Miles Richardson
@findingnature
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Prof. of Human Factors & Nature Connectedness @DerbyUni - improving nature connection to unite human & nature’s wellbeing. Biodiversity stripes creator.
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Reconnection: Fixing our Broken Relationship with Nature
💔How was our close bond with nature broken?
🦠What invisible links with nature remain?
💚What are the benefits of a close relationship with nature?
👣What are the pathways to reconnection?
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For
#EarthDay
the biodiversity stripes have a new home linked to
@ed_hawkins
climate warming stripes, because the Earth faces two environmental challenges. Take a look and
#ShowYourStripes
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Inspired by
@ed_hawkins
climate stripes I've made some biodiversity stripes using
@LPI_Science
data to show how the average drop of 68% in the population of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians & reptiles since 1970 is a journey from green to grey:
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“Fake turf is the manifestation of a deep cultural weakness, expressed in short-termism and a distaste and disrespect for the wonder, variety, and temporality of the natural world.”
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It's
#ShowYourStripes
day - as the climate warms, biodiversity falls.
Twinned with the climate warming stripes a reminder that we face two environmental challenges
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Biodiversity stripes on
#BiodiversityDay
The population of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles has fallen by 68% globally since 1970.
A loss of vibrancy and colour, where the green becomes grey.
#ShowYourStripes
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The population of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles has fallen by 68% globally since 1970. A loss of vibrancy and colour, where the green becomes grey. My blog on how that data can be represented by biodiversity stripes:
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This is the spot where the village gardening club sow wildflowers to the left and the council mow down the real wildflowers to the right.
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The biodiversity stripes now have a dedicated home at:
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Out today! Reconnection: Fixing our Broken Relationship with Nature
How did our relationship with nature fail, why does it matter and how can we fix it?
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Look what’s arrived! Super chuffed!
How did our relationship with nature fail, why does it matter and how can we fix it?
Coming soon with
@pelagicpublish
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I’m with
@NaturalistDara
and
@RobGMacfarlane
- Twitter has been really useful to both inform and share my research. I see great content, meet new people and starting from scratch elsewhere will slow the work needed for a more sustainable future. I’m staying
#NaturePositive
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The loss of wildlife leads to a greyer world. The decline in 944 freshwater species since 1970 as stripes from blue to grey. Data: Living Planet Index. More stripes here:
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The Nature Connection Handbook
What nature connection is and why it matters ✅
How to grow closer to nature ✅
Nature connection case studies ✅
For a new and sustainable relationship with nature:
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The trio of climate, biodiversity and new
@wwf_uk
forest stripes tells a devastating story of environmental crises and our failing relationship with nature.
#showyourstripes
More on the stripes, forests and people:
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The
@MeganMcCubbin
&
@ChrisGPackham
@SIBirdClub
may have closed, but it made our latest research possible. Find out how 'joy watching' birds lowered anxiety and which garden bird brought the most joy:
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Reconnection: Fixing our broken relationship with nature
How did our relationship with nature fail, why does it matter and how can we fix it?
Coming early 2023 with
@pelagicpublish
:
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A depressing moment adding two grey biodiversity stripes, now representing a 69% decline in wildlife populations since 1970.
Don't let a green
#LivingPlanet
turn grey.
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Quite chuffed with my first attempt at a Christmas wreath - holly, ivy, snowberry, hawthorn, hazelnuts and even brambles - all from the garden.
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The Nature Connection Handbook is approaching 25,000 downloads. Great to know there's such interest in:
What nature connection is and why it matters ✅
How to grow closer to nature ✅
Nature connection case studies ✅
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Excited to launch the Nature Connected Organisations Handbook. A guide for connecting organisations with nature for sustainable futures and workplace wellbeing. Download for free here:
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Excited to launch The Nature Connection Handbook - available to download via my latest blog:
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A moment at Bird Stop 31. How about a national network of Bird Stops? Lay-bys where local people top up the feeders (as they do here) and passersby can have a moments calm, joy and reconnection - some
@BirdTherapy
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Love these new coins. How about a currency pegged to biodiversity for a richer world?
