Wildlife Gardening and Connectedness to Nature: Engaging the Unengaged
| Autor: | Amy Shaw, Geoff Wescott, Kelly K. Miller |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
business.industry
Social connectedness media_common.quotation_subject Environmental resource management Biodiversity Wildlife Environmental ethics Empathy jel:Q2 Urban wildlife Philosophy Connectedness to nature wildlife gardening urban conservation urban wildlife biodiversity conservation Urbanization jel:Q26 Sociology business Empirical evidence General Environmental Science Wildlife conservation media_common |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Values. 22:483-502 |
| ISSN: | 0963-2719 |
| DOI: | 10.3197/096327113x13690717320748 |
| Popis: | An often overlooked impact of urbanisation is a reduction in our ability to connect with nature in our daily lives. If people lose the ability to connect with nature we run the risk of creating a nature-disconnect, which is hypothesised to have an impact on our empathy for other species and our desire to help conservation efforts. Understanding how a sense of connection with nature can impact upon people's decisions to seek out nature in their daily lives is important if we wish to encourage the practice of wildlife gardening as a tool to enhance both urban biodiversity and connectedness to nature. This study targeted members of wildlife gardening programmes (n=261) and members of the general public (n=417) and provides empirical evidence that connectedness to nature is a primitive belief, but also shows that a strong sense of connection with nature is not a prerequisite for engaging in wildlife gardening. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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