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Wildlife gardening and connectedness to nature: Engaging the unengaged

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posted on 2024-06-02, 13:11 authored by A Shaw, Kelly MillerKelly Miller, G Wescott
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.

History

Journal

Environmental Values

Volume

22

Pagination

483-502

Location

Cambridge, England

ISSN

0963-2719

eISSN

1752-7015

Language

English

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2013, White Horse Press

Issue

4

Publisher

WHITE HORSE PRESS