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Record W4406924700 · doi:10.1093/oxfclm/kgaf002

Developing a typology of climate grief expressions in Canada: a scoping review

2025· review· en· W4406924700 on OpenAlexaffabout
Melanie Zurba, Sara E. Boyd, Bryanne Lamoureux, Morgan Brimacombe, Aden Morton-Ferguson, Erica Mendritzki, Andrew Park, David Busolo, Roberta L. Woodgate, Lisa Binkley

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford Open Climate Change · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicClimate Change Communication and Perception
Canadian institutionsUniversity of ManitobaUniversité de MonctonDalhousie UniversityUniversity of New BrunswickUniversity of WinnipegNSCAD University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTypologyGriefAnxietyPsychologyClimate changeSociologyPsychotherapistPsychiatryEcologyAnthropology

Abstract

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Abstract Increasing temperatures, severe storms, wildfires, and melting sea ice have made climate change a reality for Canadians. Climatic change can cause experiences of grieving and loss, often termed ‘climate grief.’ Our objective was to better understand emotions related to climate change by developing a typology illustrating the ways people in Canada express climate grief. In a scoping review (in English and French) of databases, popular media, social media, and art, we identified nine primary ‘mediums’ through which climate grief is discussed and expressed: (i) peer-reviewed research; (ii) grey literature; (iii) guiding frameworks; (iv) education; (v) social action gathering; (vi) mental health support; (vii) religions and spiritual practice; (viii) artistic expression; and (ix) media. Additionally, within those mediums we identified and categorized 26 forms of expression (secondary), and 40 types of expression (tertiary). Our review collected sources until 2022 and found that people in Canada express climate grief through diverse mediums, spanning Canadian provinces and territories. This typology can strengthen education, learning, and environmental decision-making to find new avenues to support the emotional and physical toll climate change can have on people in Canada.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.791
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0030.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.706
GPT teacher head0.565
Teacher spread0.141 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designOther design
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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