Country-level factors in a failing relationship with nature: Nature connectedness as a key metric for a sustainable future

• DOI: 10.1007/s13280-022-01744-w
• Publication Date: 2022-05-31T18:24:58Z
• Authors: Miles Richardson; Iain Hamlin; Lewis R. Elliott; Mathew P. White
• Keywords: Social Connectedness; Prosperity; Consumption; Sustainable Consumption

Climate change and biodiversity loss show that the human-nature relationship is failing. That can be measured through construct of nature connectedness which a key factor in pro-environmental behaviours mental well-being. Country-level indicators extinction experience, consumption commerce, use control negativistic factors were selected. An exploratory analysis between these metrics across adult samples from 14 European countries was conducted (n = 14,745 respondents). The provides insight into how affluence, technology are associated with relationship. These findings motivate comparison composite prosperity, progress, development, sustainability relate to human nature's In indexes, it proposed critical indicator well-being needed inform transition sustainable future.