Understanding Climate Anxiety

How should we react to climate anxiety? This accessible book discusses anxiety and other emotions brought on by climate change, examining what climate anxiety is, why it is becoming so prevalent and how it differs from other types of anxiety.

List of contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Who am I and Why am I giving you this advice?
PART 1: The context of climate anxiety.
Chapter 1: Introduction: What is climate anxiety?.
Chapter 2: Shouldn't we all have climate anxiety?
Chapter 3: Do helplines actually help us when it comes to climate anxiety?
Chapter 4: Is climate anxiety made worse by other global crises?
PART 2: Climate anxiety and the brain
Chapter 5: Why can't people make up their mind about climate change?
Chapter 6: Why don't we do more?
Chapter 7: Can models of anxiety help us understand climate anxiety?
PART 3: Contesting climate anxiety/contesting climate change
Chapter 8: Why do people claim climate change is fake news?
Chapter 9: How can people stay happy with climate change?
Chapter 10: Is there a stigma surrounding climate anxiety?
PART 4: Thinking of the future
Chapter 11: New horizons?
Glossary
References:

About the author

Geoff Beattie is Professor of Psychology at Edge Hill University and Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford, UK. He is a prize-winning psychologist, author and broadcaster with a PhD in Psychology from the University of Cambridge. He was awarded the Spearman Medal by the British Psychological Society for 'published psychological research of outstanding merit'. He has published over one hundred academic articles in a range of journals including Nature, Nature Climate Change, Environment and Behavior, and Semiotica. Beattie has acted as a consultant to various international organisations with a focus on sustainability, including Unilever, the Leadership Vanguard (established by the CEO of Unilever), and the Born Free Foundation. He is also a member of the International Panel on Behavior Change (IPBC) which aims to collect and integrate knowledge and evidence on environmentally-related behaviour change.

Product details

• Authors: Geoff Beattie, Geoff (Edge Hill University Beattie
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032616766
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3261676-6
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: BPS Ask The Experts in Psychology Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, Climate Change, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, Abnormal psychology, Child & developmental psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Science / Environmental Science, Groups & group theory, Groups and group theory