Journal articles: 'Climate worry'

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Lawton, Graham. "World leaders worry about climate chaos." New Scientist 241, no. 3214 (January 2019): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0262-4079(19)30141-1.

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Gregersen, Thea, Rouven Doran, Gisela Böhm, and Wouter Poortinga. "Outcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors." PLOS ONE 16, no. 5 (May 26, 2021): e0252105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252105.

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This paper explores whether efficacy beliefs can alter the relationship between worry about climate change and personal energy-saving behaviors, controlling for climate change beliefs and socio-demographics. For this purpose, we used data from 23 countries that participated in the European Social Survey Round 8 (N = 44 387). Worry about climate change, personal efficacy, personal outcome expectancy, and collective outcome expectancy were each associated with personal energy-saving behaviors concerning either energy curtailment or energy efficiency. The results further show that outcome expectancies moderate the association between worry about climate change and both types of energy behaviors. Worry was more strongly related to energy curtailment behaviors among those with high levels of personal and collective outcome expectancy. A similar pattern was found for energy efficiency behaviors, which were more strongly predicted by worry about climate change when combined with high levels of collective outcome expectancy. These findings are relevant for climate change communication, especially informational campaigns aiming to lower overall household energy use.

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Bouman, Thijs, Mark Verschoor, Casper J. Albers, Gisela Böhm, Stephen D. Fisher, Wouter Poortinga, Lorraine Whitmarsh, and Linda Steg. "When worry about climate change leads to climate action: How values, worry and personal responsibility relate to various climate actions." Global Environmental Change 62 (May 2020): 102061. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102061.

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Berry, Helen L., and Dominic Peel. "Worrying about climate change: is it responsible to promote public debate?" BJPsych. International 12, no. 2 (May 2015): 31–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/s2056474000000234.

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Some fear that provoking widespread worry about climate change may harm mental health. The Regional Wellbeing Survey, a large study of health, well-being and life in rural and regional Australia, examined climate change worry and attitudes. Most respondents were worried about climate change and agreed that fossil fuel use causes global warming, but there was no evidence to suggest that worry about climate change is linked to mental health in the general population. Respectful, calm, considered public debate about how to respond to climate change is unlikely to be harmful to population mental health. Individually focused clinical approaches are unlikely to be effective as a primary approach in managing the mental health impacts of climate change. Instead, collective, systems-based approaches will be needed.

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Stewart, Alan E. "Psychometric Properties of the Climate Change Worry Scale." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 2 (January 9, 2021): 494. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18020494.

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Climate change worry involves primarily verbal-linguistic thoughts about the changes that may occur in the climate system and the possible effects of these changes. Such worry is one of several possible psychological responses (e.g., fear, anxiety, depression, and trauma) to climate change. Within this article, the psychometric development of the ten-item Climate Change Worry Scale (CCWS) is detailed in three studies. The scale was developed to assess proximal worry about climate change rather than social or global impacts. Study 1 provided evidence that the CCWS items were internally consistent, constituted a single factor, and that the facture structure of the items was invariant for men and women. The results from Study 1 also indicated a good fit with a Rasch model of the items. Study 2 affirmed the internal consistency of the CCWS items and indicated that peoples’ responses to the measure were temporally stable over a two-week test–retest interval (r = 0.91). Study 3 provided support for the convergent and divergent validity of the CCWS through its pattern of correlations with several established clinical and weather-related measures. The limitations of the studies and the possible uses of the CCWS were discussed. The current work represents a starting point.

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Stewart, Alan E. "Psychometric Properties of the Climate Change Worry Scale." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 2 (January 9, 2021): 494. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18020494.

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Climate change worry involves primarily verbal-linguistic thoughts about the changes that may occur in the climate system and the possible effects of these changes. Such worry is one of several possible psychological responses (e.g., fear, anxiety, depression, and trauma) to climate change. Within this article, the psychometric development of the ten-item Climate Change Worry Scale (CCWS) is detailed in three studies. The scale was developed to assess proximal worry about climate change rather than social or global impacts. Study 1 provided evidence that the CCWS items were internally consistent, constituted a single factor, and that the facture structure of the items was invariant for men and women. The results from Study 1 also indicated a good fit with a Rasch model of the items. Study 2 affirmed the internal consistency of the CCWS items and indicated that peoples’ responses to the measure were temporally stable over a two-week test–retest interval (r = 0.91). Study 3 provided support for the convergent and divergent validity of the CCWS through its pattern of correlations with several established clinical and weather-related measures. The limitations of the studies and the possible uses of the CCWS were discussed. The current work represents a starting point.

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Ingrell, Joakim, Urban Johnson, and Andreas Ivarsson. "Relationships between ego-oriented peer climate, perceived competence and worry about sport performance: A longitudinal study of student-athletes." Sport Science Review 25, no. 3-4 (September 1, 2016): 225–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ssr-2016-0012.

