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The Human–Nature Relationship and Its Impact on Health: A Critical Review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Within the past four decades, research has been increasingly drawn toward understanding whether there is a link between the changing human–nature relationship and its impact on people’s health.
Adger   +138 more
core   +3 more sources

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
doaj   +1 more source

Feeling Nature: Measuring perceptions of biophilia across global biomes using visual AI

open access: yesnpj Urban Sustainability
An increasing number of studies suggest that biophilia encompasses benefits resulting from human–nature interactions. However, quantifying these effects remains challenging.
Deborah C. Lefosse   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Biophilic design reframed. The theoretical basis for experimental research

open access: yesRi-vista: Ricerche per la Progettazione del Paesaggio
Biophilic Design is a design system based on Kellert and Wilson's Biophilia Hypothesis. Biophilia is literally ‘love for life’ – a feeling distinguished by the fascination evoked in human beings for Nature provoked by contact with Nature and by the ...
Giuseppe Barbiero
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Śrīmad Rājcandra’s Spiritual Biophilia from a Jain Perspective

open access: yesReligions
This interdisciplinary study expands the concept of biophilia by integrating a mystical dimension—spiritual biophilia—through an in depth exploration of biophilic themes in the works of modern Jain Ācārya Śrīmad Rājcandra.
Cogen Bohanec
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Biodiversity Loss and the Taxonomic Bottleneck: Emerging Biodiversity Science [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Human domination of the Earth has resulted in dramatic changes to global and local patterns of biodiversity. Biodiversity is critical to human sustainability because it drives the ecosystem services that provide the core of our life-support system. As we,
A Baldi   +103 more
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Biophilia and Social Work: Advancing Nature-based Health and Healing Perspectives in Social Work Practice and Education

open access: yesMolung Educational Frontier
The human connection with Nature is rooted in a symbiotic relationship that fosters harmony and balance. Humans have an innate need to be in contact with Nature, relying on it for essential resources such as food, shelter, medicines, and overall well ...
K. Karki, H. Siwakoti, J. Wood
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Embodied urban design: Fostering nature connectedness for pro‐conservation behaviour

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Those who feel more connected with nature are more likely to act in ways that support biodiversity. How connected people feel with nature depends in part on how meaningfully it figures into their experience of the built environment. Despite an increase in urban greening measures, these approaches often overlook how people perceive, interact ...
Shea McBride
wiley   +1 more source

Sensehacking the guest’s multisensory hotel experience

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
This narrative review discusses the literature on contemporary sensory marketing as it applies to hotel design. The role of each of the guest’s senses in the different stages of the customer journey are highlighted, and the functional benefits (to the ...
Charles Spence
doaj   +1 more source

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