Adapting to and Coping With the Threat and Impacts of Climate Change

American Psychologist

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 277-289

  Reser, Joseph P ^a   Swim, Janet K ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Environmental stress; Psychological adaptation; Psychologically significant behavior; Stress and coping

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; COPING BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BEHAVIOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79955974168     PISSN: 0003066X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023412     Document Type: Article

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