日時: 2025.6.4(Wed) 10:00-
場所: Online Only.
Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/96457233868?pwd=bVf6a8WtmqzGGAVKeoTVULZZdZ5OJs.1
スピーカー: Gerhard Reese (Victoria University Wellington)
タイトル: A multi-level model of mental and planetary health.

Abstract:
Global environmental crises are global mental health crises. Both are inextricably linked and causally affect each other but attention to the underlying systemic connections has hardly been paid. The current review seeks to identify and synthesize these interlinkages, resulting in a Multi-level Model of Mental and Planetary Health. This model provides an overarching, systemic framework, integrating various strands of research that explicate the links between both planetary and mental health. To do so, I first delineate the multi-level structure of how the planet’s situation affects our mental health and vice versa. I will then address multiple paths that lead from one level to another, and provide empirical evidence for these relations, primarily focusing on well-established research that is secured primarily by reviews and meta-analyses. Finally, I look forward to discuss concrete policy recommendations from the framework and pose a call for urgent professional and scientific action.

Short Bio:
Gerhard Reese works as Associate Professor for Climate Change at the Victoria University Wellington in New Zealand. Before, he was Professor and head of the Environmental Psychology Research Unit at the University Kaiserslautern-Landau in Germany. He received his PhD in Psychology from Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, and his research focuses on the individual, collective and systemic predictors of sustainable behavior, with a specific focus on the role of social identities and efficacy beliefs. He also has a strong interest in the link between nature and mental health and well-being. He seeks to spend more time outdoors than indoors, and is still quite a good competitor in the different Super Mario Kart versions (although his son wins most of the time).