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.
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Table of Contents
1. 5G-RF emission from wearable devices: Risk to human health and mitigationDevasis Pradhan, Sonali Kadam and Nitin S. Goje
2. Mindfulness in the context of climate change: Roadmap for sustainability!
Sunita Dwivedi and Shinu Vig
3. Confronting the nexus of climate change: Mental health, food security, and social stability
Sheetal Kumari and Manoj Chandra Garg
4. Climate crisis chronicles: Navigating eco anxiety and climate related distress
Madhavi Sripathi and T.S. Leelavati
5. Climate change and mental health risks: A qualitative approach
U. Vijayabanu, V.D. Swaminathan and Kalpitha
6. Impact of climate adaption and resilience on mental and social wellbeing
Kiran Vazirani, Rameesha Kalra and Sunanda Vincent Jaiwant
7. Climate, agriculture, and farmer’s mental health: Unravelling the nexus in Wayanad,
Kerala Rahul R. Menon and Manjusha G. Warrier
8. The psychosocial correlates of alterations in climate among children
Alka Ranjan
9. A qualitative study on eco-anxiety, climatic change distress, climate resilience, and intentional activities among vulnerable adults
Anantharaman Seethalakshmy, P. Kaviya, Akhiya Shaji and A.B. Alaguharani
10. Green space and mental well-being research in India: An urgent need for intervention
Bidisha Banerjee, Sandhya Basu and Lokesh Kumar
11. Impact of climate change and environmental degra- dation on agriculture and the quality life of farmers: A comprehensive analysis
H. Saranya and Mahalaxmi Shivshankar Tiwari
12. Perseverance matters: Adult risk attitude toward health and psychological well-being
R. Maya, V.J. Anjana and B. Nanthini
13. Understanding public perceptions, attitudes, and awareness of air pollution and its effects on health
Renju Chandran, Bindusree A.R. and M.C. Sarath Chandran
14. Impact of environmental identity and eco-anxiety on mental health among two generation people (Gen X and Z)
SHA Showmiya and G. Sajeeth Kumar
15. The impact of climate based natural disasters on children’s mental health and wellbeing: A systematic review
D. Simona and K.S. Amritha
16. The mental health climate crisis: Unveiling the hidden consequences of global warming
Sunita Kumar, F.C.M.A. Nabanita Ghosh and Shivi Khanna
17. Unraveling the psychological toll: Understanding eco-anxiety as a consequence of climate change
Harshita Mishra and Gabriela Michael
18. Yellow leaf disease, climate change, and its impact on the life of farmers in Sullia
Akhila Chakshu Narayan
Authors
Muskan Garg Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. 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. Deepak Kumar Research Scientist Center Of Excellence in Weather & Climate Analytics,Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC) & Amity Institute of Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing (AIGIRS)University at Albany, State University of New York, NY USA.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).
Debabrata Samanta Department of Computing and Information Technologies, Rochester Institute of Technology, Republic of Kosovo. 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). Anuradha Sathiyaseelan Professor, Department of Psychology, Christ University, Bangalore, India. 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.
