Have you ever had a memory from childhood that took you back to nature? Maybe it was the smell after the rain, freshly cut grass, or the warmth from of the sun on your skin. How do our experiences of the natural world as children affect us as adults? Are these effects lasting or do we need to ‘top up’ our nature reserves to reap the full benefits that nature has to give? How can we fill our ‘nature cup’ when the demands of day-to-day modern existence can often pull us away from the natural environment?

In this episode we explore all this an more with Human Geographer Melissa Nursey-Bray Deputy Director, Institute of Sustainability, Energy and Resources (ISER), https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/melissa.nursey-bray and Dr Mark Kohler Senior Lecturer School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Medica

l Sciences https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/mark.kohler

Eco Futurists is supported by the Environment Institute https://www.adelaide.edu.au/environment/ at the University of Adelaide http://www.adelaide.edu.au/. 

Learn More: 

School of Psychology https://health.adelaide.edu.au/psychology/

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences https://health.adelaide.edu.au

Wellbeing in Learning and Development Lab (WiLDlab): https://wildlabadelaide.org/.

Youth Symposium on Human Nature Connection in the Anthropocene: https://www.adelaide.edu.au/environment/events/list/2023/11/a-symposium-on-human-nature-connection-in-the-anthropocene

Roots and Shoots Australia: https://rootsandshoots.org.au/. 

Jane Goodall Institute Australia Resource Boxhttps://janegoodall.org.au/australian-programs-resourcebox/

Review Article: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3.10128

Children & Nature Network: https://www.childrenandnature.org/

Institute of Sustainability, Energy and Resources (ISER) https://www.adelaide.edu.au/iser/

Finding the Fab Five https://storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/61ca6f9be4354e808146e47e0a59a7d0

Adaptation Community Environment Research Group (ACE) https://able.adelaide.edu.au/socialsciences/adaptation-community-environment/

Department of Geography, Environment and Population https://able.adelaide.edu.au/socialsciences/departments/department-of-geography-environment-and-population

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Education (ABLE) https://able.adelaide.edu.au

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