The Relationship between Nature Deprivation and Individual Wellbeing across Urban Gradients under COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: Lockdown aiming at slowing COVID-19 transmission has altered nature accessibility patterns, creating quasi-experimental conditions to assess if retracted nature contact and perceived nature deprivation influence physical and emotional wellbeing. We measure through on-line survey methods (n = 529) how pandemic mandates limiting personal movement and outdoor nature access within the United States affect self-assessed nature exposure, perceived nature deprivation, and subsequent flourishing as measured by the Harvard Flourishing Index. Results indicate that perceived nature deprivation strongly associates with local nature contact, time in nature, and access to municipal nature during the pandemic, after controlling for lockdown mandates, job status, household composition, and sociodemographi

SUBMITTER: Tomasso LP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7915014 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature