Nature Connection: Providing a Pathway from Personal to Planetary Health

The vast and growing challenges for human health and all life on Earth require urgent and deep structural changes to the way in which we live. Broken relationships with nature are at the core of both the modern health crisis and the erosion of planetary health. A declining connection to nature has been implicated in the exploitative attitudes that underpin the degradation of both physical and social environments and almost all aspects of personal physical, mental, and spiritual health.

Citation:
Zelenski J, Warber S, Robinson JM, Logan AC, Prescott SL. Nature Connection: Providing a Pathway from Personal to Planetary Health. Challenges [Internet]. 2023; 14(1).

Keywords:
Nature relatedness; pro-environmental attitudes; biodiversity; microbiomes; personal health; planetary health; altruism; inner development; spirituality; value systems

Abstract:
The vast and growing challenges for human health and all life on Earth require urgent and deep structural changes to the way in which we live. Broken relationships with nature are at the core of both the modern health crisis and the erosion of planetary health. A declining connection to nature has been implicated in the exploitative attitudes that underpin the degradation of both physical and social environments and almost all aspects of personal physical, mental, and spiritual health.