A paper investigating how contact with nature improves individual and collective resilience to environmental stresses
Nature-based solutions, such as urban forests and wetlands, can help communities cope with climate change and other environmental stresses, improving social-ecological resilience. However, the mechanisms that support individual nature-based resilience remain unclear. To fill these gaps, the paper proposes nature-based biopsychosocial resilience theory, or NBRT.
The theory suggests that contact with nature can help individuals build and maintain biological, psychological and social resilience resources, reducing risk, improving adaptive responses and facilitating recovery from stress.
Publication title
“Nature-based biopsychosocial resilience: An integrative theoretical framework for research on nature and health”
Authors
Mathew P White, Terry Hartig, Leanne Martin, Sabine Pahl, Agnes E van den Berg, Nancy M Wells, Caroline Costongs, Angel M Dzhambov, Lewis R Elliott, Alba Godfrey, Arnulf Hartl, Cecil Konijnendijk, Jill S Litt, Rebecca Lovell, Freddie Lymeus, Colm O’Driscoll, Christina Pichler, Sarai Pouso, Nooshin Razani, Laura Secco, Maximilian O Steininger, Ulrika K Stigsdotter, Maria Uyarra, Matilda van den Bosch