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"Otter this world": can a mobile application promote children's connectedness to nature?

International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2020
Can a mobile application encourage children to spend more time outdoors and promote their connectedness to nature? In this paper, we present results from a three-week experimental deployment study of NatureCollections, a mobile application that allows ...
Saba Kawas, Nicole S. Kuhn, Mina Tari, Alexis Hiniker, K. Davis   +4 more
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Saving Mr. Nature: Anthropomorphism enhances connectedness to and protectiveness toward nature

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2013
Abstract Nature is often anthropomorphized in the environmental discourse. However, whether anthropomorphism of nature has any impact on the way people relate to and behave toward nature has rarely been examined. With three experiments, the present research addresses this issue. It shows that in general anthropomorphism of nature fosters conservation
Tam, Kim-Pong, Lee, Sau-Lai, Chao, Melody Manchi   +2 more
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Fourth graders’ connectedness to nature - Does cultural background matter?

Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2019
Abstract Many refugees have entered European classrooms recently, making the classrooms culturally heterogeneous. Some key challenges in the future include productively dealing with different cultures within a country that may have different relationships to nature while still promoting Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).
Fränkel, Silvia, Sellmann-Risse, Daniela, Basten, Melanie   +2 more
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National forest park visitors’ connectedness to nature and pro-environmental behavior: The effects of cultural ecosystem service, place and event attachment

Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 2023
Hongmei Zhang, L. Cai, B. Bai, Yijiang Yang, Jinhui Zhang   +4 more
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Mindfulness and connectedness to nature: A meta-analytic investigation

Personality and Individual Differences, 2018
Abstract The traits of mindfulness and connectedness to nature may have a reciprocal relationship. Mindfulness, which consists of non-evaluative awareness, may allow individuals to feel more connected to nature, and connection to natural environments may help foster mindfulness.
Nicola S. Schutte, John M. Malouff
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Nature-based recreation associated with connectedness to nature and leisure satisfaction among students in Brazil

Leisure Studies, 2019
There is growing evidence that nature-based recreation (NBR) during childhood promotes connectedness to nature, which in turn fuels NBR during adulthood.
Claudio D. Rosa, Silvia Collado, C. Profice, Lincoln R. Larson   +3 more
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Effects of social and personal norms, and connectedness to nature, on pro-environmental behavior: A study of Western Australian protected area visitors

Tourism Management Perspectives, 2022
J. Pearce, S. Huang, R. Dowling, Amanda J. Smith   +3 more
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Connectedness to nature and its relationship with spirituality, wellbeing and sustainable behaviour (Conectividad con la naturaleza y su relación con la espiritualidad, el bienestar y la conducta sustentable)

Psyecology, 2019
This study examines the relationship between connectedness to nature, spirituality, wellbeing and sustainable behaviour in two different cultural contexts: the cities of Nantes, France, and Hermosillo, Mexico.
Oscar Navarro, César-Octavio Tapia-Fonllem, Blanca Fraijo-Sing, Nicolas Roussiau, Anais Ortiz-Valdez, Mary Guillard, Inga Wittenberg, Ghozlane Fleury-Bahi   +7 more
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From street trees to natural areas: retrofitting cities for human connectedness to nature

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2018
This research is a response to a call for concern over a human–nature disconnect due to urban form that ignores, rather than embraces, nature and natural processes.
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Wildlife Gardening and Connectedness to Nature: Engaging the Unengaged

Environmental Values, 2013
An often overlooked impact of urbanisation is a reduction in our ability to connect with nature in our daily lives. If people lose the ability to connect with nature we run the risk of creating a nature-disconnect, which is hypothesised to have an impact on our empathy for other species and our desire to help conservation efforts.
Amy Shaw, Kelly Miller, Geoff Westcott
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