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Urgent Biophilia: Green Space Visits in Wellington, New Zealand, during the COVID-19 Lockdowns

open access: yesLand, 2022
Urgent biophilia describes the conscious desire of humans to seek interactions with nature during periods of stress. This study examines the changes in frequency and reason for visiting urban green spaces by residents of Wellington, New Zealand, to ...
Maggie MacKinnon   +4 more
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A Meta-Analysis of Emotional Evidence for the Biophilia Hypothesis and Implications for Biophilic Design

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
The biophilia hypothesis posits an innate biological and genetic connection between human and nature, including an emotional dimension to this connection.
Jason S. Gaekwad   +3 more
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BIOPHYLIA AND BIOPHYLIC DESIGN EFFECTS ON QUALITY OF LIFE

open access: yesAgricultura, 2020
In his book Biophilia (1984), Edward O. Wilson, the promoter of the concept of biophilia, defines this concept as "the desire to affiliate with other life forms," suggesting that humans tend to seek connections with nature, with other forms of life, this
Oana Răcușan   +2 more
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Biophilia

open access: yes, 2022
Biofilia significa amor pela vida ou pelas coisas vivas, diz respeito à nossa conexão natural com as formas naturais e explica a necessária união do ser humano com a natureza, de uma forma ancestral e evolutiva. Essa conexão se constrói de muitas formas, através da ciência e também do sagrado.
openaire   +3 more sources

Personalised ecology and the future of biodiversity

open access: yesCambridge Prisms: Extinction, 2023
The future of biodiversity lies not just in the strategies and mechanisms by which ecosystems and species are practically best protected from anthropogenic pressures.
Kevin J. Gaston   +2 more
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Frommian Biophilic Ethics in Tolstoy’s The death of Ivan Ilyich [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Investigations, 2022
Ilene Philipson, the Californian born sociologist and licensed psychologist, asserts that Erich Fromm is the second widely read psychoanalyst in the world standing after Freud.
Ahad Mehrvand, Naser Karmatfar
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Biophilia and Sustainable Museum Education Practices

open access: yesMuseum & Society, 2018
Museums offer significant learning experiences that contribute to sustainable societies and lifelong learning. However, museum education has historically been a field in flux, and a constant revitalization is needed.
AlmaDís Kristinsdóttir
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Environmental Decline, Loss, and Biophilia

open access: yesCritical Social Work, 2019
In exploring our personal sense of loss as a response to environmental decline, this article outlines several dimensions of this experience (guilt, shame, helplessness, anxiety, environmental disequilibrium, environmental trauma, cosmological loneliness),
Mishka Lysack
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Eco-psychotherapy for the Revitalization of Psyche: Eco-psychological Reading of Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات بین‌رشته‌ای ادبیات، هنر و علوم انسانی
The deep tragedy, that the environmental damages and mental problems have caused for human, led to the development of an interdisciplinary approach -ecopsychology- which is the integration of ecology and psychology to examine above all biophilia and its ...
Narges Raoufzadeh   +2 more
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