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Applying the pathways to nature connectedness at a societal scale: a leverage points perspective
© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The climate emergency and crisis of biodiversity loss show that the humanânature relationship is failing. This paper introduces the psychological construct of nature connectedness as a measurable target for improving the humanânature relationship, and therefore helping tackle the warming climate and loss of wildlife. The âpathways to nature connectednessâ (sensory contact, emotion, meaning, beauty and compassion) provide an important and flexible framework to help improve the humanânature relationship. Research evidence and practical examples are given from organisations using the pathways (e.g. National Trust, Wildlife Trusts, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust). This illustrates how the pathways provide a new methodological approach for improving humanânature relationships. A systems perspective is taken to consider wider application of the pathways framework. The societal relevance of the pathways approach is proposed, and the application of nature connectedness is considered across a range of leverage points relevant across multiple societal scales (from individuals to societies). Recommendations are given for specific pathways informed interventions to improve the humanânature relationship. These interventions focus on cultural programmes and urban design to increase sensory, meaningful and emotional engagement with nature. The interventions based on the pathways framework engage with leverage points around system goals, design, feedback and parameters across policy areas such as education, health, housing, arts, health and transport. Showing to read This shows that the pathways to nature connectedness have a large scale of societal relevance and the potential to provide solutions across a range of leverage points to foster closer humanânature relationships across society
The double diversion: mapping its roots and projecting its future in environmental studies
Towards an ecosociology
This article offers insights from ecopsychology â which aims to place human behaviour back in the context of the natural world â to further the development of an ecosociology that meets Catton and Dunlapâs (1978) call for a paradigmatic shift in the way sociology views the role of nature in human society. A more ecocentric viewpoint, reincorporating direct experience, including the environment as part of being embodied, and extending the social to the more-than-human world, could offer new views on the nature of the social, what it is to be human, and wider issues of environmental sustainability. This would be a move towards a revitalized ecosociology that could help humanity come to terms with its unique, but not pre-eminent role in the global system
Ultra-hypofractionation in localized prostate cancer. 5-year results of the HYPO-RT-PC trial: Commentary I
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