John Jamir Benzon

Abstract Over the past decade, climate change anxiety has moved from a mainly conceptual and interdisciplinary concern to a rapidly expanding empirical field in environmental psychology, mental health, and behavioural science. Early scholarship helped establish that climate-related anxiety can be an intelligible and often non-clinical response to real ecological threat, while also recognising that, in some cases, distress may become persistent, overwhelming, and functionally impairing.

Abstract Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic.