Miles Richardson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3600103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miles Richardson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miles |
| FAMILY NAME | Richardson |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Derby |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7223-7053 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 118 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 294 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 117 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Macro-level determinants of nature connectedness: An exploratory analysis of 61 countries
Nature connectedness is increasingly recognised as a causal issue in environmental crises and a powerful strategy for transformative change. However, little is known about how it varies across countries and the macro-level factors that influence the human–nature relationship at a societal level. Using a large dataset ( N = 56 968) from a diverse set of 61 countries, this study explored how both objective country-level indicators of the socio-ecol…
Feature networks: The environmental features that are central to nature- connectedness experiences
Wilder nature had the greatest positive link to nature connectedness. • Human-influence had the greatest negative link to nature connectedness. • Trails, wild nature and mountains were central to nature connectedness experiences. Landscape planning and design holds the potential to contribute to efforts toward repairing our growing psychological disconnection with nature. To do so, however, it is important to know what types of environmental feat…
Introducing Heritage Connectedness: Connections to People, Nature and Place Across Time are Associated with Wellbeing and Environmentalism
Humans have a deep desire for connectedness. A sense of relationship with heritage potentially stands as an important form of connectedness that matters for both personal and planetary wellbeing. Exploring the concept of heritage connectedness is the overarching aim of this paper. Focus groups and interviews were used to understand what heritage connectedness means to people. Then, using a new heritage connectedness measurement approach, a large-…
How are nature exposures and nature connectedness related to well‐being and environmentalism in the population of England
The twin crises of mental and planetary health can benefit from understanding how visiting nature and nature connectedness are related to well‐being and environmentalism. These relationships are complicated by (1) the quality of neighbourhood nature, which can influence both nature visit behaviour and nature connectedness, as well as well‐being and environmentalism; (2) the interplay between visiting nature and nature connectedness in these relat…
Green pathways to mental health: Relationships between treescapes and well‐being and distress
We aimed to evaluate the mental health benefits and possible mechanisms of objective and subjective treescape exposures whilst also accounting for relationships with residential area greenspace in general. Independent variables were objective measures of residential neighbourhood tree cover density and woody linear features, and a subjective measure of perceived neighbourhood treescape richness. Outcome variables were four standard measures of po…
Self-transcendence through the lens of ontological addiction: Correlates of prosociality, competitiveness and pro-nature behavior
Self-transcendence and the associated decrease in ego-centeredness are understood to foster altruistic and positive behaviors that promote prosociality and pro-environmental actions. However, the lack of an agreed valid and reliable measure of self-transcendence has posed difficulties in examining this subject. The main aim of this study was to use the recently developed Ontological Addiction Scale (OAS), which assesses dysfunctional ego-centered…
Reconnection: Fixing Our Broken Relationship with Nature
How did our relationship with nature become broken, why does it matter and how can we fix it? From a past in which we were embedded in the natural world, revolutions in farming, science and industry have seen the human bond with nature eroded with the promise of prosperity offering happiness and meaning in life. This mindset may have delivered comfortable living for many, but there is growing recognition that the root cause of wildlife loss and t…
The benefits of citizen science and nature‐noticing activities for well‐being, nature connectedness and pro‐nature conservation behaviours
The current biodiversity crisis, extinction of experience of nature and rising concern about people's well‐being and mental health require us to understand the benefits of activities supporting people's engagement with nature. We ran a 1‐week randomised controlled experiment to test the impact of nature‐focussed activities on people's connectedness to nature and well‐being. This project, called ‘Nature Up Close and Personal: A Wellbeing Experimen…
Development of a nature connectedness intervention for disordered eating using a person-centred approach
Effects of Shinrin-Yoku (Forest Bathing) and Nature Therapy on Mental Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Shinrin-yoku, immersing oneself in nature using one’s senses, has been receiving increased attention internationally. While most of the existing studies have focused on physical health, this systematic review and meta-analysis examined the mental health impacts of shinrin-yoku, using the PRISMA guidelines (PROSPERO registry: BLINDED). Of 497 articles retrieved on databases including PubMed/MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Science Direct and Google Scholar, twe…
The Impact of a “Three Good Things in Nature” Writing Task on Nature Connectedness, Pro-nature Conservation Behavior, Life Satisfaction, and Mindfulness in Children
