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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"nature connection"”.
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Nature connection: An educational outcome for a sustainable Aotearoa New Zealand
… our social systems in ways that perpetuate human-nature disconnection (physical and psychological separation), leading to adversarial human-nature relations that allow for the ongoing exploitation and degradation of non-human nature. This disconnection is a root cause of our current sustainability …
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Embodied Virtual Reality: The Impacts of Human-Nature Connection During Engineering Design
The engineering design process can underutilize nature-based solutions during infrastructure development. Instances of nature within the built environment are reflections of the human-nature connection, which may alter how designers ideate solutions to a given design task, especially through …
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A new focus for education? Nature connection as a goal for all education: Theoretical, research and practical perspectives
… that we find new ways to approach the human-nature relationship. An effective way to enact positive change is through education. Nature connection describes a positive relationship with the natural world: how we engage with it on cognitive, affective and behavioural levels and how much we …
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Changes in nature connection: A study of the effects on the participants of taking part in an antique seed, natural farming, and seed balls workshop
… seed balls as agents of change for individuals’ connections to nature. The research investigates whether these workshops, using a combination of theoretical and practical teaching methods, can enhance participants’ understanding of environmental protection and encourage them to take action. …
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Chinese eco-films and their pastoral myth
… realities; second, to establish the human-nature connection, and third, to affirm the nature-culture unity. The conclusion is that Chinese eco-cinema exists in a hybrid form. While Hollywood influences Chinese eco-cinema in terms of production, promotion, and distribution, it manages to …
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Exploring Nature's Role as a Psychological Resource for Adults with Adverse Childhood Experiences
… This study examined whether engagement with nature moderates the adverse effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on psychological health. ACEs, which include experiences such as abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction, affect a substantial portion of the population and are linked to …
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"We are a part of nature and we must care for it”: an investigation of co-design and youth experiences in nature-based interventions for wellbeing and environmental stewardship
The widespread human disconnection from nature has been identified as a root driver of contemporary crises, including the escalating mental health crisis and environmental emergency. In response, there is an urgent need for evidence-based interventions that strengthen nature connectedness, enhance …
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Bridging Environmental Education and Nonviolent Communication: The Role of Empathy and Place in Ecological Identity From the Inside Out
… education (EE) because it forges human–nature connection, fosters ecological identity, and motivates proenvironmental behaviour. While EE often cultivates empathy through experiences in nature, it rarely teaches empathic skills explicitly; conversely, Nonviolent Communication (NVC) …
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The potential of green space in schools to enhance biodiversity, ecological knowledge and student wellbeing
… urbanisation and reduced daily contact with nature. Spending time in the presence of biodiversity is known to benefit mental health, physical health and wellbeing, and increase awareness of the natural world and conservation, yet there are concerns that direct experiences in nature are being …
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The Body of the World: A Queered Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Embodied Sensation, More-than-Human Kinships and Entangled Futures
In order to challenge Western nature connection science's binary understanding of the human-nature relationship which upholds colonial logics and risks perpetuating ongoing coloniality and limits its impact for addressing climate change intersectionally, this present research traced the lived …
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Perceptions of Nature Among People Experiencing Homelessness
… insecurity to determine their perceptions of nature, both positive and negative. This study utilized the theoretical frameworks of biophilia, ecological systems theory, social-ecological model, and risk and protection factors to understand the human-nature connection and the importance of …
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Freedom to Be - An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Experience of Connection with Nature in the Forest
… study explores the experience of connection with nature in the forest setting. Research on nature-based therapies and health promotion interventions suggests that connecting with nature is important to receive optimal health benefits from nature contact. The research evidence …
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Wildhoods: Bioregionalism and the Child Figure in Contemporary Canadian Literature
… investigations of the child’s relationship with nature, collections such as Sidney I. Dobrin and Kenneth B. Kidd’s Wild Things: Children’s Culture and Ecocriticism (2004) and Amy Cutter-Mackenzie, Phillip G. Payne, and Alan Reid’s Experiencing Environment and Place through Children’s Literature …
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Psychosocial factors affecting enactment of pro-environmental values by individuals in their work to influence organisational practices
… partners, constructing a motivational story, nature connection) • Ecologically adaptive and maladaptive outcomes of these responses for the individual and the organisation (including indirect impacts on vitality and effectiveness) • Factors affecting the efficacy of adaptive coping strategies …
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Enabling more Holistic Consideration of Value in Socio-ecological Relationships:: A Well-being Centred Approach
People who are connected to nature feel happier, enjoy time in natural settings and feel grateful for benefits from nature. They also tend to repay nature’s generosity with proenvironmental behaviours. The widespread human-nature disconnect has created an<br/>operating environment where destructive …
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Towards a space/nature syntax : the influence of spatial configuration and a view of nature on social interaction, with Arcosanti, Arizona, USA, as case study
… evolutionary theory which holds that there is a connection between humans and non-human Nature which is innate: that when this connection is provided the human mind performs at its best, and when this connection is absent the human mind is in a state of deterioration. Increasingly, research in …
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Biophilia and Wellbeing: A multi-method study on indoor plants, mental health, and prosocial behaviour
… promoting health, with biophilia — human innate connection to nature — being a factor. A literature review illustrates the relationship between exposure to nature and both hedonic and eudaimonic well-being, identifying research gaps. A scoping review further informed the methodologies used in …
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Kei hea te tangi a te Tūī? An exploration of Kaitiakitanga in urban spaces
Indigenous people’s connection to the natural world differs from place to place. In Aotearoa, New Zealand, Māori connection to nature is often articulated through the concept of kaitiakitanga whilst intertwining concepts of whakapapa, wairua, mana, mauri and place. Kaitiakitanga captures the …