Panu Pihkala is an adjunct professor (Title of Docent) of environmental theology at the Faculty of Theology in the University of Helsinki, Finland. Pihkala is the leading Finnish scholar in eco-anxiety research, and he is known internationally as an expert in interdisciplinary eco-emotion studies. Many of his research articles from the 2020s have over 40,000 …
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Lucy Schultz
Lucy Christine Schultz is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of Environmental Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Oregon and an MA in Philosophy and the Arts from SUNY Stony Brook. Her research revolves around questions pertaining to dialectic, philosophy of nature and …
Paula Arai
Paula Arai (Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies, Harvard University) holds the Eshinni & Kakushinni Chair of Women and Buddhist Studies at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley, California. She is author of Women Living Zen, Bringing Zen Home, Painting Enlightenment: Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra, and The Little Book of Zen Healing: Japanese Rituals …
David R. Loy
David Robert Loy is a professor of Buddhist and comparative philosophy (now retired). He is also a Zen teacher in the Sanbo Zen tradition of Japanese Zen Buddhism. He is a prolific author, and his articles appear regularly in the pages of Buddhist magazines including Tricycle, Lion’s Roar, and Buddhadharma, as well as in a …
Jyoti Mishra
Dr. Jyoti Mishra is an Associate Professor in the department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego. She is the founder and director of the NEATLabs and the Co-director of the University of California’s Climate Resilience Initiative. She also serves as a member of The Mind Body Ecology Institute Circle of Advisors. Jyoti …
Karen O’ Brien
Karen O’Brien is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is also co-founder of cCHANGE, a social enterprise that promotes a conscious and collaborative approach to sustainability transformations. Her research focuses on the human and social dimensions of environmental change. She is committed to understanding and …
Constanza Baquedano
Constanza Baquedano Larraín earned her degree in Biochemistry at the University of Santiago de Chile, her Master’s degree in Neuroscience at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and her dual Doctorate in Neuroscience through a joint supervision between the Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in Lyon, France, and the Catholic University of Chile. Dr. Baquedano …