This research explores the relationships between nature connectedness, pro-nature conservation behavior, life satisfaction, and mindfulness in children aged 9–11 years and assesses the impact of a three good things in nature writing intervention. Participants were assigned to either an experimental condition, writing about three good things in nature (previously adapted from a positive psychology intervention), or a control condition, writing abo…
Visible Garden Biodiversity Is Associated with Noticing Nature and Nature Connectedness
A strong connection with nature promotes behaviors that help conserve the natural world. However, it is likely that this relationship is reciprocal, with proconservation behaviors positively impacting nature connectedness by increasing sensory contact with nature. Proconservation behaviors vary in terms of how much visible biodiversity, and therefore contact with nature, they produce. It is likely that conservation behaviors that support higher v…
Nature Connectedness, Nonattachment, and Engagement with Nature's Beauty Predict Pro-Nature Conservation Behavior
Although research has examined factors that account for pro-environmental behaviors relating to climate warming through carbon and resource use, very few studies have investigated factors that account for behavior that directly supports conservation of habitats and biodiversity. In particular, there remain questions as to whether nature connectedness relates to an individual's aesthetic or spiritual relationship with the objective world, or their…
Country-level factors in a failing relationship with nature: Nature connectedness as a key metric for a sustainable future
Climate change and biodiversity loss show that the human–nature relationship is failing. That relationship can be measured through the construct of nature connectedness which is a key factor in pro-environmental behaviours and mental well-being. Country-level indicators of extinction of nature experience, consumption and commerce, use and control of nature and negativistic factors were selected. An exploratory analysis of the relationship between…
Development and implementation of evaluation resources for a green outdoor educational program
The Green Spaces, Learning Places (GSLP) environmental education initiative runs schools-based and community-based sessions to create opportunities for children and young people to engage with green outdoor environments in London, England (including parks, heaths, and forests). Bespoke evaluation resources were developed by researchers in collaboration with the GSLP delivery teams. The evaluation was based on before and after survey responses fro…
Key advantages of the leverage points perspective to shape human-nature relations
This perspective paper synthesises the special issue 'Human-nature connectedness as a leverage point for sustainability transformation'. Based on the articles in this special issue, we aim to foster the operationalisation of the leverage points perspective to shape human-nature relations to enable sustainability transformations. Specifically, we draw on four key advantages of the leverage points perspective: (i) the explicit recognition of deep l…
A Novel Mindful Nature Connectedness Intervention Improves Paranoia but Not Anxiety in a Nonclinical Population
Paranoia and anxiety are both recognized as experiences that are widespread in the general population. Studies have investigated the use of brief mindfulness-based interventions on both conditions, with encouraging results among nonclinical populations in particular. However, there is also promising evidence for the effectiveness of brief nature connectedness interventions on anxiety and mental health more generally. Since mindfulness has been sh…
Actively Noticing Nature (Not Just Time in Nature) Helps Promote Nature Connectedness
The climate and biodiversity crises reveal a failing human–nature relationship. The psychological construct of nature connectedness provides a means for understanding and improving that relationship. Furthermore, recent research suggests that higher levels of nature connectedness benefit both people and the environment, promoting pro-nature conservation actions, pro-environmental behaviors, and greater personal well-being. Nature connectedness is…
The magic of the mundane: The vulnerable web of connections between urban nature and wellbeing
Where the wild things are! Do urban green spaces with greater avian biodiversity promote more positive emotions in humans?
Urban green space can help mitigate the negative impacts of urban living and provide positive effects on citizens’ mood, health and well-being. Questions remain, however, as to whether all types of green space are equally beneficial, and if not, what landscape forms or key features optimise the desired benefits. For example, it has been cited that urban landscapes rich in wildlife (high biodiversity) may promote more positive emotions and enhance…
Nature contact, nature connectedness and associations with health, wellbeing and pro-environmental behaviours
The Relationship Between Nature Connectedness and Eudaimonic Well-Being: A Meta-analysis
The good things in urban nature: A thematic framework for optimising urban planning for nature connectedness
Applying the pathways to nature connectedness at a societal scale: A leverage points perspective
The climate emergency and crisis of biodiversity loss show that the human–nature relationship is failing. This paper introduces the psychological construct of nature connectedness as a measurable target for improving the human–nature relationship, and therefore helping tackle the warming climate and loss of wildlife. The ‘pathways to nature connectedness’ (sensory contact, emotion, meaning, beauty and compassion) provide an important and flexible…
The green care code: How nature connectedness and simple activities help explain pro‐nature conservation behaviours
