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Nature, smells, and human wellbeing
The link between nature and human wellbeing is well established. However, few studies go beyond considering the visual and auditory underpinnings of this relationship, even though engaging with nature is a multisensory experience. While research linking smell to wellbeing exists, it focuses predomin...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9289359/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35849312 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-022-01760-w |
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author | Bentley, Phoebe R. Fisher, Jessica C. Dallimer, Martin Fish, Robert D. Austen, Gail E. Irvine, Katherine N. Davies, Zoe G. |
author_facet | Bentley, Phoebe R. Fisher, Jessica C. Dallimer, Martin Fish, Robert D. Austen, Gail E. Irvine, Katherine N. Davies, Zoe G. |
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description | The link between nature and human wellbeing is well established. However, few studies go beyond considering the visual and auditory underpinnings of this relationship, even though engaging with nature is a multisensory experience. While research linking smell to wellbeing exists, it focuses predominantly on smells as a source of nuisance/offence. Smells clearly have a prominent influence, but a significant knowledge gap remains in the nexus of nature, smell, and wellbeing. Here, we examine how smells experienced in woodlands contribute to wellbeing across four seasons. We show that smells are associated with multiple wellbeing domains, both positively and negatively. They are linked to memories, and specific ecological characteristics and processes over space/time. By making the link between the spatiotemporal variability in biodiversity and wellbeing explicit, we unearth a new line of enquiry. Overall, the multisensory experience must be considered by researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and planners looking to improve wellbeing through nature. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13280-022-01760-w. |
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spelling | pubmed-92893592022-07-18 Nature, smells, and human wellbeing Bentley, Phoebe R. Fisher, Jessica C. Dallimer, Martin Fish, Robert D. Austen, Gail E. Irvine, Katherine N. Davies, Zoe G. Ambio Research Article The link between nature and human wellbeing is well established. However, few studies go beyond considering the visual and auditory underpinnings of this relationship, even though engaging with nature is a multisensory experience. While research linking smell to wellbeing exists, it focuses predominantly on smells as a source of nuisance/offence. Smells clearly have a prominent influence, but a significant knowledge gap remains in the nexus of nature, smell, and wellbeing. Here, we examine how smells experienced in woodlands contribute to wellbeing across four seasons. We show that smells are associated with multiple wellbeing domains, both positively and negatively. They are linked to memories, and specific ecological characteristics and processes over space/time. By making the link between the spatiotemporal variability in biodiversity and wellbeing explicit, we unearth a new line of enquiry. Overall, the multisensory experience must be considered by researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and planners looking to improve wellbeing through nature. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13280-022-01760-w. Springer Netherlands 2022-07-18 2023-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9289359/ /pubmed/35849312 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-022-01760-w Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Research Article Bentley, Phoebe R. Fisher, Jessica C. Dallimer, Martin Fish, Robert D. Austen, Gail E. Irvine, Katherine N. Davies, Zoe G. Nature, smells, and human wellbeing |
title | Nature, smells, and human wellbeing |
title_full | Nature, smells, and human wellbeing |
title_fullStr | Nature, smells, and human wellbeing |
title_full_unstemmed | Nature, smells, and human wellbeing |
title_short | Nature, smells, and human wellbeing |
title_sort | nature, smells, and human wellbeing |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9289359/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35849312 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-022-01760-w |
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