Lament for the Land: On the Impacts of Climate Change on Mental and Emotional Health and Well-Being in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut, Canada

• Main Author: Cunsolo Willox, Ashlee
• Other Authors: Landman, Karen, Houle, Karen
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: climate change; environmental change; mental health; emotional health; health; adaptation; mourning; work of mourning; place-attachment; adaptive capacities; mental and emotional resilience; Inuit; Canada; Rigolet; First Nations; Ice; inuit; permafrost
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10214/3545

As the impacts from anthropogenic climate change are felt around the globe, people are increasingly exposed to changes in weather, temperature, wildlife and vegetation patterns, and water and food quality and availability. These changes impact human health and well-being, and resultantly, climate ch...