Albrecht, G.A  (2006) The ethics of climate chaos. Journal of the Asia Pacific Centre for Environmental Accountability,          12, 19-21.

Sartore, G., Stain, H., Kelly, B., Higginbotham, N., Albrecht, G., and Toona, A. (2005) Health in a
Rural   New South Wales community, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 39(s1): A183.

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Albrecht, G., Higginbotham, N., Cashman, P. and Flint, K. (2004). Evolution of transdisciplinarity and ecosystem health at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. EcoHealth, 1(1):23-29.
Abstract:
Antipodean pioneers of transdisciplinary (TD)  thinking at the University of Newcastle,
Glenn Albrecht and Nick Higginbotham, have applied this perspective to contexts of
human health globally and to the development of health social science as an emerging TD field. Nick Higginbotham has successfully championed the cause of TD thinking in international networks such as The International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN) and the International Forum for Social Sciences and Health (IFSSH). Glenn Albrecht has connected the Newcastle variety of TD thinking to its independently created doppelganger in the form of TD Ecosystem Health as pioneered by David Rapport in Canada. The convergence of TD thinking and Ecosystem Health at Newcastle has promoted a new curriculum in both undergraduate and postgraduate health and environmental sciences courses. Furthermore,
TD research teams have been created and pursue investigations of both health and environmental problems. A successful national conference on transdisciplinary approaches
to ecosystem health in Australia was held at Newcastle in April 2003. This paper details the history of the evolution and synthesis of Transdisciplinarity, Ecosystem Health and Ecohealth
at the University of Newcastle, Australia, over a period from 1988 to the present.

Connor, L, Albrecht, G, Higginbotham, N., Smith W., & Freeman, S. (2004)
Environmental Change and Human Health in Upper Hunter Communities of New South Wales, Australia, in EcoHealth, 1(Supp.2): 47-58.

Abstract:

This paper presents the theory and method informing an on-going study of environmental
change and human distress in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales (NSW),
Australia. The nature of environmental change in the Upper Hunter landscape over the
past two centuries is first described, followed by the preliminary results of a long term study
that aims to investigate the nature of residents’ understanding of, and responses to,
environmental change. Data from in-depth interviews found that the transformation of the environment from mining and power station activities was associated with significant
expressions of distress linked to negative changes to interviewees’ sense of place, well being
and control.  A new concept, ‘solastalgia’, is introduced to help explain the relationship
between ecosystem health, human health and powerlessness. We claim that solastalgia,
as opposed to nostalgia, is a type of homesickness (distress) that one gets when one is still
“at home”. Future research will aim to validate a questionnaire to test the hypothesis that environmental distress is associated with levels of depression, quality of life, and rates of stress-related disease, as well as activism and environmental rehabilitation.