Background: At a time of increasing disconnectedness from nature, scientific interest in the
potential health benefits of nature contact has grown. Research in recent decades has …

Mounting evidence demonstrates that nature exposure can have affective benefits. These
include behavioral and psychophysiological responses consistent with (a) decreases in …

The “Plantationocene” has gained traction in the environmental humanities as a way of
conceptualizing the current era otherwise nominated as the Anthropocene, Capitalocene, or …

Although environmental education research has embraced the idea of sense of place, it has
rarely taken into account environmental psychology-based sense of place literature whose …

This paper explores the nature of people's emotional relationships to places in order to learn
about the kinds of places that are meaningful for people, the role these places play in their …

As the demographic composition of the United States changes, racial and ethnic minorities
constitute a larger proportion of the overall population. Understanding the nature-based …

The mission of the US National Park Service (NPS) is increasingly challenged by
underrepresentation of visitors from low-income and racial/ethnic minority backgrounds. To …

African American intellectual thought has long provided a touchstone for national politics
and civil rights, but, as Kimberly Smith reveals, it also has much to say about our relationship …

Rarely do Indian environmental discourses examine nature through the lens of caste.
Whereas nature is considered as universal and inherent, caste is understood as a …

This article focuses on Badin, North Carolina, a segregated aluminum company town
established in the early 1900s and site of a current environmental justice struggle …