The green care code: How nature connectedness and simple activities help explain pro‐nature conservation behaviours

By Miles Richardson, Holli-Anne Passmore, Lea Barbett, R. Lumber, Rory Thomas, A. Hunt. People and Nature, 2020

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1. The biodiversity crisis demands greater engagement in pro-nature conservation behaviours. Research has examined factors which account for general proenvironmental behaviour; that is, behaviour geared to minimizing one's impact on the environment. Yet, a dearth of research exists examining factors that account for pro-nature conservation behaviour specifically—behaviour that directly and actively supports conservation of biodiversity. 2. This study is the first of its kind to use a validated scale of pro-nature conservation behaviour. Using online data from a United Kingdom population survey of 1,298 adults (16+ years), we examined factors (composed of nine variable-blocks of items) that accounted for pro-nature conservation behaviour. 3. These were: individual characteristics (demographics, nature connectedness), nature experiences (time spent in nature, engaging with nature through simple activities, indirect engagement with nature), knowledge and attitudes (knowledge/ study of nature, valuing and concern for nature) and pro-environmental behaviour. 4. Together, these explained 70% of the variation in people's actions for nature. 5. Importantly, in a linear regression examining the relative importance of these variables to the prediction of pro-nature

Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Social Psychology

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In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

1. A. Hunt
2. R. Lumber
3. Miles Richardson
4. R. Young
5. B. Moorhouse
6. J. Dobson
7. D. Abson

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. A. Hunt
2. R. Lumber
3. Miles Richardson
4. R. Young
5. B. Moorhouse
6. J. Dobson
7. D. Abson

In Social Psychology

1. A. Hunt
2. R. Lumber
3. Miles Richardson
4. Tim N. Höffler

Citations in the corpus

• Applying the pathways to nature connectedness at a societal scale: a leverage points perspective (2020, background): “More recently, nature connectedness has been found to be an important factor in explaining the pro-nature conservation behaviours required to support wildlife, particularly when working together with other factors (Richardson et al. 2020).”
• Biodiversity citizen science: Outcomes for the participating citizens (2021, background): “However, there is a lack of validated scales, on, for example, biodiversity- specific behaviour (Richardson et al., 2020); the development of psychometrically validated scales would be useful for future research.”