Psychological ecosystem services : the impacts of nature experience on affect, emotion regulation, and cognitive function
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The world is currently undergoing rates of urbanization that are unprecedented in human history. Concurrent with this trend is a marked decrease in the rate of nature exposure for many urbanites. Although urban life provides many benefits, it is also associated with an increased risk for certain anxiety and mood disorders, including depression. As humanity is increasingly concentrated in urban environments, it is necessary that we gain an empirical understanding of the human well-being repercussions resultant from a decline in the frequency and duration of nature experience. This dissertation is focused on the ways in which nature experience benefits cognitive function, mood, and emotion regulation. With this understanding, we can begin to envision the manner in which environmental psychology can be incorporated into the paradigm of ecosystem services. The psychological health of human beings may then be included in this accounting of the potential impacts on well-being of elements of nature, and of changes in their distribution across rural and urban landscapes, and in people's access to them.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Bratman, Gregory Nelson |
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| Associated with | Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (Stanford University) |
| Primary advisor | Daily, Gretchen C |
| Primary advisor | Gross, James J |
| Thesis advisor | Daily, Gretchen C |
| Thesis advisor | Gross, James J |
| Thesis advisor | Kareiva, Peter M, 1951- |
| Thesis advisor | Lambin, Eric F |
| Thesis advisor | Meyer-Lindenberg, Andreas |
| Thesis advisor | Satz, Debra |
| Advisor | Kareiva, Peter M, 1951- |
| Advisor | Lambin, Eric F |
| Advisor | Meyer-Lindenberg, Andreas |
| Advisor | Satz, Debra |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Gregory Nelson Bratman. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- Copyright
- © 2016 by Gregory N Bratman
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