Countryside within the City: A Motivating Vision behind Civic Green Area Stewardship in Warsaw, Poland

Sanecka, Joanna; Barthel, Stephan; Colding, Johan

doi:10.3390/su12062313

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“…Additionally, HNC-learning cannot solely be achieved through the creation of more spatially accessible natural environments in cities, but needs to be circumscribed by property rights that allow institutional accessibility for people to physically engage with natural environments. It has been argued that people acquire positive attitudes toward an attitudinal object because of what they do behaviorally, as opposed to the opposite assumption that people behave in certain ways because they like it [101,135]. There are also limits to achieving HNC in cities, as presumptive sentiments toward nature not always are positive.…”

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“…UGCs can be viewed as the urban analogues to the local commons that can be found in rural settings and in traditional societies, where common-property systems are plentiful [98][99][100]. In contrast to stewards of rural commons, people managing resources in urban green commons do not depend on these for their daily livelihood, but partake in UGCs for a number of reasons, such as having an interest to learn about gardening, having contact with nature, to socialize and for keeping up intra-cultural identities [101][102][103].…”

Section: Collective Action Arenas and Psychomotor Environmental Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Enabling Relationships with Nature in Cities

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Limited exposure to direct nature experiences is a worrying sign of urbanization, particularly for children. Experiencing nature during childhood shapes aspects of a personal relationship with nature, crucial for sustainable decision-making processes in adulthood. Scholars often stress the need to ‘reconnect’ urban dwellers with nature; however, few elaborate on how this can be achieved. Here, we argue that nature reconnection requires urban ecosystems, with a capacity to enable environmental learning in the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains, i.e., learning that occurs in the head, heart and hands of individuals. Drawing on environmental psychology, urban ecology, institutional analysis and urban planning, we present a theoretical framework for Human–Nature Connection (HNC), discuss the importance of nurturing HNC for children, elaborate on the role of property-rights and the importance of creating collective action arenas in cities for the promotion of urban resilience building. As values and environmental preconceptions underly environmental behavior, there are limits to achieving HNC in cities, as presumptive sentiments toward nature not always are positive. We end by discussing the role of new digital technologies in relation to HNC, and conclude by summarizing the major points brought forward herein, offering policy recommendations for HNC as a resilience strategy that can be adopted in cities throughout the world.

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“…Social–ecological systems research could address the issue of how to promote a co-evolution between PEH and environmentally conscious identities, especially among urban residents that are often psychologically disconnected from the Biosphere (Colding et al 2020 ; Giusti et al 2020 ). For instance, the research on urban stewardship may find novel empirical avenues on how habits and routines around actively caring for local ecosystems and species may co-evolve with intrinsic motivation (Andersson et al 2017 ; Sanecka et al 2020 ).…”

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Pro-environmental habits: An underexplored research agenda in sustainability science

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Habits are the fundamental basis for many of our daily actions and can be powerful barriers to behavioural change. Still, habits are not included in most narratives, theories, and interventions applied to sustainable behaviour. One reason societies struggle to reach policy goals and people fail to change towards more pro-environmental lifestyles might be that many behaviours are now bound by strong habits that override knowledge and intentions to act. In this perspective article, we provide three arguments for why pro-environmental habits are a needed research agenda in sustainability science: (1) habit theory highlights how behaviour is heavily reliant on automatic processes, (2) the environmental context sets boundary conditions for behaviour, shape habits, and cues action responses, and (3) our habits and past behaviour shape our values and self-identity. These arguments highlight the transformative potential of looking at sustainable behaviours through a habit lens. We believe a research agenda on pro-environmental habits could generate a more holistic understanding of sustainable behaviours and complement today’s dominating approaches which emphasize reasoned decisions and intrinsic motivations such as values, norms, and intentions to understand and predict pro-environmental behaviour. We highlight evident knowledge gaps and practical benefits of considering habit theory to promote pro-environmental behaviours, and how habit architecture could be utilized as a strong leverage point when designing, modifying, and building urban environments.

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“…The results also indicated that place of residence significantly influenced the level of sense of place, and students who lived in the suburbs had a higher level of sense of place, which is consistent with the results of other similar studies where place of residence was considered as a factor influencing individuals’ level of sense of place ( Lim and Barton, 2010 ). For example, the natural environment of the suburbs can inspire stronger place attachment ( Sanecka et al, 2020 ).…”

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The mediating effect of geospatial thinking on the relationship between family capital and sense of place

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Few studies have examined how family capital affects the sense of place, and the effect of spatial thinking on the relationship between the two is unclear. This study constructs a mediation model to examine the impact of family capital on sense of place and the mediation effect of geospatial thinking. A total of 1,004 upper-secondary-school students were surveyed using the Family Capital Questionnaire, the Geospatial Thinking Test, and the Sense of Place Scale. The correlation analysis showed that family capital has a positive effect on both sense of place and geospatial thinking. Moreover, there is also a significant positive correlation between geospatial thinking and sense of place. The results of mediation analysis indicated that geospatial thinking plays mediating and buffering roles in the relationship between family capital and sense of place after controlling for gender and residential address. The direct and indirect effects accounted for 73.31 and 26.69% of the total effect, respectively. Specifically, family capital is a significant positive predictor of both sense of place and geospatial thinking, and geospatial thinking partially mediates the relationship between family capital and sense of place. Students from better family backgrounds are more likely to have a better geospatial thinking and sense of place, as well as geospatial thinking promotes the development of a sense of place. Therefore, both family capital and geospatial thinking should be considered when we want to examine and develop individuals’ level of sense of place.

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Countryside within the City: A Motivating Vision behind Civic Green Area Stewardship in Warsaw, Poland

Cited by 12 publications

References 51 publications

Enabling Relationships with Nature in Cities

Enabling Relationships with Nature in Cities

Pro-environmental habits: An underexplored research agenda in sustainability science

The mediating effect of geospatial thinking on the relationship between family capital and sense of place

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