Ecopsychology had been described as a project made up of four tasks:

• the psychological task — “to acknowledge and better understand the human-nature relationship as a relationship”
• the philosophical task — “to place psyche (soul) back into the natural world;”
• the practical task — “to develop therapeutic and recollective practices toward an ecological society,”
• the critical task — “to engage in ecospychologically-based criticism,” i.e., to challenge the widespread and pervasive anthropocentrism in modern western society