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The UK is one of the most nature depleted nations on the planet, people need to know about our broken relationship with nature - we can then explain why it matters and start to fix it.
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A New Relationship with Nature: What it means and what we can do. Read in full and download the PDF here:
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A damp, but satisfying morning turning a pile of old slate into something for the ‘dead’ area under the bird feeders - a place for the bugs and mice to live too.
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Very happy to see the release of 'Nature and Me'. A short guide on how to get close to nature and the benefits this can bring from
@DerbyUni
and the
@nationaltrust
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What type of relationship is based on facts and figures? 🤔
A closer, healthier and more sustainable relationship with nature comes through noticing, emotion, finding beauty and meaning, compassion.
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As the climate warms the natural world turns grey.
Global warming and biodiversity loss since 1970.
#showyourstripes
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The Nature Connection Handbook has had over 40,000 downloads.
Tomorrow we launch the follow-up about Nature Connected Organisations.
Watch here or subscribe to
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The Nature Connection Handbook has passed 30,000 downloads. Great to know there's such interest in:
What nature connection is and why it matters ✅
How to grow closer to nature ✅
Nature connection case studies ✅
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70% of people losing touch with nature - but a knowledge based relationship isn't the way to get closer
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"A heartbreaking 62 percent of adults rarely listen to birdsong and 79 rarely smelled wild flowers."
And those simple actions are key for a worthwhile and sustainable life.
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Biodiversity Stripes – A Journey from Green to Grey
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The 69% loss of wildlife since 1970 is a real horror story for
#Halloween
We should be haunted by the ghosts of nature lost
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The biodiversity stripes have a new home, now twinned with the climate stripes - together they tell a story where few words are needed
#showyourstripes
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Out today, Noticing Nature our report with
@nationaltrust
on the importance of noticing nature and a close relationship with nature for a worthwhile and pro-nature life:
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Human Connection With Nature Improves Wellbeing and Pro-Environmental Behaviours: Study
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Disconnection & the Decline of Nature in Fiction, Film & Song - research into the loss of nature words in the 20th C
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The Nature Connection Handbook passed 20,000 downloads today.
Great to know there's such interest in fostering a new relationship with nature.
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‘Artists who use natural sounds in their recordings can choose to list "Nature" as a featured artist - and a share of their profits will be distributed to environmental causes.’
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Great to see the
#1
theme in an imagined future is a closer relationship with nature - and an honour to be part of the
#PeoplesPlanforNature
process. Download the full report here:
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Excellent! Our nature connectedness research won!
Thank you to all those we've worked with and those using and applying our research.
Winner of the Research with Impact - Institution Award for a large institution is
@DerbyUni
Congratulations!
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Excited to start work on a book about our relationship with (the rest of) nature - why it’s failing, why it matters and how we might fix it. Out early 2023 with
@pelagicpublish
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“Two-hour ‘dose’ of nature significantly boosts health“ - a useful way of getting the message across (as I have done), but does it frame nature as a resource for dipping into? Rather than something we’re part of?
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The Nature Connection Handbook - a new guide to applying the science of nature connectedness for both human & nature's wellbeing - with a dozen case studies showing how organisations big & small are bringing people closer to nature using five pathways:
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Is the UK really a nation of nature lovers?
Results of an 18 country survey published in Scientific Reports suggest that as a nation we visit nature less and have a low level of nature connectedness.
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How actively noticing nature (not just time in nature) helps promote nature connectedness - our latest research paper has been published:
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‘We’re destroying nature, we’re destroying humanity. We’re certainly destroying this civilisation….What I’m suggesting is that relationships are primary…[and there’s a need to] re-kindle in ourselves a sense of awe and wonder, in this beautiful world’
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Explaining nature connectedness and the need for a new relationship with nature
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Nature's decline shows our relationship with nature is broken. To fix it we need a new relationship, beyond utility & control, facts & figures, observation & identification, to a celebration of nature's beauty, celebrating the feelings & meaning nature brings to our lives.
