Urban residents' perceptions of neighbourhood nature: Does the extinction of experience matter?

Soga, Masashi; Gaston, Kevin J.; Koyanagi, Tomoyo F.; Kurisu, Kiyo; Hanaki, Keisuke

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2016.09.020

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“…As urban bird species richness is influenced by both local and landscape characteristics (Savard et al, ), generating an integrated, but differentiated management plan for Georgetown's landcover types could prove a useful tool for maintaining native birdlife. Enhancement of biodiversity in towns and cities can improve the quality of life of urban residents and, in turn, increase support for biodiversity conservation (Schebella, Weber, Schultz, & Weinstein, ; Soga, Gaston, Koyanagi, Kurisu, & Hanaki, ). This is particularly important for Georgetown and other coastal cities located in relatively pristine ecoregions like the Guiana Shield (Mittermeier, Turner, Larsen, Brooks, & Gascon, ), where the adverse effects of urbanization and climate change on bird communities are likely to increase dramatically in the coming decades (Solecki & Marcotullio, ; de Toledo et al, ).…”

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Bird communities across varying landcover types in a Neotropical city

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Urbanization poses a serious threat to local biodiversity, yet towns and cities with abundant natural features may harbor important species populations and communities. While the contribution of urban greenspaces to conservation has been demonstrated by numerous studies within temperate regions, few consider the bird communities associated with different landcovers in Neotropical cities. To begin to fill this knowledge gap, we examined how the avifauna of a wetland city in northern Amazonia varied across six urban landcover types (coastal bluespace; urban bluespace; managed greenspace; unmanaged greenspace; dense urban; and sparse urban).We measured detections, species richness, and a series of ground cover variables that characterized the heterogeneity of each landcover, at 114 locations across the city. We recorded >10% (98) of Guyana's bird species in Georgetown, including taxa of conservation interest. Avian detections, richness, and community composition differed with landcover type. Indicator species analysis identified 29 species from across dietary guilds, which could be driving community composition. Comparing landcovers, species richness was highest in managed greenspaces and lowest in dense urban areas. The canal network had comparable levels of species richness to greenspaces.The waterways are likely to play a key role in enhancing habitat connectivity as they traverse densely urbanized areas. Both species and landcover information should be integrated into urban land-use planning in the rapidly urbanizing Neotropics to maximize the conservation value of cities. This is imperative in the tropics, where anthropogenic pressures on species are growing significantly, and action needs to be taken to prevent biodiversity collapse. K E Y W O R D Savian, bluespace, diversity, greenspace, Guyana, indicator species, species richness, urban planning

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“…The majority of the world's people live in cities, where disconnection from nature is an increasing phenomenon (Soga et al. ). Urban residents struggle to link biodiversity conservation with actions undertaken at the household level.…”

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Revisiting the promise of conservation psychology

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Conservation psychology was first described as a field of research nearly 15 years ago (Saunders 2003) and such was the optimism for psychology to affect conservation that Saunders et al. (2006) published "Using Psychology to Save Biodiversity and Human Well-Being" in Conservation Biology. Conservation psychology developed as an offshoot from environmental psychology, a field that evolved from social psychology in the 1950s. Although environmental psychology is the study of people and their interactions with their environments, both built and natural, it initially did not address conservation matters. As conservation of biodiversity gained prominence, research into the psychological dimensions of conservation proliferated, and in 2003 the term conservation psychology was adopted to differentiate this field from environmental psychology. However, despite differences in scope, environmental psychology and conservation psychology are sometimes used interchangeably (Clayton & Saunders 2012).Managing human behavior is essential for biodiversity conservation. It is therefore timely to consider the uptake and impact of conservation psychology by examining how the publishing record in this field has changed over time and how its content relates to biodiversity. We performed a literature search via Web of Science (www.webofknowledge.com) for articles containing conservation psychology in keywords, abstracts, or titles. We found 68 articles published in peer-reviewed journals from January 2003 (the year the field was described) and December 2016. Six of these (8.8%) related to energy and water conservation-topics generally considered within the broader field of environmental psychology. * To capture further relevant papers that did not contain the term conservation psychology, we used the root terms: biodivers * AND (psycholog * OR "behavi * change"). This returned 155 relevant articles, of which 141 were unique to the additional search. Of the total relevant articles from the 2 searches (n = 203) (Fig. 1), 18.1% (37) were published in leading conservation journals, Conservation Biology (14), Ecological Economics (8), Biological Conservation (7), Conservation Letters (4), and Society and Natural Resources (4). Over the last 13 years, these 5 journals have published 12,880 articles. Our results suggest that only 0.28% of those are related to psychology. Although there are likely additional terms that could be used to explore the conservation psychology literature, our results indicate that despite perceptions of growth in conservation psychology, behavioral research has not yet penetrated mainstream conservation science. Additionally, only 5 articles in our search came from environmental psychology journals, Environment and Behavior and Journal of Environmental Psychology, which equates to just 0.36% of their output during the same period.Our results reveal that conservation psychology has not become an umbrella term for interdisciplinary research that integrates biodiversity conservation and psychology; although the number...

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“…Barthel et al, 2010). Given the scale of gardening activities, and the apparent feasibility of accommodating them in cities and towns, these have great potential for limiting the ongoing loss of human–nature interaction—the extinction of experience (Soga and Gaston, 2016, Soga et al, 2016). …”

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Gardening is beneficial for health: A meta-analysis

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Gaston

Yamaura

2017

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There is increasing evidence that gardening provides substantial human health benefits. However, no formal statistical assessment has been conducted to test this assertion. Here, we present the results of a meta-analysis of research examining the effects of gardening, including horticultural therapy, on health. We performed a literature search to collect studies that compared health outcomes in control (before participating in gardening or non-gardeners) and treatment groups (after participating in gardening or gardeners) in January 2016. The mean difference in health outcomes between the two groups was calculated for each study, and then the weighted effect size determined both across all and sets of subgroup studies. Twenty-two case studies (published after 2001) were included in the meta-analysis, which comprised 76 comparisons between control and treatment groups. Most studies came from the United States, followed by Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Studies reported a wide range of health outcomes, such as reductions in depression, anxiety, and body mass index, as well as increases in life satisfaction, quality of life, and sense of community. Meta-analytic estimates showed a significant positive effect of gardening on the health outcomes both for all and sets of subgroup studies, whilst effect sizes differed among eight subgroups. Although Egger's test indicated the presence of publication bias, significant positive effects of gardening remained after adjusting for this using trim and fill analysis. This study has provided robust evidence for the positive effects of gardening on health. A regular dose of gardening can improve public health.

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Urban residents' perceptions of neighbourhood nature: Does the extinction of experience matter?

Cited by 135 publications

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Bird communities across varying landcover types in a Neotropical city

Bird communities across varying landcover types in a Neotropical city

Revisiting the promise of conservation psychology

Gardening is beneficial for health: A meta-analysis

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