The Human Relationship with Nature
As a species we came of age with nature – and more wild forms of nature – and the need for nature still exists within us, body and mind. Our lab has pioneered different areas, including children and nature, social and moral relationships with nature, environmental generational amnesia, the rediscovery of the
wild, and ecopsychology.
Lam, L.-W, Kahn, P. H., Jr., & Weiss, T. (2023). Children in Hong Kong interacting with relatively wild nature (vs. domestic nature) engage in less dominating and more relational behaviors. Environmental Education Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2023.2169254
Weiss, T., Kahn, P. H., Jr., & Lam, L.-W. (2023). Children’s interactions with relatively wild nature associated with more relational behavior: A model of child-nature interaction in a forest preschool. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 86, 101941. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101941
Li, H., Browning, H. E. M., Rigolon, A., Larson, L. R., Taff, D., Labib, S. M., Benfield, J., Yuan, S., McAnirlin, O. Hatami, N., Kahn, P. H., Jr. (2023). Beyond “bluespace” and “greenspace”: A narrative review of possible health benefits from exposure to other natural landscapes. Science of the Total Environment, 856(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159292