Nature connection through film

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-121
Author(s):  
Andreas Breden
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
Connection To Nature ◽  
Nature Connection

These notes accompany two films that I have made. They are an attempt to punctuate why my connection to nature is so important to me and try to find a way to share this. I write attempt because I believe that we as human beings are ever-evolving, ever-revealing and ever-growing, and so is our relationship and connection to nature. It’s not a circular movement, but more like a spiraling one which adds one more dimension. We come back to places that are familiar but slightly different.  What can we co-learn from lighting a campfire?  https://youtu.be/NyBPVkhQjOY Following a stream towards the sea  https://youtu.be/r7W7vF2dqzI

scholarly journals Measuring Connection to Nature—A Illustrated Extension of the Inclusion of Nature in Self Scale

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1761
Author(s):  
Matthias Winfried Kleespies ◽  
Tina Braun ◽  
Paul Wilhelm Dierkes ◽  
Volker Wenzel
Keyword(s):  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Conservation Education ◽  
Measuring Instruments ◽  
Connection To Nature ◽  
Nature Connection ◽  
Cognitive Limitations ◽  
New Instrument ◽  
Actual Target ◽  
Similar Accuracy

The human-nature connection is an important factor that is frequently the subject of environmental education research and environmental psychology. Therefore, over the years, numerous measuring instruments have been established to quantitatively record a person’s connection to nature. However, there is no instrument specifically for children with cognitive limitations. For this reason, in this study, an established scale for connection to nature, the inclusion of nature in self scale (INS), was modified especially for the needs of this group. Study 1 investigated what students understand by the term “nature” in order to create an illustrated version of the INS. In study 2, the new instrument was tested on university students and compared with the original INS and the connectedness to nature scale (CNS). No significant differences between the original INS and the new developed scale were found (p = 0.247), from which it can be concluded that the illustrated INS (IINS) measures the connection to nature with similar accuracy as the original INS. In study 3, the instrument was tested together with other established nature connection instruments on the actual target group, students with disabilities. The correlation between the IINS, the CNS, and nature connectedness scale (NR) were in accordance with the expected literature values (rIINS-CNS = 0.570 & rIINS-NR = 0.605). The results of this study also prove effectiveness of the developed illustrated scale. This research thus provides a suitable measuring instrument for people with learning difficulties and can make a contribution to the investigation of human-nature connections and conservation education.

scholarly journals Identification of Architectural Components Affecting the Development of Knowledge and Gaining Experience from Nature (Case Study of Design and Construction of Educational-Cultural Complex)

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 6064-6083
Author(s):  
Sara Jafari ◽  
Seyedeh Mahsa Shayesteh Sadeghian
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Environmental Literacy ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Connection To Nature ◽  
Cultural Complex ◽  
Green Architecture ◽  
Library Studies

The present age is the time for increasing environmental awareness and paying attention to the role of human connection with nature which can improve the quality of human life as well as preserving nature. Many factors contribute to the success of environmental projects, programs and the conservation of natural resources. Manpower is one of the most important ones and given the effect of human beings on their environment, in general, one of the most important measures to solve environmental problems is the development of natural resources and the promotion of public culture in this field, which, in turn, requires education about man's connection to nature and the environment. Therefore, the objective of this research is to identify the components affecting design in order to develop awareness and gain experience from nature. The present project is an educational-cultural complex with the approach of developing awareness and gaining experience from nature, which is formed with the aim of fulfilling two main missions: 1. Sensitizing people to nature and finding a view seeking the meaning of nature and natural phenomena 2. Raising the level of environmental literacy of people through education and preventing the indiscriminate destruction of the environment. This descriptive-analytical study addresses issues such as identifying design components in order to develop knowledge and gain experience from nature, investigating the relationship between humans and nature using the observation technique, field and library studies, methods of promoting and teaching environmental issues, sustainable architecture and green architecture, design bed studies, how the project is formed and the presentation of the physical plan. As a result, after identifying design components in order to develop knowledge and gain experience from nature, we achieve the necessity to build a cultural-educational complex in line with the research objective, and also the results show that environmental awareness and education have a direct and indirect effect on urban livability components of sustainability.

