What counts as ‘nature’? It all depends
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at VerticalNews Health & Science -- Think, for a moment, about the last time you were out in nature. Were you in a city park? At a campground? On the beach? In the mountains?
Now consider: What was this place like in your parents’ time? Your grandparents’? In many cases, the parks, beaches and campgrounds of today are surrounded by more development, or are themselves more developed, than they were decades ago.
But to you, they still feel like nature.
That’s what University of Washington psychology professor Peter Kahn calls “environmental generational amnesia” -- the idea that …
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(2017-12-03), What counts as ‘nature’? It all depends, NewsRx Health & Science, 17, ISSN: 1944-2602, BUTTER® ID: 014778654