The Nature of Environmental Experience

Ittelson, William H.; Franck, Karen A.; O'Hanlon, Timothy J.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4613-4259-5_9

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“…It seems logical that outdoor recreationists, especially those who are learning, viewing, observing, studying, identifying, or photographing nature are required to have some level of focus throughout their experience. The Environmental Focus Scale (originally titled the Environmental Experience Scale) is a dependent variable that was used by Borrie and Roggenbuck (2001) in an investigation of the on-site phase of a recreation experience and is based on the work of Ittelson, Franck and O'Hanlon (1978). In the original proposition, Ittelson et al (1978) suggest a number of modes or ways to experience the environment.…”

Section: Environmental Focusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Changes in Visitors' Environmental Focus during an Appreciative Recreation Experience

McKay

2012

Journal of Leisure Research

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Section: Environmental Focusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Changes in Visitors' Environmental Focus during an Appreciative Recreation Experience

McKay

2012

Journal of Leisure Research

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“…Place is therefore inherently linked to perceptions (sensory and otherwise) and individual emotions. This is not dissimilar to the different modes of environmental experience discussed by Ittelson, Franck and O'Hanlon (1976), including the environment as an external place, as emotional territory, as self, as a social system, and a setting for action.…”

Section: Place-making Sense Of Place Place Attachment and Identitymentioning

confidence: 63%

A place-based perspective on marine and coastal space

Gee¹,

Siedschlag²

2020

Eur. XXI

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Over recent years the sea has experienced re-interpretation as marine space, or more specifically as marine spatial planning (MSP) space. This article uses the concept of place as a contrasting interpretation to space, referring to place-making as a metaphor for the various ways in which meaning is created in the sea. As expressions of an intimate connection between experienced materiality and symbolism, places (unlike space) are never abstract, but always carry emotional dimensions. Place attachment can be the result of everyday profe ssional links, recreational activities, or living by the sea, and arises despite the greater intangibility of locations in the sea. As a result of their greater physical intangibility, places in the sea may require more frequent (re-)making than places on land, pointing to the inherent importance (and value in their own right) of the associated (socio-cultural) processes of place-making. The ability to engage in place-making is thus an important avenue for expressing place-based values, an understanding which could be used to enrich marine spatial planning processes. Focusing more on the intimate connections people have with places in the sea and how quality of place matters to them could turn MSP into an enabler of place-making, becoming more of a rich and continuous dialogue around the multiple ways in which people interact with and value the sea.

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“…The West End studies were identified as critically important to an emerging field of environmental psychology in their recognition of the need for new techniques that could capture the ways in which environments were experienced by those who inhabited them. 109 Mental health would remain a central feature of this work, as they sought to reduce the stress associated with various aspects of urban living; but potential stressors in the physical environment were now understood to be mediated through a complex of individual, social and cultural factors that they had only just begun to understand. The West…”

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Remembering the West End: social science, mental health and the American urban environment, 1939–1968

Ramsden

Smith

2017

Urban History

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ABSTRACT:Analysing the urban renewal of Boston's West End during the 1950s, we examine how psychiatrists, social scientists and urban planners understood the relationship between the urban environment and mental health. For psychiatrist Erich Lindemann, the West End offered a unique opportunity to study how acute stress and loss affected populations, thus contributing to social psychiatry, which sought to prevent mental illness by addressing factors in the social and physical environment. While Lindemann's project provided a sophisticated response to the often simplistic arguments about the cities and mental health, it also highlighted the challenges of applying social psychiatric theory in practice.

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The Nature of Environmental Experience

Cited by 42 publications

References 4 publications

Changes in Visitors' Environmental Focus during an Appreciative Recreation Experience

Changes in Visitors' Environmental Focus during an Appreciative Recreation Experience

A place-based perspective on marine and coastal space

Remembering the West End: social science, mental health and the American urban environment, 1939–1968

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