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What nature connection is and why it matters ✅
How to grow closer to nature ✅
Nature connection case studies ✅
The Nature Connection Handbook:
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Been such a busy day that I forgot it started with a paper accepted. Key output from five years of work with
@NaturalEngland
and others on the links between nature connectedness, wellbeing and pro-nature behaviours.
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First two research papers of 2022 accepted today. Factors associated with nature connectedness in school-aged children and another on how nature connectedness, nonattachment and engagement with nature’s beauty predict pro-nature conservation behaviours.
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We imagined a nature connected society and the full report and vision is now available:
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The increase in nature connectedness research since 2001 is remarkable and is starting to shift science-policy thinking. My latest blog provides a brief summary of 8 papers published in the past month or so:
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Great to be interviewed on
@BBCr4today
just now about Trees.
If you want to know more about the Nature Connectedness Research Group
@DerbyUni
:
Or my book, Reconnection: Fixing our Broken Relationship with Nature:
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Another day done & 25 years at
@derbyuni
completed. Started as technician, now professor. A few highlights, ‘flatpack king’ in 2003, online MSc Ergonomics launch 2005, with its virtual workplace, forming the Nature Connectedness Research Group in 2013 and all that followed...
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How to improve nature connectedness: A meta-analysis - a blog summary and link through to our latest paper in the journal Sustainability:
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Nature has been shown to help manage anxiety in many studies, here simply rating the joy garden birds bring led to a greater decrease in anxiety than counting birds
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
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Only a New Relationship with Nature can Prevent a Silent Spring - a new short essay, ideal for a Sunday read:
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What nature connection is and why it matters ✅
How to grow closer to nature ✅
Nature connection case studies ✅
The Nature Connection Handbook
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The heating of the planet and global loss of biodiversity since 1970. This landscape is feeling quite familiar just now.
#ShowYourStripes
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'Nature and Me' - our rather fab looking guide on how to get close to nature and the benefits this can bring:
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Well, that’s the grass cut, just enough to get to a bench and take a moment to notice the wildlife enjoying it.
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We found the most common length of trip in urban greenspaces was 4 minutes 36 seconds - how can these brief incidental visits to urban greenspaces be turned into everyday moments of wonder for human and nature's wellbeing?
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Our latest research published in Urban Ecology shows that noticing the joy of birds significantly lowers anxiety - but we also know that most adults don't notice birds...
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Prof Miles Richardson said: “What really stood out was how the people who didn’t feel a connection with nature at the outset were the ones who benefited most from taking part in 30 Days Wild.”
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Just completed first full play testing of a board game idea I’ve been developing over the past week or so - worked surprisingly well. Core idea is based on developing a community with a close relationship with nature.
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Nature Connections 2019 - Save the Date
Tuesday 2 July 2019 at the University of Derby
Enabling Nature Connection and the latest research on the links between nature connectedness, well-being & pro-nature behaviours.
Further details and call for papers will be announced soon.
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Intensive farming is biggest cause of bird decline in Europe - Use of pesticides and fertilisers identified as most significant factor behind loss of 550 million birds from skies
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Richard Jefferies, from 1883, predicting that nature connectedness will bring us happiness.
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Collected a variety of grasses from the garden, then it rained.
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Made the effort last year to get up and out to my local
@WildlifeTrusts
reserve for the dawn chorus, hugely memorable
#IDCD
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Capturing swifts on camera is quite a sport, great to be amongst them again.
http://t.co/mo6aI6kY2O
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Very exciting!
Pre-order your own copy ready for 25th April 2023:
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Lovely moment in the garden...the hedges are unruly, the grass is long, the birds are many.
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Seven factors in our failing relationship with nature.
Our new paper published in Ambio looks at the human-nature relationship across 14 European countries:
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