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Figure 2: USGS USGS.gov
Figure 3: Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 4.0/
Figure 4: in Steffen, W., Sanderson, A., Tyson, P., Jäger, J., Matson, P., Moore, B., Oldfield, F., Richardson, K., Schellnhuber, J., Turner, B.L. and Wasson, R.(2004) Global Change and the Earth System: A Planet Under Pressure. Available at: http://www.igbp.net/ download/ 18.1b8ae20512db692f2a680007761/ 1376383137895/ IGBP_ExecSummary_eng.pdf
Section 3 image: Tom Fisk/Pexels
Figure 5: Photograph: Matt Roth
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
Figure 1: Book Cover: The New Climate War (2021): The Fight to Take Back Our Planet. Author Michael E. Mann. Publisher: Public Affairs, 2021
Figure 1: adapted from Figure 4 Living with the Ecological Crisis in Pihkala, P. (2022) ‘The Process of Eco-Anxiety and Ecological Grief: A Narrative Review and a New Proposal’, Sustainability, 14(24), p. 16628. doi:10.3390/su142416628. Copyright: © 2022 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. An open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 4.0/
Figure 2 The window of tolerance: courtesy: Trudi Macagnino
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Video: Ayisha Siddiqa at COP27 Polluters Out Video: courtesy: GlobalWitness https://www.youtube.com/ shorts/ 6n3mBaeJN80YouTube
Video The earth has a memory: ‘So much about your sustainability, my people are dying’ by Ayisha Siddiqa. Poem inspired by Palestinian poets Rafif Ziadah and Noor Hindi. Courtesy of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University School of Law https://www.law.nyu.edu/ centers/ chrgj-center-for-human-rights-global-justice
Video: from Make My Money Matter: courtesy: Make My Money Matter https://makemymoneymatter.co.uk/
Video: Rosemary Randall discussing Worden’s grief model https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=dHIEwsFBvSA Courtesy: Rosemary Randall
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