The biodiversity crisis demands greater engagement in pro‐nature conservation behaviours. Research has examined factors which account for general pro‐environmental behaviour; that is, behaviour geared to minimizing one's impact on the environment. Yet, a dearth of research exists examining factors that account for pro‐nature conservation behaviour specifically—behaviour that directly and actively supports conservation of biodiversity. This study …
Anthropologist-the Myth Teller1
The meaning of the anthropological movement comes from the sense of mission created out of the ethnographer's encounter with his alter, the informant. The traditional pattern of ethnographer-informant relations, in which the informant was the man of wisdom and the ethnographer his most briliant student, was permeated with a sense of rightness expressed in the morality of cultural relativism. Changes in the personnel who become the ethnographer an…
The Thick and the Thin: On the Interpretive Theoretical Program of Clifford Geertz [and Comments and Reply]
The promise of interpretive theory has led Clifford Geertz to call for a new and different anthropology as well as a broad "refiguration of social thought" in the social sciences and humanities. This essay examines Geertz's theoretical program, including its application to the specific cases of Balinese trance and the Balinese theatre state. Special attention is given to Geertz's claim that interpretive theory is superior to conventional social s…
Being-in-the-Market Versus Being-in-the-Plaza: Material culture and the construction of social reality in Spanish America
This article describes how the people of Cartago, Costa Rica-compelled, like each of us, to create-incorporate the material culture of their town's market and plaza into social situations. In so doing, they move from the physical reality of simply being there to the distinctive social realities of being-in-the-market and being-in-the-plaza. The juxtaposition of these two complementary realities, the article concludes, constitutes the dialectic th…
Mindscapes and Science Theories [and Comments and Reply]
Four causal metatypes in science theories correspond to four cognitive/cogitative/perceptual types which vary from individual to individual. In any given culture, all individual types exist, but their percentage distribution varies from culture to culture. The four metatypes are (1) nonreciprocal causality (either probabilistic or deterministic), (2) independent events as most basic, (3) reciprocal causal loops, change-counteracting (either proba…
The Human Mirror: Material and Spatial Images of Man
Poetics in the Field and on the Page
Poetry, as a special language, is particularly suited for those special, strange, even mys terious moments when bits and pieces suddenly coalesce. These moments arrive with a sharp poignancy in the field, when the ethnographer, away from home and in a strange culture, has a heightened sense of the frailty of being human. In such a sense, poetry ap pears to be a way of communicating instances when we feel truth has shown its face. Fi nally, poetry…
Country-level factors in a failing relationship with nature: Nature connectedness as a key metric for a sustainable future
Climate change and biodiversity loss show that the human–nature relationship is failing. That relationship can be measured through the construct of nature connectedness which is a key factor in pro-environmental behaviours and mental well-being. Country-level indicators of extinction of nature experience, consumption and commerce, use and control of nature and negativistic factors were selected. An exploratory analysis of the relationship between…
The magic of the mundane: The vulnerable web of connections between urban nature and wellbeing
The Poetics of a Resurrection: Re-Seeing 30 Years of Change in a Colombian Community and in the Anthropological Enterprise
Anthropological Studies in the American South: Review and Directions [and Comments and Review]
Although anthropological studies in the American South have been conducted in the past few decades, we find that there is a growth of interest in this region recently. Because of the decrease in funding for anthropological research in other countries, combined with the attitudes anthropologists are more frequently encountering from peoples in other cultures, anthropological research has increasingly focused on subcultures and regions in North Ame…
The Image of Christ in Spanish America As a Model for Suffering: An Exploratory Note
Holy Week in San Pedro, Colombia, a small town near the bustling city of Cali, begins with a procession that commemorates Jesus' triumphal march into Jerusalem. The week climaxes on Holy Friday with processions and rites which act out Christ's crucifixion and death. The remaining days of Saturday and Sunday, days that ostensibly glorify Christ's victory over death, evoke little enthusiasm; only the priest and a few hard-core faithful trudge throu…
The Significance of the "Hole" Community in Anthropological Studies1
Communities of complex cultures are residential expressions of national institutions and of total socio-cultural organization. The small, rural community of a complex culture is a complement to the large city. Unlike Indian and traditional peasant communities, the "hole" community is closely embedded in the larger society; its customs and ceremonies are those found in the city, but they are thinned out and made unimpressive by poverty. The presen…
Voices of Migrants: Rural-Urban Migration in Costa Rica. Paul Kutsche
On “The Superorganic in American Cultural Geography”
Culture and the Struggle to be Human
La ville aux îles, la ville dans l'île: Basse-Terre et Pointe-á-Pitre, Guadeloupe, 1650-1820
