Understanding and encouraging greater nature engagement in Australia: results from a national survey
Interaction with nature has a range of significant health, ecological and economic benefits and a number of governments are implementing policies to increase humans’ engagement with nature. Using a large nationally representative survey sample in Australia, this study provides
a detailed comment on the feasibility of such a policy, as well as contributing to an understanding of the characteristics of individuals who engaged in one or more of five dimensions of nature interaction, namely: nature engagement; conservation participation; nature advocacy; environmentally
friendly purchasing and future engagement with nature conservation. The results indicate that age, income, education, marital status and household structure are all important influences on various types of nature engagement. It is suggested that increasing opportunities for young people to
interact with nature is important, as well as supporting older people's involvement in conservation, plus focusing on the need to target and direct various policies.
Keywords: engagement; environmental behaviour; nature
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: Global Food Studies, Faculty of Professions, Adelaide, University of Adelaide, Australia 2: School of Commerce, Business School, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Publication date: 02 June 2016
- Editorial Board
- Information for Authors
- Subscribe to this Title
- Ingenta Connect is not responsible for the content or availability of external websites
- Access Key
- Free content
- Partial Free content
- New content
- Open access content
- Partial Open access content
- Subscribed content
- Partial Subscribed content
- Free trial content