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Connecting Canadians with Nature: An Investment in the Well-Being of Our Citizens
  • Author(s): Canadian Parks Council
  • Organization: Canadian Parks Council
  • Date Published: January 1, 2014

This easy to read document outlines the current situation with respect to Canadians spending time outdoors in parks. This is followed by a presentation of the benefits of connecting with nature and the role of Canadian Parks.

Connecting Families and Children to Nature in Maple Ridge

Connecting People to Nature in Campbell River

Connecting People to Surrey’s Parks

Connecting to Nature – Kindergarten Class – 4 lesson plans

  • Author(s): Janet Ready

https://hin.bcrpa.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/formidable/6/Connecting-to-Nature_Kindergarten-class_4-lesson-plans.pdf

Connecting to Nature as an “Intention” in Port Coquitlam summer camps

  • Author(s): Janet Ready
  • Organization: Langara College
  • Date Published: December 22, 2016

https://hin.bcrpa.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/formidable/6/Connecting-to-Nature-as-an-Intention-in-Port-Coquitlam.pdf

Connecting to Nature in Early Childhood – West Shore Parks and Recreation

Cooperation is in our nature: Nature exposure may promote cooperative and environmentally sustainable behavior

  • Author(s): John M. Zelenski, Raelyne L, Dopko, Colin A. Capaldi
  • Organization: Journal of Environmental Psychology, V 42, pages 24-31
  • Date Published: June 1, 2015

Theory and correlational research suggest that connecting with nature may facilitate prosocial and environmentally sustainable behaviors. In three studies the authors test causal direction with experimental manipulations of nature exposure and laboratory analogs of cooperative and sustainable behavior. Participants who watched a nature video harvested more cooperatively and sustainably in a fishing-themed commons dilemma, compared to participants who watched an architectural video (Study 1 and 2) or geometric shapes with an audio podcast about writing (Study 2). The effects were not due to mood, and this was corroborated in Study 3 where pleasantness and nature content were manipulated independently in a 2 x 2 design. Participants exposed to nature videos responded more cooperatively on a measure of social value orientation and indicated greater willingness to engage in environmentally sustainable behaviors. Collectively, results suggest that exposure to nature may increase cooperation, and, when considering environmental problems as social dilemmas, sustainable intentions and behavior.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494415000195