Eike von Lindern

Dialog N – Research and Communication for People Environment and Nature

Being away is considered a key requirement for restoring depleted cognitive resources. However, it is unclear which personenvironment transactions promote or constrain the sense of being away. This study examines whether perceived interdependencies between cognitively demanding and leisure-time settings can reduce the perceived sense of being away....

This in-depth survey of salutogenesis shows the breadth and strengths of this innovative perspective on health promotion, health care, and wellness. Background and historical chapters trace the development of the salutogenic model of health, and flesh out the central concepts, most notably generalized resistance resources and the sense of coherence...

Contact with nature can promote health and well-being through providing opportunities for restoring diminished psychological resources. Among those factors relevant for experiencing restoration are having a sense of being away from stress and daily demands. However, only little is known about how perceived interdependencies (in terms of social, beh...

The present study aims to investigate whether a sense of relatedness to a city helps to broaden understanding of the restorative potential of urban public spaces. Findings based on a sample of German adults (n = 249) confirm that people experience relatedness to a city. The study’s 3 × 3 (built, mixed, natural environment) × (average, livability en...

In this chapter, the authors consider how research on restorative environments can augment research on salutogenesis by calling attention to the dynamics of depletion and renewal of resources needed for the maintenance and promotion of health and well-being and by showing how the sociophysical environment comes into play in people’s ongoing efforts...

Smartphone use, e.g., on social network sites or instant messaging, can impair well-being and is related to clinical phenomena, like depression. Digital detox interventions have been suggested as a solution to reduce negative impacts from smartphone use on outcomes like well-being or social relationships. Digital detox is defined as timeouts from u...

In acht UNESCO Biosphere Reserves (BR) in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz wurde mittels quantitativer Umfragen untersucht, wie Akzeptanz, Identifikation und Engagement hinsichtlich der BR in der lokalen Bevölkerung ausgeprägt sind. Wir diskutieren die Ergebnisse und Unterschiede zwischen den BR. Auf dieser Grundlage erörtern wir Handlungsan...

Private-sector investors could be key players in combatting global land degradation and realising the emerging concept of Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN). To better understand how to incentivize private-sector investors for LDN, we conducted an online-survey of 68 private-sector investors. Structural equation modelling based on the theory of plan...

Items for motives for sustainable investing. (DOCX)

Questionnaire (incl. invitation letter for implicit consent). (PDF)

One of the main tasks of national parks is protecting the natural processes through which diversity is indirectly preserved and promoted. But the contribution of national parks also goes beyond nature conservation and has a potential impact on human health and wellbeing.

Forest is an important element of Swiss landscape, with about 30% of the country covered by it, forming a finely structured patchwork together with water bodies, agricultural land and settlements. It is highly valued by residents as part of their everyday living and recreational environment. The aim of this paper is to provide knowledge about how r...

Das Erleben von Wildnis stellt einen Kontrast zum Erleben anderer Landschaftstypen dar, der sich sowohl im Selbstbericht als auch in den physiologischen Messdaten der Feldstudie zeigt. Aus Perspektive der Attention Restoration Theorie (Kaplan und Kaplan, 1989; Kaplan, 1995) und neueren Entwicklungen , wie zum Beispiel der Theorie der „Settinginterd...

Results from the second visitor survey in the Wildnispark Zürich (Switzerland) (N = 311). Topics focus visiting experiences, motives, perception of the park, activities, need satisfaction, learning aspects, park evaluation, and impacts on health and wellbeing, among others. Results are compared to a previous study undertaken in 2012; and between th...

“Restorative environments” are often seen as a resource for health and wellbeing, and thus provide a counterweight for stressors encountered in daily life. Physical features have been thoroughly addressed in restorative environments research during the last decades, but psychological aspects have received limited attention in this regard. This inte...

Traffic-related exposures may undermine the restorative character of the home, and this may in turn undermine health and residential satisfaction. We addressed this possibility with data for adults residing in a large valley near Innsbruck, Austria (N=572). We joined objective measures of traffic-related sound and air pollutants with reports from d...

Im urbanen Gebiet zwischen den Zürcher Gemeinden Dübendorf und Wallisellen wurde der in den 70er-Jahren kanalisierte Chriesbach in exemplarischer Form revitalisiert. Ziel war es, nicht nur für die Natur, sondern auch für die Menschen einen Mehrwert zu schaffen. Das Erreichen dieser Ziele wurde wissenschaftlich evaluiert, wobei in diesem Artikel der...

The assessment of effects on quality of life, annoyance, and health of transport noise at the community level is less straightforward than, for example, for the work site or for other, more closed acoustic spaces or products emitting noise; the results at the community level are ...

Using inadequate management tools often threatens the natural environment. This study focuses on the example of Swiss recreational fishermen (hereafter called ‘‘anglers’’) as recreational fisheries management stakeholders. In recreational fisheries, fish stocking conducted by anglers has been identified as one important factor associated with decli...

Home is for many a place to recover after a day at work and to find shelter from demands of the outside world. Being at home can thus be regarded as a resource for health and wellbeing. However, it is not always possible for people to ban traffic related disturbances from their home. Consequently, the restorative character of the home may become co...

Die Erlebnisqualität eines Wildnisparkbesuchs entscheidet mit darüber, ob Besucher und Besucherinnen den Park häufiger besuchen und ob sie sich mit den Zielsetzungen des Parks verbunden fühlen und identifizieren können. Damit geht einher, inwieweit die ...

Around 30 % of Switzerland’s surface area is covered with forest and represents an integral part of the population’s everyday landscape. It is, thus, important for politicians and planners at all levels to know how the Swiss population relates to the forest so that they can best promote and maintain the various forest functions and the quality of t...

Für die Erholung ist der Wald eines der wichtigsten Landschaftselemente, denn dort haben wir freien Zugang und können eine sehr naturnahe Umgebung genies-sen, die uns bestmögliche Erholung vom Alltagsstress erlaubt. Doch welche Erwartungen haben wir an den Wald? Weshalb gehen wir tatsächlich hin? Und was ist, wenn viele andere ebenfalls den Wald au...

Fisheries research has discovered that the habitat situation in Swiss running waters, a parasitic fish disease and fisheries management are most likely responsible for declining fish catches in Switzerland. Regarding fisheries management, recreational fishermen (hereafter called anglers) can be considered as main stakeholders in Switzerland, who ac...

Fisheries research has discovered that the habitat situation in Swiss running waters, a parasitic fish disease and fisheries management are most likely responsible for declining fish catches in Switzerland. Regarding fisheries management, recreational fishermen (hereafter called anglers) can be considered as main stakeholders in Switzerland, who ac...