“…Van Stan et al, 2023)! Finally, as noted by McNamara et al (2018), education and research activities in the field help to develop a "sense of place" (a sense of human emotional attachment to a particular spatial setting, see Leather & Thorsteinsson, 2021) fostering catchments as spaces, that is, unspecific locations, to become places, that is, more local, personal, and storied locations. Teaching outdoors, spending time in the field, and experiencing these places aesthetically (seeing, smelling, touching, and being outside) promote connectedness to nature which was demonstrated to be an important driver of environmentally responsible behaviour and to provide evident psychological benefits (Chang et al, 2024;Frantz & Mayer, 2014).…”