Childhood nature connection and constructive hope: A review of research on connecting with nature and coping with environmental loss

L Chawla - People and Nature, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Within a generation, children's lives have largely moved indoors, with the loss of free‐
ranging exploration of the nearby natural world, even as research indicates that direct …

Human–nature connection: a multidisciplinary review

CD Ives, M Giusti, J Fischer, DJ Abson… - Current opinion in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Human–nature connections are receiving increasing attention in sustainability
science.•Relevant insights have been obtained in diverse disciplines, but integration is …

Leverage points for sustainability transformation

DJ Abson, J Fischer, J Leventon, J Newig… - Ambio, 2017 - Springer
Despite substantial focus on sustainability issues in both science and politics, humanity
remains on largely unsustainable development trajectories. Partly, this is due to the failure of …

Do people who feel connected to nature do more to protect it? A meta-analysis

CML Mackay, MT Schmitt - Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
Using meta-analysis, we examined whether there is evidence consistent with the idea that a
subjective sense of “connection to nature” promotes pro-environmental behaviour (PEB; …

Reconnecting with nature for sustainability

CD Ives, DJ Abson, H Von Wehrden, C Dorninger… - Sustainability …, 2018 - Springer
Calls for humanity to 'reconnect to nature'have grown increasingly louder from both scholars
and civil society. Yet, there is relatively little coherence about what reconnecting to nature …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change action as a project of identity: Eight meta-analyses

S Vesely, T Masson, P Chokrai, AM Becker… - Global Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Identity can improve our understanding of personal climate action, particularly when climate
action becomes an expression of a person's self. However, it is unclear which kind of self or …

Plant blindness and the implications for plant conservation

M Balding, KJH Williams - Conservation biology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Plant conservation initiatives lag behind and receive considerably less funding than animal
conservation projects. We explored a potential reason for this bias: a tendency among …

An urban ecology critique on the “Smart City” model

J Colding, S Barthel - Journal of cleaner production, 2017 - Elsevier
The aim of this letter is to raise some critical concerns and gaps in the booming literature on
Smart Cities; concerns that we think deserve greater attention from scientists, policy makers …

Doses of nearby nature simultaneously associated with multiple health benefits

DTC Cox, DF Shanahan, HL Hudson, RA Fuller… - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Exposure to nature provides a wide range of health benefits. A significant proportion of these
are delivered close to home, because this offers an immediate and easily accessible …

What predicts environmental activism? The roles of identification with nature and politicized environmental identity

MT Schmitt, CML Mackay, LM Droogendyk… - Journal of Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abundant evidence suggests that pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) is promoted by a
subjective sense of oneness with nature—what we conceptualize as “identification with …