Panu Pihkala

Publications

Research output per year 2005 2011 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

• 146 Article
• 36 Chapter
• 11 Other articles
• 10 Book
• 15 More
  • 5 Review Article
  • 2 Anthology or special issue
  • 2 Commissioned report
  • 1 Conference contribution
  • 1 Entry for encyclopedia / dictionary
  • 1 Comment/debate
  • 1 Editorial
  • 1 Doctoral Thesis
  • 1 Master's thesis

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2025

  Literature and Reading as Ways to Engage With Climate Anxiety in Classrooms

  Grünthal, S., Lahtinen, T. & Pihkala, P., 2025, Addressing Climate Anxiety in Schools: Pedagogical Perspectives and Theoretical Foundations. Corkett, J. K. & Steele, A. (eds.). Routledge, 21 p. (Research and Teaching in Environmental Studies).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review

• 2024

  Centering an Environmental Ethic in Climate Crisis

  Kurth, C. B. & Pihkala, P., 7 Mar 2024, The Cambridge Handbook on Ethics and Education. Fraser-Burgess, S., Heybach, J. & Metro-Roland, D. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 734-757 24 p. (Cambridge Handbooks in Education).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific

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• Climate Anxiety, Maturational Loss, and Adversarial Growth

  Pihkala, P., Jan 2024, In: Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. 77, 1, p. 369-388 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

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• Climate Sorrow: Discerning Various Forms of Climate Grief and Responding to Them as a Therapist

  Pihkala, P., Apr 2024, Being a Therapist in a Time of Climate Breakdown. Anderson, J., Staunton, T., O'Gorman, J. & Hickman, C. (eds.). London & New York: Routledge, p. 157-166

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Professional

• Definitions and Conceptualizations of Climate Distress: An International Perspective

  Pihkala, P., 2024, Climate Change and Youth Mental Health: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Haase, E. & Hudson, K. (eds.). New York: Cambridge University Press, p. 21-39

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Professional

• Ecological Grief, Religious Coping, and Spiritual Crises: Exploring Eco-Spiritual Grief

  Pihkala, P., 25 Jul 2024, In: Pastoral Psychology. 28 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

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• Ecological Sorrow: Types of Grief and Loss in Ecological Grief

  Pihkala, P., Jan 2024, In: Sustainability (Switzerland). 16, 2, 44 p., 849.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

  Open Access

• Editorial: International day of happiness: happiness and wellbeing in the age of climate catastrophe

  Kemp, A. H., Fisher, Z. & Pihkala, P., 8 Oct 2024, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 15, 5 p., 1497347.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › Scientific

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• Emotional and Affective Issues in Environmental and Sustainability Education

  Pihkala, P., 2024, Oxford Bibliographies in Education. Meyer, L. H. (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review

• Engaging with Climate Grief, Guilt, and Anger in Religious Communities

  Pihkala, P., 29 Aug 2024, In: Religions. 15, 9, 1052.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

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• How Western Buddhist climate activists negotiate climate emotions

  Cairns, J. & Pihkala, P., 2024, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 15, 1487258.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

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• How Western Buddhists Combine Buddhism and Climate Activism

  Cairns, J., Pihkala, P. & Grönlund, H., 7 Jul 2024, In: Contemporary Buddhism: an interdisciplinary journal. 24, 1-2, p. 70-109 40 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

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• Katsaus ympäristötunteiden tutkimukseen (alkuvuosi 2024)

  Pihkala, P., 28 Feb 2024, In: www.ymparistoahdistus.fi.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Other articles › General public

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• Lukiolaiset Teemestarin kirjaa lukemassa: Ilmastokirjallisuuden herättämiä ajatuksia ja tunteita

  Helle, A., Lahtinen, T., Löytty, O. & Pihkala, P., 2024, In: Kulttuurintutkimus. 41, 3, p. 22-37 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

• The perceived impact of climate change on mental health and suicidality in Kenyan high school students

  Ndetei, D. M., Wasserman, D., Mutiso, V., Shanley, J. R., Musyimi, C., Nyamai, P., Munyua, T., Swahn, M. H., Weisz, J. R., Osborn, T. L., Bhui, K., Johnson, N. E., Pihkala, P., Memiah, P., Gilbert, S., Javed, A. & Sourander, A., 12 Feb 2024, In: BMC Psychiatry. 24, 16 p., 117.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

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• Working with ecological emotions: Mind Map and Spectrum Line

