5 nov 2026

Harries, B., Chalmin-Pui, L. S., Gatersleben, B. et al. (2025) ‘Noticing nature: The role of environmental awareness in promoting well-being’, People and Nature, 7. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70113



Environmental presence is not equivalent to environmental attention. The paper investigates how noticing nature relates to well-being, shifting the analytical question from the distribution of green elements alone to the perceptual encounters through which they become meaningful. For walking-based research, the distinction matters because visual availability, attention and experienced benefit cannot be assumed to coincide. It joins environmental psychology to the everyday phenomenology of public space.