Parks are important places to listen to natural sounds and avoid human-related noise, an
increasingly rare combination. We first explore whether and to what degree natural sounds …

The ability for urban ecosystems to deliver provisioning, regulating, cultural, and supporting
services is vital for the health, sustainability, and resilience of urban environments. The …

Acoustic experiences of nature represent a growing area in restorative environments
research and are explored in this narrative literature review. First, the work surveyed …

Mounting evidence demonstrates that nature exposure can have affective benefits. These
include behavioral and psychophysiological responses consistent with (a) decreases in …

Anthropogenic noise is a pervasive pollutant that decreases environmental quality by
disrupting a suite of behaviors vital to perception and communication. However, even within …

Spending time in nature is known to benefit human health and well-being, but evidence is
mixed as to whether biodiversity or perceptions of biodiversity contribute to these benefits …

Natural sounds, and bird song in particular, play a key role in building and maintaining our
connection with nature, but widespread declines in bird populations mean that the acoustic …

The conflict over many decades between human resource needs and the environment has
led to increasingly prominent ecological and environmental problems in the Qilian …

The past two decades have seen an ongoing paradigm shift from noise control to
soundscaping, and soundscape approaches have been applied in noise management …

In landscape planning and policy-making, environmental sounds have only negative
impacts on human health. The natural sounds that promote healthy and supportive …