Imagining an Everyday Nature

Hess, Scott

doi:10.1093/isle/isp152

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“…While our focus was forest biodiversity, everyday encounters (e.g., in gardens or parks) were central to participant preferences and perspectives. This highlights that nature is more than a “place we go” and needs to be better recognized as a part of people's everyday life (Hess, 2010). Furthermore, the influences of memories, experiences, media, and cultural influences were strong, with some participants comparing their own perspectives against what they believe to be a social norm.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The diversity of people's relationships with biodiversity should inform forest restoration and creation

Austen

Dallimer

Irvine

et al. 2022

Conservation Letters.

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Forest restoration/creation is a policy focus worldwide, with initiatives pledging to plant billions of trees. While there is an emphasis on providing “the right tree in the right place,” we need to understand for whom the trees are right. Such social dimensions are frequently overlooked, despite being critical to successful forest restoration/creation. We used Q‐methodology to examine what forest biodiversity attributes (e.g., functions, behaviors, colors, smells) people (N = 194) relate to and how in Britain. We found that shared public perspectives on biodiversity attributes are multifaceted, influenced by personal experience and vary across taxa. This heterogeneity highlights the importance of gaining a richer understanding of human–nature relationships, as restoration/creation initiatives need to deliver biodiverse forests to accommodate the plurality of preferences brought to bear upon them. Based on our findings, emphasizing biodiversity in forest restoration/creation should contribute to greater use of, comfort in, and meaningful engagement with, forests in the future by a wider set of publics.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The diversity of people's relationships with biodiversity should inform forest restoration and creation

Austen

Dallimer

Irvine

et al. 2022

Conservation Letters.

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“…(continued) Ordinary or less charismatic nature risks being overlooked (Doremus 2001;Hess 2010;Lorimer 2006Lorimer , 2007. This may lead to conservationists concentrating on finding rare or protected species to halt projects (Nygren, 2013), but detecting their presences is not easy (e.g., Nygren and Jokinen 2013;Nygren and Peltola 2020;Peltola and Tuomisaari 2015).…”

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Offsetting Game—Framing Environmental Issues in the Design of a Serious Game

Nygren

Kankainen

Brunet

2022

Simulation & Gaming

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Background Biodiversity crisis requires researchers to reflect on tools and strategies to engage with different stakeholders. We propose that serious games can be designed to introduce stakeholders to a novel environmental policy tool and to communicate research on environmental issues. Our case is biodiversity offsetting (BDO), a novel policy tool aiming to reconcile nature conservation with other land uses. As any media, games offer certain framings of the issues they communicate about—some aspects are made more salient than others. However, frame analysis has not been widely used to analyze the design choices or the messages communicated by games. We analyze how these framings are designed into a game communicating about environmental issues. Aim To intervene in the emerging public discussion on BDO in Finland, we designed a land use board game and during the design process, played it with public and private stakeholders who would soon encounter and implement biodiversity offsetting policies in Finland. The aim of this article is to describe how our framings of BDO affected the design process and how those framings interacted with the design decisions we made. With our analysis, we want to contribute to the understanding of how framings and design choices interact in game design and how paying attention to framings is especially important for the design of SGs. Method We analyze how our framings of biodiversity offsetting and our design choices interact in game design. Our understanding of biodiversity offsetting guided our game design, but the design choices also contribute to the framing of the issue itself. Results Game design choices strongly frame the topic of the game and thus influence the function of a serious game. Thus, the framings of the topic should be considered carefully during the game design process, especially in the context of serious games.

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“…Therefore, efforts may be better focussed on encouraging residents to participate in any type of nature‐based recreation. Lastly, the type and range of nature‐based interactions that individuals experience further emphasizes the importance and potential of incorporating daily human–nature connections containing physical, conceptual and visual elements (Hess, 2010; Ishibashi et al., 2020).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

What informs human–nature connection? An exploration of factors in the context of urban park visitors and wildlife

Hayes Hursh,

Perry,

Drake

2024

People and Nature

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Human–nature connection (HNC) is a concept derived from investigating the formulation and extent of an individual's identification with the natural world. This relationship is often characterized as an emotional bond to nature that develops from the contextualized, physical interactions of an individual, beginning in childhood. This outcome presents complexity in evaluating the development of HNC but suggests optimism in the pathways for enhancing lifelong HNC. As urban populations increase, there is a growing recognition worldwide of the potential for urban green space to cultivate HNC and thus shape the environmental identity of urban residents. The results of an online survey of 560 visitors to three community parks (managed primarily to provide a variety of physical, social and cultural opportunities) and three conservation parks (managed primarily to protect native plants and wildlife) in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, were used to investigate HNC. Linear mixed effects models evaluated visitors' HNC as a function of their (1) literacy and sentiment about wildlife species, (2) park experience, (3) number and frequency of nine childhood and adult recreation experiences, and (4) demographics. Across the park response groups, the number and frequency of childhood and adult recreation experiences was significantly associated with HNC, and this positive association persisted in multiple recreation activities. Furthermore, species literacy and sentiment, visiting a park for ‘Nature’, and frequent and extended visitation also was significantly associated with HNC by park type. Our research demonstrates the importance of lifelong recreation experiences in the development and enhancement of HNC and provides evidence for differences in the expression of HNC associated with particular attributes of urban park visitors and their views of wildlife. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Imagining an Everyday Nature

Cited by 17 publications

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The diversity of people's relationships with biodiversity should inform forest restoration and creation

The diversity of people's relationships with biodiversity should inform forest restoration and creation

Offsetting Game—Framing Environmental Issues in the Design of a Serious Game

What informs human–nature connection? An exploration of factors in the context of urban park visitors and wildlife

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