Examining relationships between climate change and mental health in the Circumpolar North

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 169-182

  Cunsolo Willox, Ashlee ^a   Stephenson, Eleanor ^b   Allen, Jim ^c   Bourque, François ^d   Drossos, Alexander ^e   Elgarøy, Sigmund ^f   Kral, Michael J ^g   Mauro, Ian ^h   Moses, Joshua ⁱ   Pearce, Tristan ^j,k   MacDonald, Joanna Petrasek ^b   Wexler, Lisa ^l  

^a CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f Sami National Centre for Mental Health   (Norway)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

ⁱ HAVERFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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Author keywords

Arctic; Circumpolar North; Climate change; Indigenous; Mental health

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939878330     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-014-0630-z     Document Type: Article

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