  Pihkala, P., Apr 2024, The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World. Atkinson, J. & Ray, S. J. (eds.). Oakland: University of California Press, p. 123-132 10 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Professional

• Ympäristökriisi ja elämänmerkitykset: Joel Vosin merkitysteoria ympäristöahdistuksen kontekstissa

  Pihkala, P., 14 Oct 2024, In: Teologinen Aikakauskirja. 129, 3, p. 260-279 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

• Youth work and climate emotions

  Pihkala, P., 25 Sept 2024, Youth and democracy in the climate crisis. Jamie, G., Tomi, K., Lana, P. & Valledo, E. (eds.). Strasbourg: Council of Europe and European Commission, p. 89-109 21 p. (Youth knowledge; vol. 31).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Professional

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• 2023

  Ahdistaako ilmastonmuutos?

  Pihkala, P., 2023, In: Parikanniemen kontti. 3, p. 6-7

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Other articles › General public

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• Complex dynamics of climate emotions among environmentally active Finnish and American young people

  Coppola, I. & Pihkala, P., 17 Jan 2023, In: Frontiers in Political Science . 4, 18 p., 1063741.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

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• Eco-anxiety as a dimension of European anxious experiences

  Pihkala, P., 2023, Crisis and the Culture of Fear and Anxiety in Contemporary Europe. Zamorano Llena, C., Stier, J. & Gray, B. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 136-151 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review

• Kirjallisuus ja lukeminen ilmastokriisin aikakaudella

  Helle, A., Koistinen, A.-K., Lahtinen, T., Löytty, O., Pihkala, P. & Värri, V.-M., 2023, In: Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen Aikakauslehti Avain. 20, 2, p. 86-95 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article

• Lyhyt katsaus eläinteologiaan

  Pihkala, P., Mar 2023, Eläinteologia ja eläinoikeudet kirkon kysymyksenä. Latvus, K. & Pesonen, H. (eds.). Helsinki: Kirkon tutkimus ja koulutus, p. 41-46 6 p. (Suomen ev.-lut. kirkon tutkimusjulkaisuja; no. 140).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review

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• Meaning and eco-anxiety

  Pihkala, P., 4 Jul 2023, In: Eco-Anxious Stories.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Other articles › General public

  Open Access

• Näkökulmia suomalaisen eläinteologian historiaan

  Pihkala, P., Mar 2023, Eläinteologia ja eläinoikeudet kirkon kysymyksenä. Pesonen, H. & Latvus, K. (eds.). Helsinki: Kirkon tutkimus ja koulutus, p. 187-218 32 p. (Suomen ev.-lut. kirkon tutkimusjulkaisuja; no. 140).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review

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• Psychological and Emotional Responses to Climate Change among Young People Worldwide: Differences Associated with Gender, Age, and Country

  Clayton, S. D., Pihkala, P., Wray, B. & Marks, E., Feb 2023, In: Sustainability (Switzerland). 15, 4, 12 p., 3540.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

  Open Access

• Siirtymävaiheen suru nousee käynnissä olevasta muutoksesta

  Pihkala, P., 9 Mar 2023, In: Helsingin Sanomat. 9.3.2023, p. B8

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Other articles › General public

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• Suruteorioiden soveltamista ympäristösuruun

  Pihkala, P., 2023, In: Elonkehä : syväekologinen kulttuurilehti. 1/23, p. 50-57 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › General public

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• Syyllisyys on ympäristökeskustelun avaintunne

  Translated title of the contribution: Ecological guilt as a keystone emotionPihkala, P., 16 Mar 2023, In: Voima. 2, p. 32-33 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › General public

  Open Access

• The rising interest in eco-anxiety is happy news

  Pihkala, P., 13 Oct 2023, In: Happy Eco News.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Other articles › General public

  Open Access

• Tunteet osana ulkona opettamista

  Pihkala, P., 2023, Ulkona opettamisen käsikirja. Kaasinen, A. & Myllyniemi, U. (eds.). Jyväskylä: PS-kustannus, p. 45-54

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Professional

• Viljelyä, varjelua ja pyhitettyä syömistä: ruoka ekoteologiassa

  Pihkala, P., 2023, Pyhä, paha ruoka: Uskonnon ja etiikan näkökulmia. Mäkinen, V., Pesonen, H. & Uro, R. (eds.). Helsinki: Gaudeamus, p. 267-278 12 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review

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• Yhteiskunnallisesti elämme ilmastomurrosikää

  Pihkala, P., Jul 2023, Elämän vuoksi. Kotiaho, J., Ylikulju, K., Hytönen, J. & Kuusiaho, V. (eds.). Helsinki: Into kustannus, p. 106-114

