The "healthy dose" of nature: A cautionary tale
The "healthy dose" of nature: A cautionary tale
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大自然的“健康剂量”：一个警示故事
DOI：
10.1111/gec3.12415
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Bell S
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跨学科的兴趣在理解是否、如何以及为什么花时间与自然相处有助于人类的健康和福祉，最近促使人们努力确定一个理想的健康剂量的自然；以特定的频率和时间接触特定种类的自然环境。这些努力建立在长期以来试图以某种方式给自然开处方的基础上，最近的形式是所谓的“绿色处方”。在这篇重要的讨论论文中，我们借鉴了健康和文化地理学领域的关键例子，以鼓励对这种还原主义剂量反应框架的价值进行更深入和更批判性的反思。通过突出人们动态自然遭遇的相关涌现特性，我们认为，对于许多健康自然互动偏离统计平均或“正常”存在方式的个人和群体来说，这种努力可能既是虚幻的，也是潜在的排斥。我们建议，借鉴后人类主义的社会实践理论，朝着更人性化的健康和福祉的替代方法努力是有价值的。我们提出了两个实践例子-海滩和公民科学-来展示关注社会实践如何更好地满足人们在日常生活中概念化，体现和解释自然的多样化和动态方式。最后，我们将反思为促进对具体差异和多样性的更大尊重所需要的更广泛的社会变革。
Growing cross‐disciplinary interest in understanding if, how, and why time spent with nature can contribute to human health and well‐being has recently prompted efforts to identify an ideal healthy dose of nature; exposure to a specific type of nature at a specified frequency and duration. These efforts build on longstanding attempts to prescribe nature in some way, most recently in the form of so‐called “green prescriptions.” In this critical discussion paper, we draw on key examples from within the fields of health and cultural geography to encourage deeper and more critical reflection on the value of such reductionist dose‐response frameworks. By foregrounding the relationally emergent qualities of people's dynamic nature encounters, we suggest such efforts may be both illusory and potentially exclusionary for the many individuals and groups whose healthy nature interactions diverge from the statistical average or “normal” way of being. We suggest value in working towards alternative more‐than‐human approaches to health and well‐being, drawing on posthumanist theories of social practice. We present two practice examples—beach‐going and citizen science—to demonstrate how a focus on social practices can better cater for the diverse and dynamic ways in which people come to conceptualise, embody, and interpret nature in their everyday lives. We close by reflecting on the wider societal transformations required to foster greater respect for embodied difference and diversity.