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Cultivating biophilia: Domestic gardens foster positive emotions towards wildlife, with gardening influence shaped by species' ecological functions

People and Nature
Understanding how different types of nature interactions influence emotional responses to animal species is especially important in the context of the biodiversity crisis, as these emotions can shape conservation‐related attitudes and behaviours ...
Quentin Dutertre, Mathieu Lachaise, Blanche Collard, Emmanuelle Baudry   +3 more
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Dryland Watershed Restoration With Rock Detention Structures: A Nature-based Solution to Mitigate Drought, Erosion, Flooding, and Atmospheric Carbon

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2021
Historic land degradation is an ongoing threat to the Sky Islands of southern Arizona, US, and northern Sonora, Mexico, an area designated as a globally significant biodiversity hotspot.
Jennifer Gooden, Jennifer Gooden, Jennifer Gooden, Richard Pritzlaff, Richard Pritzlaff   +4 more
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End-Point Predictors of Water Quality in Tropical Rivers

Pollutants, 2023
End-point evaluation of stream health is essential for the quantification of water quality. To this end, many Multi-Metric Indices (MMIs) have been developed to quantify water quality.
Thomas Shahady, José Joaquín Montero-Ramírez   +1 more
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Editorial: Preventing zoonoses. Promoting biophilia

Frontiers in Conservation Science
Jamie K. Reaser, Jamie K. Reaser, Hongying Li, Isla M. Kirkey, Thomas H. Beery, Sean Southey   +5 more
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Confirmative biophilic framework for heritage management.

PLoS ONE, 2022
Heritage managers often reuse heritage sites to attract tourists and conserve the sites. Not all adaptive heritage reuses achieve sustainable development. Biophilia is an innate, biological tendency to be close to natural and cultural elements, which may
Hung-Ming Tu
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Urgent Biophilia: Green Space Visits in Wellington, New Zealand, during the COVID-19 Lockdowns

Land, 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, Rebecca MacKinnon, Maibritt Pedersen Zari, Kain Glensor, Tim Park   +4 more
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One thousand good things in Nature: aspects of nearby Nature associated with improved connection to Nature [PDF]

, 2015
As our interactions with nature occur increasingly within urban landscapes, there is a need to consider how ‘mundane nature’ can be valued as a route for people to connect to nature.
Hallam, Jenny, Lumber, Ryan, Richardson, Miles   +2 more
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BIOPHYLIA AND BIOPHYLIC DESIGN EFFECTS ON QUALITY OF LIFE

Agricultura, 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, Marcel Dîrja, Adelina Dumitraș   +2 more
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Resurrecting Gaia: harnessing the Free Energy Principle to preserve life as we know it

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
This paper applies the Free Energy Principle (FEP) to propose that the lack of action in response to the global ecological crisis should be considered a maladaptive symptom of human activity that we refer to as biophilia deficiency syndrome. The paper is
Caspar Montgomery, Inês Hipólito, Inês Hipólito   +2 more
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Esperanto, graphic archetypes, biophilia. Esperanto, archetipi grafici, biofilia [PDF]

, 2018
Oggi è diffusa l’idea che il linguaggio iconico sia quello dell’era informatica, basato su un simbolo dal significato decifrabile con immediatezza a livello globale, tassello di un mondo virtuale che ha definitivamente traghettato l’umanità sulle rive ...
Ruggero Lenci
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