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Reconnecting with nature for sustainability
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 means, why it should happen and how it can be achieved. We present a conceptual framework to organise existing...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6132401/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30220917 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0542-9 |
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author | Ives, Christopher D. Abson, David J. von Wehrden, Henrik Dorninger, Christian Klaniecki, Kathleen Fischer, Joern |
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description | 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 means, why it should happen and how it can be achieved. We present a conceptual framework to organise existing literature and direct future research on human–nature connections. Five types of connections to nature are identified: material, experiential, cognitive, emotional, and philosophical. These various types have been presented as causes, consequences, or treatments of social and environmental problems. From this conceptual base, we discuss how reconnecting people with nature can function as a treatment for the global environmental crisis. Adopting a social–ecological systems perspective, we draw upon the emerging concept of ‘leverage points’—places in complex systems to intervene to generate change—and explore examples of how actions to reconnect people with nature can help transform society towards sustainability. |
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spelling | pubmed-61324012018-09-14 Reconnecting with nature for sustainability Ives, Christopher D. Abson, David J. von Wehrden, Henrik Dorninger, Christian Klaniecki, Kathleen Fischer, Joern Sustain Sci Original Article 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 means, why it should happen and how it can be achieved. We present a conceptual framework to organise existing literature and direct future research on human–nature connections. Five types of connections to nature are identified: material, experiential, cognitive, emotional, and philosophical. These various types have been presented as causes, consequences, or treatments of social and environmental problems. From this conceptual base, we discuss how reconnecting people with nature can function as a treatment for the global environmental crisis. Adopting a social–ecological systems perspective, we draw upon the emerging concept of ‘leverage points’—places in complex systems to intervene to generate change—and explore examples of how actions to reconnect people with nature can help transform society towards sustainability. Springer Japan 2018-02-28 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6132401/ /pubmed/30220917 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0542-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Ives, Christopher D. Abson, David J. von Wehrden, Henrik Dorninger, Christian Klaniecki, Kathleen Fischer, Joern Reconnecting with nature for sustainability |
title | Reconnecting with nature for sustainability |
title_full | Reconnecting with nature for sustainability |
title_fullStr | Reconnecting with nature for sustainability |
title_full_unstemmed | Reconnecting with nature for sustainability |
title_short | Reconnecting with nature for sustainability |
title_sort | reconnecting with nature for sustainability |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6132401/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30220917 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0542-9 |
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