For Further Study: Environmental Grief Sources and References
An extensive list of resources for further study on environmental grief, including both western approaches and other cultural frameworks: research, therapy approaches, Indigenous concepts and knowledge, and more.
Expanding Our Understanding: Alternative Frameworks for Environmental Grief
Western psychology is beginning to recognize environmental grief as a legitimate response to ecological destruction, but other cultural frameworks have long understood the deep emotional connections between humans and the natural world.
Understanding Environmental Loss as Disenfranchised Grief
The psychological impact of environmental grief is very real: anticipatory grief for future losses, feelings of helplessness and overwhelm, existential anxiety about the future of our planet, and painful disconnection from others who "don't get it." But environmental grief demonstrates psychological health, not pathology.