Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Trudi Macagnino, Wendy Hollway and Evangelos Ntontis.

With thanks to Climate Psychology Alliance [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] for use of material from their website.

Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence.

The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course:

Images

Figure 1: (also Activity 4): A definition of eco-anxiety. In Handbook of Climate Psychology (p. 22) , Psychology Alliance https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/ images/ files/ handbookofclimatepsychology.pdf https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/

Section 5 image: Hickman Scale: adapted by The Open University based on: Hickman, C. (2020) ‘We need to (find a way to) talk about … eco-anxiety’, Journal of Social Work Practice, 34(4), pp. 411–24. https://www.tandfonline.com/ doi/ full/ 10.1080/ 02650533.2020.1844166

Video

Video: Climate Change and Thirst. Courtesy Shelot Masithi

Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

Don't miss out

If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses.