BOOK

Mourning nature : hope at the heart of ecological loss and grief

Cunsolo, Ashlee, editor, author, Landman, Karen, editor, author

2017

Overview

\"We are facing unprecedented environmental challenges, including global climate change, large-scale industrial development, rapidly increasing species extinction, ocean acidification, and deforestation--challenges which require new vocabularies and new ways to express grief and sorrow over the disappearance, degradation, and loss of nature. Seeking to redress the silence around ecologically-based anxiety in academic and public domains, and to extend the concepts of sadness, anger, and loss, Mourning Nature creates a lexicon for the recognition and expression of emotions related to environmental degradation. Exploring the ways in which grief is experienced in numerous contexts, this groundbreaking collection draws on classical, philosophical, artistic, and poetic elements to explain environmental melancholia. Understanding that it is not just how we mourn, but what we mourn that defines us, the authors introduce a new perspective on politics, ethics, and praxis in conservation, sustainability, and connections to and relationships with nature. An ecological elegy for a time of climatic and environmental upheaval, Mourning Nature challenges readers to turn devastating events into an opportunity for positive change.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Subject: Environmental degradation Psychological aspects. / Ecological disturbances Psychological aspects. / Global environmental change Psychological aspects. / Grief. / Loss (Psychology) / Environnement Dégradation Aspect psychologique. / Perturbations écologiques Aspect psychologique. / Changement global (Environnement) Aspect psychologique. / Chagrin. / Perte (Psychologie)
• ISBN: 9780773549333, 0773549331, 9780773549340, 077354934X

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
GE140.M69 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE