Ecological grief as a mental health response to climate change-related loss

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Nature Climate Change

• Publication date

  2018-04-01

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1038/s41558-018-0092-2
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