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Environmental Psychology
Puerto Rico
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The impact of climate change is a global phenomenon that is important to analyze in our contemporaneity. To examine the foundations of climate change and environmental psychology, we conducted a literature review that intertwined environmental and psychological aspects. Significant findings reveal that geophysical climate change has detrimental effects on mental health and represents what is known as climate anxiety (Clayton, 2019). To mitigate the aforementioned impact, we found that the creation and use of green spaces promote mental health (Kabish, 2019; Dadvand et al., 2019; Cook et al., 2019; Hunter et al., 2021; Milligan-Toffler et al., 2021). Green spaces are restorative environments because they contribute to stress reduction and attention recovery (Marselle, 2019; Kaplan & Kaplan, 1989). Finally, Psychology can contribute to the processes of adaptation and mitigation individually and collectively. To achieve contributions, we must strengthen government management to contribute to public and social policies that lead us to psychosocial change to rescue nature. Facing the ravages of climate change calls us to solidarity and sensitivity to appeal to a social commitment.
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