The Dirty/Earthy Mother

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-41
Author(s):  
Jane Caputi
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
Connection To Nature ◽  
Mother Nature ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
White Earth

This chapter explores the ways that undoing the Anthropocene means rejecting misogynist and biophobic meanings of Mother Nature-Earth and reclaiming much of what has been made obscene and “dirty.” This includes reclaiming the word cunt and cultivating a “dirty mind,” able to see through oppressive hierarchical dualisms. The Anthropocene manifests Man’s attempted mutilation and rape-murder of Earth. It relies on a fusion of sex and violence as well as an invidious dualism that falsely opposes nature and culture, soil and spirit, dirty and clean, black and white, earth and sky, female and male. Refusing this artificial opposition, Nature-Earth appears as the active and autonomous “Mutha’,” one who thinks, who decides, who gives, who takes, who comes, and who also can go. Human beings have long invoked Nature-Earth as “Mother,” not only to recognize our dependence on and connection to Nature-Earth, but also, perhaps, to remind Nature-Earth of their relationship to us.

scholarly journals Health and Wellbeing Benefits from Nature Experiences in Tropical Settings Depend on Strength of Connection to Nature

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (19) ◽  
pp. 10149
Author(s):  
Rachel Oh ◽  
Kelly Fielding ◽  
Chia-Chen Chang ◽  
Le Nghiem ◽  
Claudia Tan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
High Blood Pressure ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
Connection To Nature ◽  
Dose Frequency ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Nature Connection ◽  
The Relationship

A growing number of policies and programmes in cities aim to increase the time people spend in nature for the health and wellbeing benefits delivered by such interactions. Yet, there is little research investigating the extent to which, and for whom, nature experiences deliver such benefits outside Europe, North America, and Australia. Here, we assessed the relationships between nature dose (frequency, duration, and intensity) and three mental wellbeing (depression, stress, and anxiety) and two physical health (high blood pressure, diabetes) outcomes in Singapore, an intensely urbanised tropical city. Our analyses accounted for individual factors, including socio-economic status, nature connection (nature relatedness), and whether people with poor health are prevented by their condition from visiting green spaces. Our results show that the association between nature dose (specifically duration) and mental wellbeing is moderated by a nature connection. Specifically, people with a stronger nature connection were less likely to be depressed, stressed, and anxious, regardless of the duration of their nature dose. For those with a weaker connection to nature, spending longer in nature was associated with being more depressed, stressed, and anxious. We did not find a relationship between nature dose and high blood pressure or diabetes. Our results highlight that the relationship between nature dose and wellbeing might vary substantially among cities.

scholarly journals Nature’s Involvement in Women’s Self-Completion: An Eco-feminist and Psychoanalytic Criticism on Selected Indonesian Folktales

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 561-577
Author(s):  
Santa Maya Pramusita ◽  
Antonius Wisnu Yoga Windharto
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Connection To Nature ◽  
Completion Process ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Problem Formulations ◽  
Mother Earth ◽  
As If

Human beings unavoidably have an innate need to conjugate with other living creatures such as plants and animals. This fundamentally indicates that human builds a sense of connection to nature, that even sometimes they involve nature as one of the symbols in their process of self-completion. They make use of nature in such a way to define themselves as if they possess competencies in accordance with the titles. This paper seeks to find out the depiction of nature in several Indonesian folktales and to disclose how women in those tales are naturally connected with nature and engage it in their self-completion process. Psychological and feminist eco-critical approaches are utilized to answer those problem formulations. Meanwhile, the reason why the researchers only analyze female characters is that they are told in the tales to have an intimate relationship with nature and become the representation of ‘Mother Earth’. The analysis results show that nature in the selected folktales is depicted as pretty chummy to oppressed women. They are so connected that even those women establish nature as their medium to reveal their self-concept as strong, consistent, and honest women

scholarly journals Nature Connection in Early Childhood: A Quantitative Cross-Sectional Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexia Barrable ◽  
David Booth
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Connection To Nature ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Nature Connection ◽  
Outdoor Nursery ◽  
Individual Dimension

