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Mindfulness-based Connection to Nature as a tool to Improve Perceived Stress and Connection to Nature [PDF]
, 2021 Background: Those living in areas of deprivation often experience health inequalities, have poorer health outcomes and less access to greenspace within their local environments. Having access to and engaging with nature and greenspace have been found to provide beneficial impacts to stress, mental health, and wellbeing.
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Connecting children to nature with technology [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Interaction design and children, 2014 Regular interactions with nature are vital for the development and wellbeing of children and also to build attachment and value for natural environments that potentially promote proenvironmental behaviour in later life. In this paper, we report on a study designed to identify opportunities for digital technology to support children's connectedness to ...
Bronwyn J. Cumbo +3 more
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A post from the woods: Social media, well-being and our connection to the natural world
Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 2022 Research on our connection to nature (CTN) and sense of well-being has gained increased attention in recent years. It is often argued that CTN is an important, yet diminishing, human need, especially when juxtaposed with our increased time spent with ...
Mark A. Flynn +2 more
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Beyond knowing nature: Contact, emotion, compassion, meaning, and beauty are pathways to nature connection. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Feeling connected to nature has been shown to be beneficial to wellbeing and pro-environmental behaviour. General nature contact and knowledge based activities are often used in an attempt to engage people with nature.
Ryan Lumber +2 more
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Nature Connection: Providing a Pathway from Personal to Planetary Health
Challenges, 2023 The vast and growing challenges for human health and all life on Earth require urgent and deep structural changes to the way in which we live. Broken relationships with nature are at the core of both the modern health crisis and the erosion of planetary ...
John Zelenski +4 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2022 An understanding of both cognitive and affective domains of learning is critical to promoting undergraduate student success in biology. Field courses—which support student learning, observation, and experimentation in the outdoors—have been shown to be ...
Kira A. Treibergs +4 more
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Connection to nature is associated with social-emotional learning of children
Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 2023 When assessing the link between nature exposure and social-emotional or proximal outcomes of children, few studies have included the psychological connection to nature as a mediating variable.
Kevin Lanza +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This cross-sectional study aims to improve our understanding of the psychological pathways behind the commonly reported link between experiences in nature and pro-environmentalism. Particularly, we explore whether nature experiences lead to self-reported
Claudio D. Rosa +2 more
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Natural Products Version 2.0: Connecting Genes to Molecules [PDF]
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010 Natural products have played a prominent role in the history of organic chemistry, and they continue to be important as drugs, biological probes, and targets of study for synthetic and analytical chemists. In this Perspective, we explore how connecting Nature's small molecules to the genes that encode them has sparked a renaissance in natural product ...
Christopher T, Walsh +1 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 There is empirical evidence suggesting a positive link between direct experiences in nature and people’s environmental attitudes (EA) and behaviors (EB). This has led researchers to encourage more frequent contact with nature, especially during childhood,
Claudio D. Rosa, Silvia Collado
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