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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Despite increasing emphasis on youth contact with nature and associated benefits, research has not examined the direct relationship between adolescents' nature-based experiences and holistic measures of positive youth development (PYD). This gap may stem
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Connecting with the natural world [PDF]
Current Biology, 2014 SummaryToday’s technology, from smartphones to drones, provides researchers and conservation workers with many new and improved ways of observing and protecting wildlife. Michael Gross reports.
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Understanding the lived experience of connection to nature
Conservation Science and Practice, 2021 There are multiple theoretical understandings of connection to nature. Often, scholars define a connection to nature as being the outcome of a process of awakening “biophilia.” They may also define it as the maturation or development of an “ecological ...
Ella Furness
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Conservation Letters, 2023 Human activities are damaging the world's ecosystems, posing a serious threat to life on Earth, including humanity. To address this situation, widespread and significant changes in human behavior are necessary.
Masashi Soga, Kevin J. Gaston
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Improving Assessments of Connection to Nature: A Participatory Approach
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Experiences in nature benefit humans in a variety of ways, including increasing health and well-being, reducing stress, inspiring creativity, enhancing learning, and fostering environmental stewardship values.
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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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On naturality of some construction of connections
Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Sklodowska, sectio A – Mathematica, 2020 Let \(F\) be a bundle functor on the category of all fibred manifolds and fibred maps. Let \(\Gamma\) be a general connection in a fibred manifold \(\mathrm{pr}:Y\to M\) and \(\nabla\) be a classical linear connection on \(M\). We prove that the well-known general connection \(\mathcal{F}(\Gamma,\nabla)\) in \(FY\to M\) is canonical with respect to ...
Kurek, Jan (matematyk) +1 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.
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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 ...
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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
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