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Abstract Using a sample of student-athletes’ (N=64) first year (seventh grade) enrolled at a school with a sport profile, the aim of this longitudinal study was to investigate (a) levels and changes as regards to worry about sport performance, perception of peer climate, and perceived competence; and (b) the relationship in levels and changes between these studied variables. The primary results from latent growth models (LGMs) and parallel process LGMs revealed that, during their first year, the student-athletes’ level of worry and perceived ego-oriented peer climate increased, whereas perceived competence decreased. Further, the results showed that perceived competence was negatively associated with worry at the beginning of the students’ first year. The slope of perceived ego-oriented peer climate was positively associated with the slope of worry. Future research in relation to the findings is discussed, and recommendations for future actions are given.

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Sisodiya, Sanjay M., Ingrid E. Scheffer, Daniel H. Lowenstein, and Samantha L. Free. "Why should a neurologist worry about climate change?" Lancet Neurology 18, no. 4 (April 2019): 335–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1474-4422(19)30081-x.

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Tol, Richard S. J. "Why Worry About Climate Change? A Research Agenda." Environmental Values 17, no. 4 (November 1, 2008): 437–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/096327108x368485.

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Oslakovic, Irina Stipanovic, Herbert ter Maat, Andreas Hartmann, and Geert Dewulf. "Climate Change and Infrastructure Performance: Should We Worry About?" Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 48 (2012): 1775–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.06.1152.

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Tuvel, Rebecca. "Sourcing Women's Ecological Knowledge: The Worry of Epistemic Objectification." Hypatia 30, no. 2 (2015): 319–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12141.

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In this paper, I argue that although it is important to attend to injustices surrounding women's epistemic exclusions, it is equally important to attend to injustices surrounding women's epistemic inclusions. Partly in response to the historical exclusion of women's knowledge, there has been increasing effort among first‐world actors to seek out women's knowledge. This trend is apparent in efforts to mainstream gender in climate change negotiation. Here, one is told that women's superior knowledge about how to adapt to climate change makes them “poised to help solve and overcome this daunting challenge.” Pulling from the work of Miranda Fricker, I argue that such claims risk epistemically objectifying women. To illuminate the risk of women's epistemic objectification in climate change discourse, I offer a feminist analysis of current efforts to seek women's environmental knowledge, cautioning throughout that such efforts must reflect just epistemic relations.

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Verosub, Kenneth L. "Don't worry about climate change; California's natural climate variability will probably “get us” first." Quaternary International 387 (November 2015): 148. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.01.183.

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Walling, Mary D., Joan L. Duda, and Likang Chi. "The Perceived Motivational Climate in Sport Questionnaire: Construct and Predictive Validity." Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology 15, no. 2 (June 1993): 172–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jsep.15.2.172.

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The purpose of this study was to further examine the construct and predictive validity of the Perceived Motivational Climate in Sport Questionnaire or PMCSQ. Young athletes (N = 169, M age = 14.2 ± 1.94 years) on teams competing in an amateur international competition completed questionnaires measuring perceived motivational climate, the degree of worry experienced while participating, and team satisfaction. Results of a confirmatory factor analysis indicated an acceptable fit of the data with the hypothetical measurement model. In terms of the predictive utility of the PMCSQ, perceptions of a mastery climate were positively related to satisfaction with being a member on the team and negatively associated with performance worry. In contrast, perceptions of a performance climate were positively associated with concerns about failing and the adequacy of one's performance and negatively correlated with team satisfaction. Future directions in terms of instrument development and research on motivational climate in the sport setting are presented.

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Cooper, Richard N., and Thomas Gale Moore. "Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn't Worry about Global Warming." Foreign Affairs 77, no. 5 (1998): 148. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20049067.

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Gimenez Papiol, Gemma. "Climate conditions, and changes, affect microalgae communities… should we worry?" Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 14, no. 2 (February 15, 2018): 181–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ieam.2009.

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Dow, Kirstin, Robert E. O’Connor, Brent Yarnal, Gregory J. Carbone, and Christine L. Jocoy. "Why worry? Community water system managers’ perceptions of climate vulnerability." Global Environmental Change 17, no. 2 (May 2007): 228–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2006.08.003.

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Evensen, Darrick, Lorraine Whitmarsh, Phil Bartie, Patrick Devine-Wright, Jennifer Dickie, Adam Varley, Stacia Ryder, and Adam Mayer. "Effect of “finite pool of worry” and COVID-19 on UK climate change perceptions." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 3 (January 4, 2021): e2018936118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2018936118.

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Research reveals that a “finite pool of worry” constrains concern about and action on climate change. Nevertheless, a longitudinal panel survey of 1,858 UK residents, surveyed in April 2019 and June 2020, reveals little evidence for diminishing climate change concern during the COVID-19 pandemic. Further, the sample identifies climate change as a bigger threat than COVID-19. The findings suggest climate change has become an intransigent concern within UK public consciousness.

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du Bray, Margaret V., Amber Wutich, and Alexandra Brewis. "Hope and Worry: Gendered Emotional Geographies of Climate Change in Three Vulnerable U.S. Communities." Weather, Climate, and Society 9, no. 2 (March 21, 2017): 285–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/wcas-d-16-0077.1.

