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Feb 12, 2020 | Events, Talks, Guest Speakers

Nature Contact and Psychological Well-Being

Growing empirical evidence demonstrates the ways in which nature contact may be a source of improved psychological wellbeing for urbanites, but the existing literature is dominated by cross-sectional designs and self-report assessments.

Designing for Health in the Informal Amphibious Community, Iquitos

Peru has significantly increased mining and oil extraction in the last decade, degrading Amazon Rainforest ecosystems and Indigenous livelihoods, interrupting local to global climate regulation, and resulting in rapid jungle-to-city migration with ultimately 90,000+ people living in informal “amphibious” communities floating in the floodplain borders of the jungle city.

Bratman Describes Science of Nature’s Effects on Psychological Health

Contact with nature—whether outdoors or indoors (e.g., from plants or window views)—is an emerging field of research showing potential to help address some important public-health problems, said Gregory Bratman, Ph.D., in a recent lecture at NIH.