Beyond knowing nature: Contact, emotion, compassion, meaning, and beauty are pathways to nature connection.
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. However the specific routes to nature connectedness have not been examined system...
Main Authors: | Ryan Lumber, Miles Richardson, David Sheffield |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2017-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5423657?pdf=render |
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