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › General public

• Ympäristöahdistus ja -tunteet koskettavat monia

  Rintala, H., Pihkala, P. & Saarimäki, S., 2023, In: Duodecim. 139, 10, p. 843-849 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › peer-review

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• 2022

  Climate anxiety: Conceptual considerations, and connections with climate hope and action

  Sangervo, J., Jylhä, K. M. & Pihkala, P., Sept 2022, In: Global Environmental Change. 76, 11 p., 102569.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

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• Commentary: Three tasks for eco-anxiety research - a commentary on Thompson et al. (2021)

  Pihkala, P., Feb 2022, In: Child and Adolescent Mental Health. 27, 1, p. 92-93 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › Scientific

• Eco-anxiety: What it is and why it matters

  Kurth, C. & Pihkala, P., 23 Sept 2022, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 13, 13 p., 981814.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › peer-review

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• Eco-anxiety and Pastoral Care: Theoretical Considerations and Practical Suggestions

  Pihkala, P., 23 Feb 2022, In: Religions. 13, 3, p. 19 19 p., 192.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

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• Introduction: Eco-Anxiety, Climate Change, and the Coronavirus

  Pihkala, P., Oct 2022, Eco-Anxiety and Pandemic Distress: Psychological Perspectives on Resilience and Interconnectedness. Vakoch, D. A. & Mickey, S. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 1-28 28 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific

• Introduction: Eco-anxiety, Climate, Coronavirus, and Hope

  Pihkala, P., 2022, Eco-anxiety and Planetary Hope: Experiencing the Twin Disasters of COVID-19 and Climate Change. Vakoch, D. A. & Mickey, S. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. v-xvii 13 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific

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• Kirjallisuuden ympäristötunteet ja empiirinen ekokritiikki

  Pihkala, P. & Helle, A., 9 Sept 2022, In: Joutsen : kotimaisen kirjallisuudentutkimuksen vuosikirja. 2022, p. 31-50 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

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• Klimakummer, Klimadepression und Solastalgie

  Translated title of the contribution: Climate grief, climate depression and solastalgiaPihkala, P., Oct 2022, Climate Emotions: Klimakrise und psychische Gesundheit. van Bronswijk, K. & Hausmann, C. M. (eds.). Gießen: Psychosozial-verlag, p. 97-128 32 p. (Forum Psychosozial).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific

• Learning to live with climate change: from anxiety to transformation

  Pihkala, P., Mar 2022, In: Australian Journal of Environmental Education. 38, 1, p. 124-126 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › peer-review

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• Nuorten ilmastoahdistus ja ympäristötunteet

  Translated title of the contribution: Youth climate anxiety and eco-emotions (in the Finnish Youth Barometer 2021)Pihkala, P., Julia, S. & Jylhä, K. M., 16 Mar 2022, Kestävää tekoa. Nuorisobarometri 2021. Kiilakoski, T. (ed.). Helsinki: Valtion nuorisoneuvosto, Nuorisotutkimusseura, Nuorisotutkimusverkosto, opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriö, p. 95-116 22 p. (Julkaisuja; no. 237).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › General public

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• Surun ja ilon leikki

  Pihkala, P., Nov 2022, In: Elonkehä : syväekologinen kulttuurilehti. 4/2022, p. 40-45 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › General public

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• The Process of Eco-Anxiety and Ecological Grief: A Narrative Review and a New Proposal

  Pihkala, P., 12 Dec 2022, In: Sustainability (Switzerland). 14, 24

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

  Open Access

• Toward a Taxonomy of Climate Emotions

  Pihkala, P., 14 Jan 2022, In: Frontiers in climate. 3, 22 p., 738154.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

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• Ympäristöahdistustutkimuksen tilanne keväällä 2022

  Pihkala, P., 13 May 2022, In: www.ymparistoahdistus.fi.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Other articles › General public

  Open Access
• 2021

  Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey

  Hickman, C., Marks, E., Pihkala, P., Clayton, S., Lewandowski, R. E., Mayall, E. E., Wray, B., Mellor, C. & van Susteren, L., Dec 2021, In: The Lancet Planetary Health. 5, 12, p. e863-e873 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

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• Eco-anxiety

  Pihkala, P., 2021, Situating Sustainability: A Handbook of Contexts and Concepts. Parker Krieg, C. & Toivanen, R. (eds.). Helsinki : Helsinki University Press, p. 119-133 15 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review

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