Reconnecting Human and Nature for Landscape Sustainability
Subject Areas :Marziyeh Tahmasbi 1 , خسرو دانشجو 2
1 - PhD student in Landscape Architecture, Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Tarbiat Modares University
2 - Assistant Professor of Architecture, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Tarbiat Modares University
Keywords: Human–Nature Relationship, Social-Ecological Systems, Sustainability, Landscape Architecture.,
Abstract :
Nature is the most important environmental variable that has affected human life since beginning of history. Humans play a role in nature both as users and as participants in nature's preservation. Therefore, there is always a mutual relationship between humans and nature. However, there has been a great separation between humans and the natural environment in recent years due to various reasons, especially urbanization, which has had many consequences. Thus, based on sustainability research, societies' demands for reconnection with nature have increased. Yet, there is relatively little coherence about what reconnecting to nature means, why it should happen, and how it is achieved. This reconnection can play a significant role in responding to many environmental challenges. The study's purpose is to create a conceptual framework for a better understanding of how human beings interact with nature to strengthen this relationship. The research method is based on the statements and its qualitative approach, content analysis and interpretation of the findings. This study tried to present a conceptual framework to organize existing literature and direct future research on human-nature connections and discussed how reconnecting people with nature can function as a treatment for the global environmental crisis. In this paper, the data are collected using library studies. After summarizing and categorizing them, they are analyzed in descriptive and interpretive manners. The results show that to achieve advance and strengthen the relationship between man and nature, comprehensive measures at the individual and social levels and policy interventions demand specific changes. Finally, this strengthening of human individual and social relations with nature can be effective in achieving the goals of sustainability.
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