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Biophilia in Italian preschool children: preliminary findings [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThis study investigated the relationship between biophilia, pro-environmental behaviors, and connectedness to nature in Italian preschool children. A total of 196 children (ages 24–65 months) and their parents participated.
Sabine Pirchio, Sara Costa
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Biophilia as Evolutionary Adaptation: An Onto- and Phylogenetic Framework for Biophilic Design
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Biophilia is a human personality trait described initially by Erich Fromm and later by E.O. Wilson, both of whom agree that biophilia has a biological basis and that it is fundamental to develop harmonious relationships between humans and the biosphere ...
Giuseppe Barbiero, Rita Berto
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Biophilia and Sustainable Museum Education Practices [PDF]
Museum & 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
Critical 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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, 2016 Visions for Sustainability, No 6 (2016): (in press)
Barbiero, Giuseppe, Marconato, Chiara
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Journal of Curriculum TheorizingFrom early childhood, picture books have captivated us with a spectrum of characters playing out plot lines in places both far and near. More specifically, many of these books, with their aesthetic and efferent elements of words and images, have come ...
Cynthia Marlene Morawski +1 more
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Frontiers in Conservation ScienceE.O. Wilson coined the term biophilia, defining it as an innate affinity to the natural world. The concept of nature connectedness is used in environmental psychology as a measure of feelings and self-perceptions of connectedness to nature.
Jason R. Kirkey
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Plants as Enrichment? The Effect of Live Plants on the Behavior and Welfare of Indoor-Housed Titi Monkeys (Plecturocebus cupreus). [PDF]
Am J PrimatolThis study tested whether coppery titi monkeys respond positively to plants like humans. The findings show that exposure to live plants reduced stereotypic behaviors, increased affiliative interactions—especially grooming—and attracted more visual attention, suggesting that plants may serve as effective enrichment for titi monkeys and reflect an ...
Bunting J +3 more
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Biophilia in interior design and its impact on achieving sustainability [PDF]
Journal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2022 : Nature was and still is the first human teacher that influences and drives an interior designer's imagination to use nature's models and systems in the interior design process.Recently, the interior designer turned to design that is compatible with ...
Shaimaa Eissa +2 more
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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 +4 more
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