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Abstract Climate scientists have proposed that many people have not yet felt the results of climate change. This explains, at least in part, why some people are so unmotivated to make changes to mitigate climate change. Yet, a range of studies focused on other types of weather-related anticipated and experienced disasters, such as drought, clearly demonstrate that climate-related phenomena can elicit strong emotional reactions. Using a combination of open-ended interview questions and close-ended survey questions, the authors conducted semistructured interviews in three biophysically vulnerable communities (Mobile, Alabama; Kodiak, Alaska; and Phoenix, Arizona). The relatively high number of respondents who expressed sadness and worry at the possible outcomes of climate change indicates emotional awareness, even among climate change skeptics. The patterns were significantly gendered, with men across the three sites less likely to indicate hope. Results suggest that emotional aspects of climate change might provide an entry point for rallying vulnerable U.S. communities to consider mitigation efforts.

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Nanni, Paola, David J. Peres, Rosaria E. Musumeci, and Antonino Cancelliere. "Worry about Climate Change and Urban Flooding Risk Preparedness in Southern Italy: A Survey in the Simeto River Valley (Sicily, Italy)." Resources 10, no. 3 (March 14, 2021): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/resources10030025.

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Intensive urbanization and related increase of impervious surfaces, causes negative impacts on the hydrological cycle, amplifying the risk of urban floods. These impacts can get even worse due to potential climate change impacts. The urban areas of the Simeto River Valley (SRV), the largest river valley in Sicily (Italy), have been repeatedly hit by intense rainfall events in the last decades that lead to urban flooding, causing several damages and, in some instances, threats to population. In this paper, we present the results of a 10-question survey on climate change and risk perception in 11 municipalities of the SRV carried out within the activities of the LIFE project SimetoRES, which allowed to collect 1143 feedbacks from the residents. The survey investigated: (a) the level of worry about climate change in relation to extreme storms, (b) elements of urban flooding risk preparedness: the direct experience of the residents during heavy rain events, their trust in a civil protection regional alert system, and their knowledge of the correct behavior in case of flood, and (c) the willingness of citizens to implement sustainable drainage actions for climate change adaptation in their own municipality and real estates. The results show that more than 52% of citizens has inadequate knowledge of the correct behavior during flooding events and only 30% of them feel responsible for mitigation of flooding risk. There is a modest willingness by the population to support the construction of sustainable urban drainage infrastructures. A statistical cross-analysis of the answers to the different questions, based on contingency matrices and conditional frequencies, has shown that a greater worry about climate change has no significant impact either on the behavior of people in dangerous situations occurring during flooding events or on the willingness to support financially sustainable solutions. These results suggest that to build a higher worry about climate change and related urban flooding risk is not sufficient to have better preparedness, and that more direct educative actions are necessary in the area.

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Cuomo, Chris J. "Climate Change, Vulnerability, and Responsibility." Hypatia 26, no. 4 (2011): 690–714. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01220.x.

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In this essay I present an overview of the problem of climate change, with attention to issues of interest to feminists, such as the differential responsibilities of nations and the disproportionate “vulnerabilities” of females, people of color, and the economically disadvantaged in relation to climate change. I agree with others that justice requires governments, corporations, and individuals to take full responsibility for histories of pollution, and for present and future greenhouse gas emissions. Nonetheless I worry that an overemphasis on household and personal‐sphere fossil fuel emissions distracts from attention to higher‐level corporate and governmental responsibilities for addressing the problem of climate change. I argue that more attention should be placed on the higher‐level responsibilities of corporations and governments, and I discuss how individuals might more effectively take responsibility for addressing global climate change, especially when corporations and governments refuse to do so.

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Oegema, Gerbern S. "Climate Change as Apocalypse." Journal of the Council for Research on Religion 2, no. 1 (December 30, 2020): 59–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.26443/jcreor.v2i1.38.

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The last couple of decades have revealed numerous consequences related to pollution and the impact of climate change. Natural disasters seem to have become part of our daily landscape; less than two years ago the whole continent of Australia was consumed by devastating forest fires, the Western part of the United States also experienced one of its worst wildfires in almost a century, while the ice cap in the North pole is melting and the permafrost of the Canadian and Russian tundra is disappearing. How can we deny the impacts of climate change as all of these catastrophes are unfolding before our very eyes? This conscious awareness of our planet’s rapid deterioration has generated a number of movies and fictional novels about the coming apocalypse, dystopian society and the end of the world. Demonstrating that there is a growing sentiment of worry and anxiety for the future of the planet and of humankind. In this article I propose to examine the anxieties surrounding the impact of climate change and its potential connection the apocalyptic literature.

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Hoenes del Pinal, Eric. "Reading Laudato Si’ in the Verapaz." Exchange 48, no. 3 (July 19, 2019): 291–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1572543x-12341532.

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Abstract As global climate change is becoming an increasing worry, Q’eqchi’-Maya Catholics in Guatemala have begun drawing Pope Francis encyclical Laudato Si’ into their discourse about the environment. This article examines how Catholic teachings and Maya culture come together to shape Q’eqchi’-Mayas’ views on climate change, and argues that these processes offer anthropologists of Catholicism insight into how we might better understand Catholicism as a religion that is at once local and global.

