MENTAL HEALTH IN COVID ERA: SUSTAINABILITY IN ANTHROPOCENE

2020 and 2021 would perhaps be remembered by most for all the wrong reasons - personal losses, loss of employment, change in livelihood, economic turmoil, medical challenges, isolation, battle all around - the virus outside and the disease within. But it would also be remembered by some, if not many, as the years which led to gross changes in thinking and life approaches. Perhaps no other event had shaken global humanity as much, for the last few decades.Against this backdrop was this book born - a product then of tumultuous times. The virus and more like it are inevitable, if humankind chooses to continue thus, unabated. The pandemic is a grim warning of further and more such. We could try -the green way, through flora-fauna and nature, to conservation and respect for other's existence, to concern for habit-habitat, to awareness of global-local, from social commitment to individual well-being. The decision is ours -entirely.Let us then consciously move from barrenness to green, from darkness to wisdom...hereafter.

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Supatra Sen, Assistenzprofessorin (Botanik) am Asutosh College, erwarb ihren Bachelor of Science am Presidency College und ihren Master of Science, Master of Philosophy, Master of Education und Doktortitel an der Universität Kalkutta. In ihrer Lehrtätigkeit, die ein breites Spektrum abdeckt, blieb der Bereich Umwelt der rote Faden. Im Rahmen ihrer Forschungstätigkeit im Bereich Öko-Physiologie wurde sie 2014 mit dem Preis "Umweltschützer des Jahres" ausgezeichnet.