Nature, nurture, (Neo-)nostalgia? Back-casting for a more socially and environmentally sustainable post-COVID future

Collins, Rebecca; Rushton, Megan; Welsh, Katharine; Cliffe, Anthony D.; Bull, Eloise

doi:10.1080/14649365.2022.2104354

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Section: Intersectionality and The Imagining Of Post‐pandemic Ethicsmentioning

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Uneven geographies of COVID‐19: Reviewing geographical research agendas and concepts from a syndemics perspective

Butsch,

Everts,

Bork‐Hüffer

2024

Geography Compass

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Building upon a review of geographic research agendas and concepts related to the uneven geographies of COVID‐19, this first of three articles debates the benefits of geographic analyses to the syndemic approach and, vice versa, of a syndemics perspective to geographic analyses. The syndemics perspective was proposed by critical medical anthropologists. It seeks to deepen the understanding of the structural dimensions and processes that lead to the convergence and cascading of multiple epidemics in specific population groups. Geographers have also highlighted the intersections of multiple health or other crises during COVID‐19, when the pandemic and global health emergency coincided with and escalated existing structural inequalities produced by the climate crisis, environmental degradation, political conflicts and war, socio‐economic disparities and poverty, social divisions, racism, hatred and violence, mental health problems and stress. Geographers have mobilized concepts such as scale, territory, borders and intersectionality to unravel the uneven unfolding and consequences of the global health emergency for diverse population groups. We therefore argue that geography has a lot to contribute to the understanding of the spatial and contextual dimensions of COVID‐19 as a pandemic as well as a syndemic – but it has so far not actively employed the latter concept's analytical lens. Mobilizing the syndemics approach can contribute to more comprehensive accounts of the structural dimensions and processes that continue and cascade in pandemics.

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Section: Intersectionality and The Imagining Of Post‐pandemic Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Uneven geographies of COVID‐19: Reviewing geographical research agendas and concepts from a syndemics perspective

Butsch,

Everts,

Bork‐Hüffer

2024

Geography Compass

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‘On the mountain, the world is still all right’: Nature connections in context and the Covid journey of young adults in Austria

Bork‐Hüffer,

Wächter,

Hitchings

2024

People and Nature

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Research and policy during the Covid‐19 pandemic often dovetailed with an established interest in how nearby urban nature spaces can encourage human well‐being. Yet, to define the focus upfront in this way is to overlook the many ways in which different groups may draw on experiences in diverse natural environments to get through challenging times. This paper draws on a qualitative study with 98 university students in Innsbruck, Austria. As part of a co‐production approach, and using a range of exploratory and inductive methods, we examined how they coped with lockdown restrictions and other challenges to everyday life during the pandemic between March and November 2020. The study's longitudinal design reveals how their nature relations evolved over the lifetime of the pandemic. Participants showed a strong identification with the Alpine nature surrounding Innsbruck and deeply mourned opportunities to go there during quarantine at the start. With the relaxation of restrictions, they briefly celebrated the return of access to these spaces before nature experiences were soon blended back into their everyday lives as before. The findings present an account of nature spaces being valued during the pandemic precisely because they were away from urban spaces nearby that had come to feel strange as a result of the lockdown restrictions. This leads us to reflect on the importance of how exactly people engage with local nature and how nature connections change in response to the evolving pressures and preoccupations that shape everyday life, both for young people and others. We emphasise the value of contextual sensitivity in future research and policy hoping to foster nature benefits, both during crisis situations such as these and more generally. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Residents’ reshaping of public space during COVID-19: The case of North Tel Aviv

Billig,

Moria,

Kreitler

2024

Journal of Urban Affairs

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Nature, nurture, (Neo-)nostalgia? Back-casting for a more socially and environmentally sustainable post-COVID future

Cited by 3 publications

References 42 publications

Uneven geographies of COVID‐19: Reviewing geographical research agendas and concepts from a syndemics perspective

Uneven geographies of COVID‐19: Reviewing geographical research agendas and concepts from a syndemics perspective

‘On the mountain, the world is still all right’: Nature connections in context and the Covid journey of young adults in Austria

Residents’ reshaping of public space during COVID-19: The case of North Tel Aviv

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