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Loscalzo, Yura. "Studyholism and Study Engagement: What about the Role of Perfectionism, Worry, Overstudy Climate, and Type of School in Adolescence?" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 3 (January 21, 2021): 910. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18030910.

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This study aims to deepen the analysis of Studyholism (or obsession toward study) on a sample of 793 Italian adolescents (Mage = 16.30 ± 1.73; 53% boys). A path analysis model including potential antecedents (i.e., worry, study-related perfectionism, perfectionistic strivings and concerns, overstudy climate, type of school) and outcomes (e.g., grade point average, time spent studying, psychological well-being) of Studyholism was tested. In line with previous findings on college students, this study supported the conceptualization of problematic overstudying as an OCD-related disorder, since worry is the strongest predictor of Studyholism. Moreover, among the main findings, it confirmed that Studyholism is associated with negative academic outcomes, while Study Engagement predicts positive academic outcomes. Finally, it also confirmed that both Studyholism and Study Engagement predict social impairment. In conclusion, preventive interventions to favor students’ academic success and well-being should reduce perfectionistic concerns and study-related perfectionism and enhance time management skills (in Engaged students too). For reducing Studyholism, instead, the primary target should be trait worry. Finally, preventive interventions should be implemented across all the school types and possibly during childhood or pre-adolescence to avoid the increase in psychological and social impairment that has been found to be associated with Studyholism in youths. It is also essential to detect potential early risk indicators (especially among individual factors) of Studyholism in childhood.

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White, Sally A. "Adolescent Goal Profiles, Perceptions of the Parent-Initiated Motivational Climate, and Competitive Trait Anxiety." Sport Psychologist 12, no. 1 (March 1998): 16–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/tsp.12.1.16.

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The purpose of this study was to examine the combined effects of task- and ego-orientation on adolescents’ perceptions of the parent-initiated motivational climate and competitive trait anxiety. Participants were 279 male and female adolescents (mean age = 14.41 years) who competed on organized sport teams. Based on a mean split on the two TEOSQ subscales, four goal orientation profile groups were created: high-task/high-ego, high-task/low-ego, high-ego/low-task, and low-task/low-ego. MANOVA results indicated that the high-task/low-ego group perceived that both their mother and father endorsed a learning and enjoyment motivational climate. In contrast, the high-ego/low-task group thought their mother and father valued a climate where success was coupled with low effort. In this group, fathers were perceived to cause worry about making mistakes. This group experienced the highest levels of competitive trait anxiety. For the high-task/high-ego group it was found that fathers emphasized a climate where success was linked to low levels of exerted effort and mothers were perceived to cause worry about making mistakes. However, the high-task/high-ego group also believed that both parents still valued learning and enjoyment in the development of physical skills. Lastly, individuals in the low-task/low-ego group perceived mothers to make them afraid of making mistakes in the learning of skills.

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Haltinner, Kristin, Jennifer Ladino, and Dilshani Sarathchandra. "Feeling skeptical: Worry, dread, and support for environmental policy among climate change skeptics." Emotion, Space and Society 39 (May 2021): 100790. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2021.100790.

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Orr, Margaret, Alan Stewart, and Andrew Grundstein. "Investigating Connections between Need for Cognitive Closure and Climate Change Concern in College Students." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 15 (August 4, 2020): 5619. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17155619.

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Understanding how people’s worldviews and individual personality differences affect their thinking about anthropogenic climate change is critical to communication efforts regarding this issue. This study surveyed University of Georgia students to investigate the role that need for cognitive closure plays in level of climate change worry. The relationship between these two was found to involve suppression—a subset of mediation—by the social dimension of political conservatism. Political conservatism was also found to play a mediating role in the relationship between need for cognitive closure and support for governmental and personal climate solutions. However, social conservatism played this mediator role in women, and functioned as a suppressor for men. These findings help inform audience segmentation and creation of climate-related messages based on audience worldview and personality.

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Lo Re, Stefano, and Luca Lo Re. "A Methodological Point and A Substantial Worry on Sayegh’s ‘Pricing Carbon for Climate Justice’." Ethics, Policy & Environment 22, no. 2 (May 4, 2019): 135–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2019.1625536.

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Ameres, Lea Christina, Prisca Brosi, and Tanja Erlmaier. "Don’t Worry about Your Ability: Error Management Climate as Stress-Buffer for Cognitive Demands." Academy of Management Proceedings 2021, no. 1 (August 2021): 11758. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2021.11758abstract.

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Takyi Appiah, Sampson, Albert Buabeng, and N. K. Dumakor-Dupey. "Multivariate Analysis of the Effect of Climate Conditions on Gold Production in Ghana." Ghana Mining Journal 18, no. 1 (June 28, 2018): 72–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gm.v18i1.9.

