Section of Clinical and Biological Psychology, Catholic University Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, 85072 Eichstaett, Germany.
ARQ National Psychotrauma Centre, 1112 XE Diemen, The Netherlands.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jan 16;18(2):734. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18020734.
The perception of the impact of climate change on the environment is becoming a lived experience for more and more people. Several new terms for climate change-induced distress have been introduced to describe the long-term emotional consequences of anticipated or actual environmental changes, with ecological grief as a prime example. The mourning of the loss of ecosystems, landscapes, species and ways of life is likely to become a more frequent experience around the world. However, there is a lack of conceptual clarity and systematic research efforts with regard to such ecological grief. This perspective article introduces the concept of ecological grief and contextualizes it within the field of bereavement. We provide a case description of a mountaineer in Central Europe dealing with ecological grief. We introduce ways by which ecological grief may pose a mental health risk and/or motivate environmental behavior and delineate aspects by which it can be differentiated from related concepts of solastalgia and eco-anxiety. In conclusion, we offer a systematic agenda for future research that is embedded in the context of disaster mental health and bereavement research.
气候变化对环境的影响，越来越多的人开始有所感知。人们引入了一些新术语来描述气候变化带来的痛苦，以描述对预期或实际环境变化的长期情绪后果，其中生态悲痛就是一个很好的例子。对生态系统、景观、物种和生活方式丧失的哀悼，可能会在世界各地变得更加频繁。然而，在这种生态悲痛方面，缺乏概念上的清晰性和系统的研究努力。本文从概念上介绍了生态悲痛的概念，并将其置于丧亲领域内进行了定位。我们提供了一个中欧登山者应对生态悲痛的案例描述。我们介绍了生态悲痛可能带来心理健康风险和/或激发环境行为的方式，并描述了将其与相关概念，如索拉思替亚和生态焦虑区分开来的方面。最后，我们提出了一个系统的研究议程，该议程嵌入了灾难心理健康和丧亲研究的背景下。
