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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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Elements of Biophilic Design Increase Visual Attention in Preschoolers
Buildings, 2023 Biophilic design increases attention among adults, but little is known about the influence of biophilic design on attention in childhood. We assessed visual attention in 4–5-year-old children as a function of high and low degrees of biophilic design.
Roberta Fadda +3 more
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Śrīmad Rājcandra’s Spiritual Biophilia from a Jain Perspective
ReligionsThis 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
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Eco-psychotherapy for the Revitalization of Psyche: Eco-psychological Reading of Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones [PDF]
مطالعات بینرشتهای ادبیات، هنر و علوم انسانیThe 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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Can Suboptimal Visual Environments Negatively Affect Children’s Cognitive Development?
Challenges, 2021 There are indications that children born during the period of COVID-19 lockdown have cognitive development issues, without having been affected by the virus. We discuss here the idea that environmental deprivation—and, especially, the lack of appropriate
Alexandros A. Lavdas +1 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Participants in environmental education programmes can have different preexisting attitudes and experiences that could influence the educational outcomes. The present study focuses on zoo education and its goal of connecting people to nature.
Viktoria Feucht +20 more
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Responsible biophilia for zoonosis prevention through a cultural lens
Frontiers in Conservation ScienceHuman affinity for nature (“biophilia”) brings substantial health and ecological benefits and fosters environmental stewardship. However, close human-nature interactions can lead to conservation challenges and increase the risk of zoonoses.
Hongying Li
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Urgent Biophilia: Human-Nature Interactions and Biological Attractions in Disaster Resilience
Ecology and Society, 2012 This contribution builds upon contemporary work on principles of biological attraction as well as earlier work on biophilia while synthesizing literatures on restorative environments, community-based ecological restoration, and both community and social ...
Keith G. Tidball
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Botanic and heritage gardens as living laboratories in the age of the polycrisis
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Societal Impact Statement Cities face intertwined crises of climate, biodiversity loss and social disconnection. We show how botanic and heritage gardens can help address these challenges as living laboratories to generate place‐based evidence and public engagement.
Kevin Frediani
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Biophilia as the Main Design Question in Architectural Design Studio Teaching
Megaron, 2018 The reflection of biophilia, a concept coming from the disciplines of psychology and philosophy, in architecture emphasizes the connection between a building and nature as the main input of architectural design.
Kutlu Sevinç Kayıhan +2 more
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