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The change in climatic conditions and its catastrophic effect on mining activities has become a source of worry for mining industries and therefore needs due attention. This study examined the effect some climate factors have on gold production in Ghana. First, a direct Multiple Linear Regression was applied on the climate factors with the aim of determining the relative effect of each factor on gold production which exhibited a time series structure. The consequence is that, the estimates of the coefficients and their standard errors will be wrongly estimated if the time series structure of the errors is ignored. In order to eliminate these deficiencies and better understand the effect of these climate factors on gold production, regression with ARIMA errors technique was employed after its appropriateness has been tested. The model was then compared in terms of prediction accuracy which resulted a MAPE of 9.78%. It was concluded that, gold production in Ghana is positively related to Temperature whilst negatively to Rainfall and Precipitate. It was recommended that mine operators in Ghana could base on this analysis to optimise their production planning and scheduling. Keywords: Gold Production, Climate, Multicollinearity, VIF, Regression Models with ARIMA Errors

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DRAGOMIR, Robert Gabriel, and Lucian Octavian DRAGOMIR. "CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS INTERACTION WITH NATURAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PROCESSES." Annals of Spiru Haret University. Economic Series 19, no. 2 (June 28, 2019): 125–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.26458/1926.

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Human-made GHGs work against us when they trap too much sunlight and block outward radiation. Scientists worry that the accumulation of these gases in the atmosphere has changed and will continue to change the climate. Potential climate risks include more severe weather patterns; hobbled ecosystems, with less biodiversity; changes in patterns of drought and flood, with less potable water; inundation of coastal areas from rising sea levels; and a greater spread of infectious diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, and cholera. On the plus side, climate change might benefit agriculture and forestry in certain locations by increasing productivity as a result of longer growing seasons and increased fertilization. Although climate change is not the same as day-to-day or even year-to-year fluctuations in the weather, the nature of these fluctuations could be altered by climate change.

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Brügger, Adrian, Moritz Gubler, Katharine Steentjes, and Stuart B. Capstick. "Social Identity and Risk Perception Explain Participation in the Swiss Youth Climate Strikes." Sustainability 12, no. 24 (December 18, 2020): 10605. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su122410605.

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Since late 2018, young people around the world have united to demand greater action on climate change. Aside from their stated concerns and demands, however, very little is known about why young people have been joining this growing movement. Using a large sample (N = 4057) of people in Switzerland aged between 14 and 25, we show that social identity is most strongly associated with participation, followed by beliefs about the effectiveness of youth strikes, level of education, and worry about climate change. Our findings affirm the relevance of both climate change risk perceptions and social identity-related processes for collective climate change action, and pave the way for promising opportunities in theory development and integration. The study also provides lessons for those who seek to maintain and increase collective action on climate change: concern about climate change is an important motivating factor, but social identity processes are at least as relevant for young people’s participation.

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Goldberg, Matthew H., Sander van der Linden, Edward Maibach, and Anthony Leiserowitz. "Discussing global warming leads to greater acceptance of climate science." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 30 (July 8, 2019): 14804–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1906589116.

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Climate change is an urgent global issue, with demands for personal, collective, and governmental action. Although a large body of research has investigated the influence of communication on public engagement with climate change, few studies have investigated the role of interpersonal discussion. Here we use panel data with 2 time points to investigate the role of climate conversations in shaping beliefs and feelings about global warming. We find evidence of reciprocal causality. That is, discussing global warming with friends and family leads people to learn influential facts, such as the scientific consensus that human-caused global warming is happening. In turn, stronger perceptions of scientific agreement increase beliefs that climate change is happening and human-caused, as well as worry about climate change. When assessing the reverse causal direction, we find that knowing the scientific consensus further leads to increases in global warming discussion. These findings suggest that climate conversations with friends and family enter people into a proclimate social feedback loop.

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Kolayiş, Hakan, and Nurullah Çelik. "Parent-initiated motivational climate and selfdetermined motivation in youth sport." Kinesiology 49, no. 2 (2017): 217–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.26582/k.49.2.4.

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There are many determinants of sports motivation such as athletes’ personal characteristics, coaches, peers, parents and the other environmental factors. In this research, the aim was to analyse whether there was a relationship between perceived parent-initiated motivational climate and self-determined motivation of karate athletes. Karate athletes (N=325) participated in the research and completed the adolescent version of the Sport Motivation Scale and Parent-Initiated Motivational Climate Questionnaire. Multiple regression analyses showed that the athletes’ self-determined motivation significantly correlated with learning and enjoyment climate, worry-conducive climate and success-without-effort climate perceived both in father and mother. Besides, regression analysis showed that perceived family climate significantly contributed to selfdetermined motivation. Linear combination of father learning and enjoyment climate (β=.21), father successwithout effort climate (β=-.17), and mother success-without-effort climate (β=-.14) significantly contributed to self-determined motivation (F(3,321)=18.88, R2=.15, p<.001). In conclusion, the results indicated that athletes’ perception of parent-initiated motivational climate was important for their self-determined motivation. The findings were evaluated and some implications for parents were proposed.

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N’Zué, Felix Fofana. "Does Climate Change Have Real Negative Impact on Economic Growth in Poor Countries? Evidence from Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)." Management and Economics Research Journal 4, no. 2 (2018): 204. http://dx.doi.org/10.18639/merj.2018.04.670069.

