Eco-anxiety and Hope: Table of Contents
Eco-anxiety and Hope is a groundbreaking monograph about the challenges of living in the Anthropocene. First published in Finnish in October 2017, the book is currently being translated into English. The book consists of two parts and many short chapters. The first part, "Eco-anxiety", provides an in-depth description of the phenomenon. The second part builds a constructive account of hoping in the Anthropocene. Part One: Eco-anxiety Introduction 1. Elephant in the Room Onboard the Ship 2. What is Eco-anxiety? 3. Why is it so difficult to react constructively to environmental problems? 4. The Invisible Wall of Silence The Crew Member Childhood and Youth 5. Developmental Psychology and Human-Environment-relations 6. Children and Nature – and the Crisis The Child 7. The Development of the Psyche and Encountering Environmental Damage 8. How Do the Youth See the World? Young passengers 9. Post-ecological era and Games of Thrones