Nature and mental health: An ecosystem service perspective
By G. Bratman, C. Anderson, Marc G. Berman, B. Cochran, S. de Vries, Jon Flanders, Carl Folke, H. Frumkin, James J. Gross, T. Hartig and 16 more. Science Advances, 2019
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We provide consensus on the benefits of nature experience for mental health, and a model for integrating them into urban design. A growing body of empirical evidence is revealing the value of nature experience for mental health. With rapid urbanization and declines in human contact with nature globally, crucial decisions must be made about how to preserve and enhance opportunities for nature experience. Here, we first provide points of consensus across the natural, social, and health sciences on the impacts of nature experience on cognitive functioning, emotional well-being, and other dimensions of mental health. We then show how ecosystem service assessments can be expanded to include mental health, and provide a heuristic, conceptual model for doing so.
Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Plant Science
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- Urban nature in a time of crisis: recreational use of green space increases during the COVID-19 outbreak in Oslo, Norway (2020, result): “This is in line with other studies that show how recreation in green spaces has significant benefits formental health (Rasmussen andLaumann 2013, Cox et al 2017, Fong et al 2018, Bratman et al 2019).”
- Nature tourism and mental health: parks, happiness, and causation (2020, background): “There are significant interrelationships between nature, tourism, and mental health (Bratman et al., 2019; Buckley et al., 2019; Holland et al., 2018; Thomsen et al., 2018), but these relationships are not all straightforward.”
- Role of Species and Planting Configuration on Transpiration and Microclimate for Urban Trees (2020, background): “Previous studies have shown that green infrastructure in urban environments is critical for mental and physical health [12] and for moderation and mitigation of the urban heat island effect [13,14].”