There have been calls to reconnect children with nature, both for their own wellbeing, as well as for ecological sustainability. This has driven the growth of outdoor and nature-schools for all ages, but especially in the early childhood education sector. However, to date, there has not been a quantitative study that looks at whether these settings actually promote nature connection. This paper aims to examine the role of nature nurseries in the promotion of connection to nature, when compared to traditional nurseries. Data were collected on the nature connection, using the Connection to Nature Index for Parents of Preschool Children, of 216 children aged 1–8 years, 132 of whom attended nature nurseries while the rest attended traditional nurseries. Duration and frequency of attendance, sex, and parental nature connection were also reported. Statistical analyses were conducted for overall nature connection scores, individual dimension sub-scores and, for the children who attended nature nursery, against predictors. Results indicate that attending a nature nursery is associated with higher nature connection. Predictors for children’s connection to nature were parental nature connection, and total time spent in attendance of an outdoor nursery. This suggests a dose-response style relationship between attendance and nature connection. Implications for real-life applications are put forward and further research directions are explored.

Impact of Wooden Versus Nonwooden Interior Designs on Office Workers’ Cognitive Performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingyun Shen ◽  
Xi Zhang ◽  
Zhiwei Lian
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Continuous Operation ◽  
Office Workers ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Connection To Nature ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Visual Reaction ◽  
Occupant Satisfaction ◽  
Completion Times

The biophilic hypothesis states that human beings have an innate connection to nature. Accordingly, previous studies have shown that natural interior design elements may influence the occupants’ cognitive performance. This study investigated the effect of wooden elements on the occupant preference and cognitive performance of 20 adults (10 females and 10 males). Participants reported increased attention and productivity in wooden rooms versus a nonwooden room and were more likely to choose one of several wooden rooms over a concrete room as their preferred work environment. Participants also performed better on neurobehavioral tests in the wooden versus nonwooden environment. Participants’ average completion times decreased on average by 16 seconds, 5 seconds, 6 seconds, 16 seconds, and 7 seconds, respectively, for tests of Visual Reaction, Continuous Operation, Stroop, Calculation, and Meaningless Picture Recognition tests in the wooden versus concrete environments. On all five tests, participants gave more correct answers in the three wooden settings than in the concrete one. These results support the biophilic hypothesis; incorporating wooden elements into interior design may improve both occupant satisfaction and cognitive performance.

Nature Connection and 360-Degree Video: An Exploratory Study With Immersive Technology

2021 ◽  
pp. 105382592110015
Author(s):  
John C. Sneed ◽  
S. Anthony Deringer ◽  
Adam Hanley
Keyword(s):  
Pairwise Comparisons ◽  
State University ◽  
Connection To Nature ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Head Mounted Display ◽  
Nature Connection ◽  
Nature Preserve ◽  
State Dependent ◽  
Nature Relatedness Scale ◽  
Nature Experience

Background: Immersive technologies may be an avenue to explore the construct of human–nature connection more thoroughly and without some of the obstacles to accessing nature in-person. Purpose: The aim of this project was to discover if self-exposure to immersive virtual nature can lead to any change in nature connectedness. Methodology/Approach: Participants were recruited from the Texas State University campus and randomized into three experimental conditions: a filmed library or nature experience, and an in-nature experience. 360-degree videos of a nature preserve and the university library were projected within a head-mounted display in a laboratory setting. Results of pre- and postsurvey data were compared between experimental groups. Findings/Conclusions: Pairwise comparisons with the Nature Relatedness Scale indicated that participants in the in-nature experience reported significantly stronger beliefs about their connection to nature than those in either virtual condition. With respect to the State of Independence with Nature Scale, planned pairwise comparisons indicated that between participants in the in-nature experience and the virtual nature experience did not differ. Implications: This study suggests that to connect with nature, one should spend time there. In addition, here data support that a virtual immersive nature experience can affect a state-dependent measurement of nature connection, and even equal that of an in-nature experience.

Rate of Absorption of Water from Stomach and Small Bowel of Human Beings

1954 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 565-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Scholer ◽  
Charles F. Code
Keyword(s):  
Small Bowel ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Rate Of Absorption

A Study of the Action of Prostigmine on the Bowel of Human Beings

1949 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 970-977 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. McMahon ◽  
Charles F. Code ◽  
Willtam G. Saver ◽  
J. Arnold Bargen
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings
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