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The objective of this paper is to determine the impact of climate change on Cote d’Ivoire’s economic performance via per capita gross domestic product (GDP) growth, change in agricultural value added, and change in the country’s cereal yield. The data ranged from 1960 to 2016. An autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model is used to investigate the long run dynamics between climate variables (precipitation and temperature) and the country’s per capita GDP, agricultural value added as % of GDP, and cereal yield. We found that climate change has not significantly impacted the economic performance of the country. However, precipitation has been found to have positively and significantly influenced the country’s cereal yield and agricultural value added contribution to GDP at large, and thus there is no need to worry more than it is necessary.

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Sloterdijk, Peter. "Society of Centaurs." Transfers 1, no. 1 (March 1, 2011): 14–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/trans.2011.010102.

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It is characteristic for philosophical speech to keep its distance from problem-solving thinking. It seems to be important, in the modern day climate of worry that surrounds discussions about transport and society, to keep this in mind—the possibility of an unrestrained and indeed celebratory mode of thought, one that today goes under the name “philosophy.” Thought can only be unrestrained if it can shake off the agitation caused by current concerns, becoming then, in a literal sense, luxurious.

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Goldberg, Matthew H., Sander van der Linden, Matthew T. Ballew, Seth A. Rosenthal, Abel Gustafson, and Anthony Leiserowitz. "The Experience of Consensus: Video as an Effective Medium to Communicate Scientific Agreement on Climate Change." Science Communication 41, no. 5 (September 10, 2019): 659–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1075547019874361.

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Research on the gateway belief model indicates that communicating the scientific consensus on global warming acts as a “gateway” to other beliefs and support for action. We test whether a video conveying the scientific consensus on global warming is more effective than a text transcript with the same information. Results show that the video was significantly more effective than the transcript in increasing people’s perception of scientific agreement. Structural equation models indicate indirect increases in the beliefs that global warming is happening and is human-caused, and in worry about global warming, which in turn predict increased global warming issue priority.

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Maran, Daniela Acquadro, and Tatiana Begotti. "Media Exposure to Climate Change, Anxiety, and Efficacy Beliefs in a Sample of Italian University Students." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 17 (September 4, 2021): 9358. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18179358.

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The climate crisis poses a serious threat to the health and well-being of individuals. For many, climate change knowledge is derived from indirect exposure to information transmitted through the media. Such content can elicit a variety of emotional responses, including anger, sadness, despair, fear, and guilt. Worry and anxiety are especially common responses, usually referred to as “climate anxiety”. The main objectives of this study were to analyze how exposure to climate change through the media relates to climate anxiety and individual and collective self-efficacy, and to evaluate the relationship between climate anxiety and efficacy beliefs. A total of 312 Italian university students (aged 18–26 years) participated in the research by filling out an anonymous questionnaire. Participants reported being exposed several times per week to information about climate change, especially from social media, newspapers, and television programs. Moreover, the results showed that the attention paid to information about climate change was not only positively related to climate anxiety, but also to individual and collective self-efficacy. Most notably, participants’ efficacy beliefs were found to be positively related to climate anxiety. This somewhat controversial finding stresses that, in the context of pro-environmental behavior changes, a moderate level of anxiety could engender feelings of virtue, encouraging people to rethink actions with negative ecological impacts.

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Gislason, Maya K., Angel M. Kennedy, and Stephanie M. Witham. "The Interplay between Social and Ecological Determinants of Mental Health for Children and Youth in the Climate Crisis." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 9 (April 26, 2021): 4573. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094573.

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Children and youth are showing increasing levels of mental health distress due to the climate crisis, characterized by feelings of sadness, guilt, changes in sleep and appetite, difficulty concentrating, solastalgia, and disconnection from land. To gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between climate change and children and youth’s mental health, we conducted a rapid review and a thematic analysis of the results in NVivo 12. Our findings show that children and youth experience a plethora of direct and indirect effects from climate change and this impacts their mental wellbeing in diverse and complex ways. Young people also have varied perceptions of climate change based on their social locations and many are dealing with feelings of immense worry and eco-anxiety. The mental health impacts of climate change on children/youth are tied to Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) but also need to be understood in relation to the Ecological Determinants of Health (EDoH). Through an eco-social lens, this paper explores these conceptual issues and uses them to provide a framework for understanding the interplay of social and ecological determinants of mental health for children/youth.

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Hodson, Martin J. "Losing Hope? The Environmental Crisis Today." ANVIL 29, no. 1 (September 1, 2013): 7–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/anv-2013-0002.

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Abstract Environmentalists and scientists who study the environment often give a pretty bleak picture of the future. Surveys of secular views on the environment suggest that the general public in the developed West are concerned about the state of the environment. After considering all of the environmental problems that are causing scientists to worry, this paper then concentrates on four: climate change; biodiversity loss; global water supply; and the increase in our human population. Finally we will see what scientists have to say about hope in a time of environmental crisis

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Sundblad, E. L., A. Biel, and T. Gärling. "Intention to change activities that reduce carbon dioxide emissions related to worry about global climate change consequences." European Review of Applied Psychology 64, no. 1 (January 2014): 13–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erap.2011.12.001.

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Kaina, Viktoria. "Declining Trust in Elites and Why We Should Worry About It – With Empirical Evidence from Germany." Government and Opposition 43, no. 3 (2008): 405–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.2008.00260.x.

