Hydrologists turn to nature for restorative lessons

The Restorative Environment: Nature and Human Experience

Early human beings were a part of nature. Over the millennia the gulf between humanity and the natural environment has steadily widened. Now, however, there is growing concern that this gulf has become toogreat, that we have strayed too far for our own good. This shift is due, at least in part, to a change in circumstances. Increasingly, people are confronted by pressures that are inexorably ch...

Biofouling: lessons from nature.

Biofouling is generally undesirable for many applications. An overview of the medical, marine and industrial fields susceptible to fouling is presented. Two types of fouling include biofouling from organism colonization and inorganic fouling from non-living particles. Nature offers many solutions to control fouling through various physical and chemical control mechanisms. Examples include low d...

Ecohydrology--why hydrologists should care.

To the Framingham data, turn, turn, turn.

The Restorative Benefits of Nature: toward an Integrative Framework

Directed attention plays an important role in human information processing; its fatigue, in turn, has farreaching consequences. Attention Restoration Theory provides an analysis of the kinds of experiences that lead to recovery from such fatigue. Natural environments turn out to be particularly rich in the characteristics necessary for restorative experiences. An integrative framework is propos...