8.06 Arts, culture, and parks programs express the spirituality of the land and encourage stewardship ethics.
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The role of urban parks for the sustainable city
The experience of nature in urban environment is a source of positive feelings and beneficial services, which fulfill important immaterial and non-consumptive human needs.
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Art and Wellbeing: A Guide to the Connections between Community Cultural Development and Health, Eco
Direct involvement by communities in arts activity can contribute significantly to individual and community wellbeing and can enhance the efforts of government agencies in realizing their policies...
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Thriving Arts : Thriving Small Communities
The arts help to instill self-discipline, teamwork, improved mental and physical health, as well as greater civic engagement. In addition to supporting basic academic skills, the arts contribute...
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Mapping the terrain of contemporary ecoart practice and collaboration: Art in ecology – A think tank
Most EcoART collaborative projects, whether initiated by artists, environmental groups, local museums or communities, tend to be connected to a sense of place, and spring from local concerns with...
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What can sport do? The True Sport Report
Canada’s community sport system possesses a unique potential that we have only just begun to explore. The evidence also bears out Canadians’ fundamental belief that realizing this potential is...
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A Footprint of Delight: Exploring Sustainable Happiness
The top ten qualities of "delightful places" were:
1. a pleasure to walk through,
2. peaceful,
3. beautiful,
4. appealing for children,
5. lots of visible green space,
6. appealing for... -
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Spiritual revelation in wilderness under down-under
Wilderness spirituality provides a feeling of connection and interrelationship with other people and nature; a heightened sense of awareness and elevated consciousness beyond the everyday and...
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Who benefits from access to green space? A case study from Sheffield, UK
"Green spaces play an important role in supporting urban communities both ecologically and socially.”
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Visions of nature and landscape type preferences: An exploration in the Netherlands
In rapidly urbanizing settings such as The Netherlands, new protective attitudes and a new longings for nature are rising to cultural dominance. Protecting and developing landscapes, irrespective...
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Urban ecotourism: A contradiction in terms?
The authors discuss the various benefits of ecotourism operations based in urban environments - benefits related restoration of natural areas, impacts of the transportation of visitors,...
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Restorative experience and self-regulation in favorite places
Natural settings clearly predominated among favorite places and were underrepresented among unpleasant places. The feelings most frequently associated with favorite places would contribute to...
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Ancient values, new challenges: Indigenous spiritual perceptions of landscapes and forest management
The Cheam people derive not only material sustenance and cultural identity from the forest landscape, but also a feeling of inward, spiritual security and sustenance.
