation
9. Conclusion
Chapter 2. Mindfulness in the context of climate change: Roadmap for sustainability!
1. Introduction
2. Background of the study
3. Conceptual framework and proposed model
4. Discussion and conclusion
Chapter 3. Confronting the nexus of climate change: Mental health, food security, and social stability
1. Introduction
2. Effects of climate change on mental health
3. Climate change's effects on food security
4. Disasters associated with climate change
5. Addressing disasters associated with climate change
6. Mental health interventions and coping strategies
7. Ensuring food security in a changing climate
8. Toward a holistic approach: Integrating mental health, food security, and social stability
9. Conclusion—Confronting the nexus and building a sustainable future
Declarations
Chapter 4. Climate crisis chronicles: Navigating eco anxiety and climate related distress
1. Introduction
2. Understanding the climate crisis
3. Eco-anxiety and climate-related distress: Psychological perspectives
4. Prevalence and manifestations of eco-anxiety and climate-related distress
5. Factors contributing to eco-anxiety and climate-related distress
6. Coping mechanisms and strategies in response to environmental anxieties
7. Policy implications and recommendations
Chapter 5. Climate change and mental health risks: A qualitative approach
1. Introduction
2. Mental health risks
3. Method and measures
4. Results
5. Discussion
6. Eco-emotions
7. Limitations
8. Implication
9. Conclusion
Chapter 6. Impact of climate adaption and resilience on mental and social wellbeing
1. Introduction
2. Concept of resilience and adaptation
3. The impact of changed climatic conditions on the social and mental well-being of its stakeholders
4. Individual efforts to adapt and resilience toward climatic change to enhance the mental and social well-being of stakeholders
5. Conclusion
Chapter 7. Climate, agriculture, and farmer's mental health: Unravelling the nexus in Wayanad, Kerala
1. Introduction
2. Literature review
3. Methodology
4. Findings
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion
Chapter 8. The psychosocial correlates of alterations in climate among children
1. Introduction
2. Bio-psycho-social distinctions between children and adults
3. Risks to children from changes in climate
4. Pathways
5. Psychosocial well-being
6. Psychosocial impact of alterations in climate on children
7. Interventions
8. Directions of future research
9. Summary and conclusion
Chapter 9. A qualitative study on eco-anxiety, climatic change distress, climate resilience, and intentional activities among vulnerable adults
1. Introduction
2. Review of literature
3. Methodology
4. Results and discussion
5. Conclusion
Chapter 10. Green space and mental well-being research in India: An urgent need for intervention
1. Background
2. Findings
3. Conclusion and recommendations
Chapter 11. Impact of climate change and environmental degradation on agriculture and the quality life of farmers: A comprehensive analysis
1. Introduction
2. Literature review
3. Research methodology
4. Hypotheses
5. Empirical results
6. Conclusion and recommendations
Chapter 12. Perseverance matters: Adult risk attitude toward health and psychological well-being
1. Introduction
2. Methods
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusion
Chapter 13. Understanding public perceptions, attitudes, and awareness of air pollution and its effects on health
1. Introduction
2. About Brahmapuram
3. Research methodology
4. Results and discussion
5. Conclusion
6. Practical implications to reduce air pollution
Chapter 14. Impact of environmental identity and eco-anxiety on mental health among two generation people (Gen X and Z)
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. Procedure
4. Statistical analysis
5. Results and discussion
6. Conclusion
7. Limitations
8. Implications for the future study
Chapter 15. The impact of climate based natural disasters on children's mental health and wellbeing: A systematic review
1. Introduction
2. Rationale of the study
3. Methods and procedure
4. Findings
5. Suggestion
6. Conclusion
Chapter 16. The mental health climate crisis: Unveiling the hidden consequences of global warming
1. Introduction
2. Impact of climate change on mental health
3. Discussion
4. Cases on relationship between climate change and mental health
5. Ways to cure the heterogeneity in mental sickness due to climate change
6. Recommendation for improvement
7. Conclusion
Chapter 17. Unraveling the psychological toll: Understanding eco-anxiety as a consequence of climate change
1. Introduction
2. Factors driving eco-anxiety
3. Impacts of catastrophes, disasters, and climate migration on mental health
4. Climate psychology toward a better future
5. Conclusion
Chapter 18. Yellow leaf disease, climate change, and its impact on the life of farmers in Sullia
1. Introduction
2. Research problem
3. Discussion
4. Conclusion
Index

Muskan Garg

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.

Affiliations and expertise

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

Deepak Kumar

Dr. Deepak Kumar is an early career academic research professional with a multidisciplinary academic background in geospatial sciences, computational sciences, climate change, and sustainability with over 10 years of experience. Dr Kumar has been working in interdisciplinary research towards the urban–climate–energy nexus to advance policies considering humanities, social science, and technology perspectives. Presently, he is working as a Research Scientist at the Center of Excellence in Weather and Climate Analytics, Atmospheric Science Research Center (ASRC), State University of New York at Albany, New York (United States). He has been also associated as a full-time Assistant Professor with Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, Noida (India). He has been revisiting a wide range of issues associated with traditional research activities in the intersection area of remote sensing and geoinformatics, environment, energy, climate change, urban weather and climate modelling, analysis, and visualization. He has wide experience in research pipeline embracing idea conceptualization, research design, data collection, processing, analysis and result generation. He completed two government-sponsored research projects sponsored as a sole principal investigator, supervised cross-functional research group of 4 PhD and 29 postgraduate students, and conducted 15 academic, research, and industrial visits for undergraduate students. He has published 50+ research articles in a high-impact web of science/Scopus-indexed international journals by Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Emerald, SAGE, and Wiley publications. He has reviewed more than 220+ research articles as an ad hoc/adjunct/invited reviewer or editorial board member for high-impact factor journals published by IEEE, Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis Group, Wiley, SAGE, Emerald, and MDPI. He has authored/edited/co-edited 9 books with Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Emerald, SAGE, and Wiley publications. He has been dedicated to finding solutions to complex problems in the areas of climate change, urban planning, energy, the environment, and sustainability (SDGs 7, 10, 11, and 13).

Affiliations and expertise

Research Scientist Center of Excellence in Weather and Climate Analytics, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC) and Amity Institute of Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing (AIGIRS)University, Albany, State University of New York, NY, USA

Debabrata Samanta

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).

Affiliations and expertise

Department of Computing and Information Technologies, Rochester Institute of Technology, Republic of Kosovo

Anuradha Sathiyaseelan

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.

Affiliations and expertise

Professor, Department of Psychology, Christ University, Bangalore, India

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