Nature-based biopsychosocial resilience: An integrative theoretical framework for research on nature and health

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• dc.contributor.author White, Mathew P.
• dc.contributor.author Litt, Jill
• dc.contributor.author van den Bosch, Matilda A.
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-01-15T06:43:44Z
• dc.date.available 2024-01-15T06:43:44Z
• dc.date.issued 2023
• dc.description.abstract Nature-based solutions including urban forests and wetlands can help communities cope better with climate change and other environmental stressors by enhancing social-ecological resilience. Natural ecosystems, settings, elements and affordances can also help individuals become more personally resilient to a variety of stressors, although the mechanisms underpinning individual-level nature-based resilience, and their relations to social-ecological resilience, are not well articulated. We propose 'nature-based biopsychosocial resilience theory' (NBRT) to address these gaps. Our framework begins by suggesting that individual-level resilience can refer to both: a) a person's set of adaptive resources; and b) the processes by which these resources are deployed. Drawing on existing nature-health perspectives, we argue that nature contact can support individuals build and maintain biological, psychological, and social (i.e. biopsychosocial) resilience-related resources. Together with nature-based social-ecological resilience, these biopsychosocial resilience resources can: i) reduce the risk of various stressors (preventive resilience); ii) enhance adaptive reactions to stressful circumstances (response resilience), and/or iii) facilitate more rapid and/or complete recovery from stress (recovery resilience). Reference to these three resilience processes supports integration across more familiar pathways involving harm reduction, capacity building, and restoration. Evidence in support of the theory, potential interventions to promote nature-based biopsychosocial resilience, and issues that require further consideration are discussed.
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• dc.identifier.citation White MP, Hartig T, Martin L, Pahl S, van den Berg AE, Wells NM, et al. Nature-based biopsychosocial resilience: An integrative theoretical framework for research on nature and health. Environ Int. 2023 Nov;181:108234. DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2023.108234
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2023.108234
• dc.identifier.issn 0160-4120
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/58674
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Elsevier
• dc.relation.ispartof Environ Int. 2023 Nov;181:108234
• dc.rights © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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• dc.subject.keyword Bluespace
• dc.subject.keyword Coping
• dc.subject.keyword Greenspace
• dc.subject.keyword Nature-based solutions
• dc.subject.keyword Nature-based therapies
• dc.title Nature-based biopsychosocial resilience: An integrative theoretical framework for research on nature and health
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