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‘WITHOUT TRUST WE WILL NOT SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS,’ WARNED Johannes Rau, the former German Federal president in his last ‘Berlin speech’ in May 2004. As one reason for an alarming loss of trust in Germany, creating a serious obstacle to necessary changes, he identified an irresponsible, egoistic and greedy behaviour among parts of German elites. Actually, Johannes Rau did not blame only political elites but also elite members in other sectors such as business, trade unions or mass media. His statement implies that parts of German elites are causing a decline in trust in Germany by losing touch with the people. Likewise, various observers in the public discourse argue that the immoral, cynical and increasingly incompetent behaviour of several elite members especially fosters a crisis of trust in Germany by creating a diffuse climate of distrust, pessimism, uncertainty and Zukunftsangst.

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Zander, Kerstin K., Simon Moss, and Stephen T. Garnett. "Climate Change–Related Heat Stress and Subjective Well-Being in Australia." Weather, Climate, and Society 11, no. 3 (May 21, 2019): 505–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/wcas-d-18-0074.1.

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Abstract There is mounting evidence that climate change impacts compromise people’s well-being. Many regions of Australia have experienced record hot temperatures and more frequent and longer heat waves with substantial consequences for people, economies, and ecosystems. Using data from an Australia-wide online survey with 1101 respondents, we investigated the relationship between self-reported measures of heat stress and different dimensions of subjective well-being. After controlling for socioeconomic factors known to affect well-being, we found that heat stress was linked to people’s certainty about and planning for their future but not to their life satisfaction, happiness, social state, capabilities, or purpose in life. This result indicates that, while heat is not associated with present well-being, many people worry about the effect that increased heat will have on their future well-being. People who were uncertain about their future were also more likely than those who did not feel uncertain to think that heat compromised their productivity. People who agreed that they were competent and capable in their activities rated their heat stress–related productivity loss lower than those who disagreed. The findings are relevant for future studies using life-satisfaction approaches to assess consequences of climate change impacts and to studies in “happiness economics.” We recommend that future research on the impact of climate change on well-being go beyond simply life satisfaction and happiness and test multiple dimensions of well-being.

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Panu, Pihkala. "Anxiety and the Ecological Crisis: An Analysis of Eco-Anxiety and Climate Anxiety." Sustainability 12, no. 19 (September 23, 2020): 7836. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12197836.

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Eco-anxiety and climate anxiety are widely discussed in contemporary media and are subjects of growing research interest. However, there is a lack of research about the definitions and variations of these phenomena. This article analyzes various views of eco-anxiety from a wide range of disciplines. Insights from various anxiety theories are used to discuss empirical studies about forms of eco-anxiety. The article points out that uncertainty, unpredictability, and uncontrollability seem to be important factors in eco-anxiety. Most forms of eco-anxiety appear to be non-clinical, but cases of “pathological” eco-anxiety are also discussed. Other relevant terms and phenomena are scrutinized, such as ecological grief, solastalgia, and ecological trauma. The relationship between studies on eco-anxiety and research about ecological emotions and affect is probed. Eco-anxiety is found to be closely connected to fear and worry, but several disciplines include discussion of its character as existential anxiety. Psychosocial and sociological perspectives point out that social dynamics shape forms of eco-anxiety in profound ways. While paralyzing forms of eco-anxiety emerge as a problem, it is noted that eco-anxiety manifests itself also as “practical anxiety”, which leads to gathering of new information and reassessment of behavior options. This variety of forms of eco-anxiety should be taken into account in healthcare and public discussion.

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Hong, Seong Choul. "Presumed Effects of “Fake News” on the Global Warming Discussion in a Cross-Cultural Context." Sustainability 12, no. 5 (March 9, 2020): 2123. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12052123.

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“Fake news” on global warming is widely disseminated via social and partisan media. Scientists worry about its effect, because fake news may hurt public support and change policy on climate change. The current study tested the roles of cultural constructs (individualism, collectivism, and uncertainty-avoidance) in predicting the presumed effect of fake news on global warming. Based on 770 answers in four countries, the study found that individualism and collectivism influenced the presumed media effect on others and the third-person effect (self-other disparity of media effect). Moreover, the presumed media effect contributed to both preventive actions such as support for regulation on fake news and corrective actions such as a willingness to donate money. Likewise, the study found that collectivism positively predicted a willingness to donate money, while uncertainty-avoidance predicted support for regulation.

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Druckman, James N., and Richard M. Shafranek. "The Conditional Nature of the Local Warming Effect." Weather, Climate, and Society 9, no. 1 (December 9, 2016): 15–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/wcas-d-16-0012.1.

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Abstract The local warming effect occurs when perceived deviations in the day’s temperature affect individuals’ global warming beliefs. When people perceive the day to be warmer than usual, they tend to overestimate the number of warm days throughout the year, and to report increased belief in and worry about global warming. For many, this is normatively concerning because a single day’s perceived temperature fluctuation is not representative of longer-term, large-scale climate patterns. It thus makes for a poor basis for global warming judgments. Recent work shows that the local warming effect might disappear when people receive a reminder to think about weather patterns over the past year (i.e., a correction). This paper employs a survey experiment that extends past research by exploring the generalizability, conditionality, and durability of the corrective information. It identifies the conditions under which a local warming effect is more or less likely to occur.

