Wellbeing and Self-Transformation in Natural Landscapes (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

This book explores how natural landscapes are linked to positive mental wellbeing. While natural landscapes have long been represented and portrayed as transformative, the link to mental wellbeing is an area that researchers are still aiming to comprehend. Accompanying five groups of people to rural Scotland, the author considers individual, external and group motivations for journeying from urban environments, examining in what ways these excursions are personally and socially transformative. Far more than traversing mere physical boundaries, this book illustrates the new challenges, experiences, territories and cultures provided by these excursions, firmly anchored in the Scottish countryside. In doing so, the author questions the extent to which people's own narratives link to the perception that the outdoors are positively transformative - and what indeed does have the power to influence transformation. Grounded in extensive qualitative research, this contemplative and ethnographic book will be of interest and value to students and scholars of the outdoors and its connection to wellbeing.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	September 2018
First published:	2019
Authors:	Rebecca Crowther
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	308
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-97672-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmentalist thought & ideology Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Physical geography > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	3-319-97672-9
Barcode:	9783319976723

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