Background: At a time of increasing disconnectedness from nature, scientific interest in the
potential health benefits of nature contact has grown. Research in recent decades has …

Consumers have historically shown an inclination to purchase plants that enhance their
quality of life, meaning they will purchase items that positively influence their social …

Stress reduction through contact with nature is well established, but far less is known about
the contribution of contact parameters–duration, frequency, and nature quality. This study …

Landscape connectivity is critical for ecosystem health and biodiversity conservation, yet
urbanization is increasing habitat fragmentation. Green corridors that connect isolated …

With the growth of urbanization and the increasingly hectic pace of life, exposure to urban
nature within blue-green infrastructure is greatly impacting human health and well-being …

The beneficial association between nature contact and human health is often explained with
psycho-evolutionary frameworks such as stress reduction theory and the savanna …

Interactions among visual attributes shape people's landscape preferences. Insufficient
understanding of the interactions often leads to inconsistent explanations of the main …

This study investigated the effects of different natural environments on attention restoration
and creativity. To compare the restorative benefits based on the degrees of perceived …

The interactive role of the ecological, architectural, biophilic, and sensory qualities of
outdoor and indoor spaces in the restorative experiences of urban inhabitants is little known …

Previous research has investigated ways to quantify visual information of a scene in terms of
a visual processing hierarchy, ie, making sense of visual environment by segmentation and …