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Höijer, Birgitta, and Joel Rasmussen. "Making Sense of Violent Events in Public Spaces." Nordicom Review 28, no. 1 (May 1, 2007): 3–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0197.

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Abstract Violence in public spaces gives headlines in the media and is an issue of great concern for the public. It is threatening both on the societal and private level and shakes our belief in the rational and secure social world that was formulated by modernity and the welfare state. The article takes it point of departure in unforeseeable violent events in public spaces that in the media are labelled acts of madness and in which the perpetrators are pointed out as suffering from mental disorders. Results are presented from a study of how citizens attach social and cultural meanings to such events and it is shown how the meanings can be understood in relation to transformations in the emotional-cognitive climate of contemporary society. A culturally conditioned fear and worry, dilemmas and processes of individualization are discussed as crucial dimensions in institutional and public thinking about society and everyday life.

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Mendez López, Mariza. "The motivational properties of emotions in Foreign Language Learning*." Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal 13, no. 2 (October 21, 2011): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.14483/22487085.3764.

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Although the process of learning a foreign language is replete with emotions, these have not been sufficiently studied in the field of EnglishLanguage Teaching. The aim of this article is to report the motivational impact of the emotions experienced by second year students of anEnglish Language Teaching programme in a South East Mexican University. Students were asked to keep an emotional journal for twelve weeksduring their third term in order to map their emotions and their sources during instructed language learning. The results show that the emotionsexperienced most by students are: fear, happiness, worry, calm, sadness and excitement. Although there is a range of sources for emotionalreactions, the five main sources of students’ emotions are: their insecurity about their speaking ability, the teachers’ attitudes, comparisonswith peers, the classroom atmosphere, and the type of learning activities.The two main aspects identified as impacting on students’ motivationare: the teachers’ attitudes, and the classroom climate.

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Caney, Simon, and Cameron Hepburn. "Carbon Trading: Unethical, Unjust and Ineffective?" Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 69 (September 22, 2011): 201–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1358246111000282.

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Cap-and-trade systems for greenhouse gas emissions are an important part of the climate change policies of the EU, Japan, New Zealand, among others, as well as China (soon) and Australia (potentially). However, concerns have been raised on a variety of ethical grounds about the use of markets to reduce emissions. For example, some people worry that emissions trading allows the wealthy to evade their responsibilities. Others are concerned that it puts a price on the natural environment. Concerns have also been raised about the distributional justice of emissions trading. Finally, some commentators have questioned the actual effectiveness of emissions trading in reducing emissions. This paper considers these three categories of objections – ethics, justice and effectiveness – through the lens of moral philosophy and economics. It is concluded that only the objections based on distributional justice can be sustained. This points to reform of the carbon market system, rather than its elimination.

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Quandt, Sara A., Natalie J. LaMonto, Dana C. Mora, Jennifer W. Talton, Paul J. Laurienti, and Thomas A. Arcury. "COVID-19 Pandemic Among Immigrant Latinx Farmworker and Non-farmworker Families: A Rural–Urban Comparison of Economic, Educational, Healthcare, and Immigration Concerns." NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy 31, no. 1 (February 8, 2021): 30–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1048291121992468.

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COVID-19 has revealed social and health inequities in the United States. Structural inequalities have increased the likelihood of immigrants contracting COVID-19, by being essential workers and through poverty that forces this population to continue working. Rural and urban immigrant families may face different concerns. Using a telephone survey in May 2020 of 105 Latinx families in an existing study, quantitative and qualitative data were gathered on work and household economics, childcare and education, healthcare, and community climate. Analyses show that, although rural and urban groups experienced substantial economic effects, impacts were more acute for urban families. Rural workers reported fewer workplace protective measures for COVID-19. For both groups, fear and worry, particularly about finances and children, dominated reports of their situations with numerous reports of experiencing stress and anxiety. The experience of the pandemic is interpreted as an example of contextual vulnerability of a population already experiencing structural violence through social injustice. Policy implications are highlighted.

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L. Sholehuddin. "Ekologi dan Kerusakan Lingkungan dalam Persepektif Al-Qur’an." Jurnal Al-Fanar 4, no. 2 (August 31, 2021): 113–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.33511/alfanar.v4n2.113-134.

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Ecosystem is an overall unified arrangement of elements of the environment that influence each other in creating balance, order and sustainability. The discourse on environmental conservation has become an actual issue in the midst of the threat of a global crisis as a consequence of disasters, climate change, global warming, erratic seasonal changes, decreased quality of life and the threat of destruction of the earth. This condition triggers the anxiety and worry of mankind about the extinction of the earth. This study will answer how the Koran talks about the environment and its impact on human life. The design of this research is a qualitative type of literature. The data collection technique is the documentation of collecting environmental damage verses. The analysis uses a comparative interpretive, namely examining verses on environmental damage, comparing them, then concluding them through inductive thinking. The results of the study prove that environmental damage is caused by polytheists, hypocrites, greedy and selfish people. Solutions for strengthening monotheism, awareness of environmental law, and moral natural resource management.

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