In this handsome, sturdy edition, Anne Pérotin-Dumon impressively covers the literature in English, French, and Spanish and asks us to reconsider the applicability of the “plantation model”—which stresses the pivotal role of the colonial sugarcane complex in structuring life and land—to the complexities of Antillean life. True, “plantation society,” as a socioeconomic structure based on enslaved Africans, Europeans owners, and large-scale product…
The Anthro Writes a Day
More than once, here and elsewhere, we have asked, What do we, ethnographers, do when we write? The author's guess is that ethnographers commit themselves to the page and there, on the page, search the between of an ethnographer's on-the-ground experience and a reader's at-the-desk understanding. Here is a day's search from Colombia in 1992
Blurring the Line between Fact and Fiction: A War of Witches: A Journey into the Underworld of the Contemporary Aztecs . Timothy J. Knab.: Enigma Variations: A Novel . Richard Price and Sally Price
Community Participation in Health: The Politics of Primary Health Care in Costa Rica
San Pedro, Colombia: Small Town in a Developing Society
The Anthro in Cali
Writing Poetry and Doing Ethnography: Aesthetics and Observation on the Page and in the Field
DNA or God
The Significance of the "Hole" Community in Anthropological Studies1
Communities of complex cultures are residential expressions of national institutions and of total socio-cultural organization. The small, rural community of a complex culture is a complement to the large city. Unlike Indian and traditional peasant communities, the "hole" community is closely embedded in the larger society; its customs and ceremonies are those found in the city, but they are thinned out and made unimpressive by poverty. The presen…
Colombia: The Political Dimension of Change. R obert H. D ix
Additional Clarification about a"Disadvantaged" Community
Archeology: Urban Planning in Pre-Columbian America. Jorge Hardoy
Ethnology: Familia y Cultura en Colombia: Tipologías, Funciones y dinámica de la familia. Manifestaciones Múltiples a través del mosaico cultural y sus estructuras sociales . Virginia GutiÉRREZ DE Pin…
The Image of Christ in Spanish America As a Model for Suffering: An Exploratory Note
Holy Week in San Pedro, Colombia, a small town near the bustling city of Cali, begins with a procession that commemorates Jesus' triumphal march into Jerusalem. The week climaxes on Holy Friday with processions and rites which act out Christ's crucifixion and death. The remaining days of Saturday and Sunday, days that ostensibly glorify Christ's victory over death, evoke little enthusiasm; only the priest and a few hard-core faithful trudge throu…
Development and Change: Subversion and Social Change in Colombia. Orlando Fals Borda
San Pedro, Colombia: Small Town in a Developing Society
Religion: Religion and the Solid South. Samuel S. Hill, JR., with Edgar T. THOMPSON, Anne Firor SCOTT, CHARLES Hudson, and Edwin S. Gaustad
General, Applied, and Theoretical: Image and Environment: Cognitive Mapping and Spatial Behavior . Roger M. DOWNS and David STEA
The Human Mirror: Material and Spatial Images of Man
Anthropologist-the Myth Teller1
The meaning of the anthropological movement comes from the sense of mission created out of the ethnographer's encounter with his alter, the informant. The traditional pattern of ethnographer-informant relations, in which the informant was the man of wisdom and the ethnographer his most briliant student, was permeated with a sense of rightness expressed in the morality of cultural relativism. Changes in the personnel who become the ethnographer an…
Communications
Another Look at the Human Mirror
"ANOTHER LOOK AT THE HUMAN MIRROR ." , 66(3), p. 486 Notes 1 Dan Stanislawski, review of Miles Richardson, ed., The Human Mirror: Material and Spatial Images of Man, Annals, Association of American Geographers, Vol. 65 (1975), pp. 474–76
Culture and the Struggle to be Human
The God-curse
Anthropological Studies in the American South: Review and Directions [and Comments and Review]
Although anthropological studies in the American South have been conducted in the past few decades, we find that there is a growth of interest in this region recently. Because of the decrease in funding for anthropological research in other countries, combined with the attitudes anthropologists are more frequently encountering from peoples in other cultures, anthropological research has increasingly focused on subcultures and regions in North Ame…
Panchimalco: Investigación sociológica
DNA or God
Luncheon In Honor of David Bidney; Peace: A Conservative View; The Impossible Possibility: A Reply to Paul Erickson; Notes of Interest and Intention
Mindscapes and Science Theories [and Comments and Reply]
Four causal metatypes in science theories correspond to four cognitive/cogitative/perceptual types which vary from individual to individual. In any given culture, all individual types exist, but their percentage distribution varies from culture to culture. The four metatypes are (1) nonreciprocal causality (either probabilistic or deterministic), (2) independent events as most basic, (3) reciprocal causal loops, change-counteracting (either proba…
Mead, Symbol and Freedom
On “The Superorganic in American Cultural Geography”
Being-in-the-Market Versus Being-in-the-Plaza: Material culture and the construction of social reality in Spanish America
This article describes how the people of Cartago, Costa Rica-compelled, like each of us, to create-incorporate the material culture of their town's market and plaza into social situations. In so doing, they move from the physical reality of simply being there to the distinctive social realities of being-in-the-market and being-in-the-plaza. The juxtaposition of these two complementary realities, the article concludes, constitutes the dialectic th…
A Crack in the Mirror: Reflexive Perspectives in Anthropology. JAY Ruby, ed
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