Rosalind Franklin Society Proudly Announces the 2022 Award Recipient for Ecopsychology

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EcopsychologyVol. 15, No. 3 AnnouncementFree AccessRosalind Franklin Society Proudly Announces the 2022 Award Recipient for EcopsychologyNatalia Calderón Moya-MéndezNatalia Calderón Moya-MéndezRadboud University, Nijmegen, The NetherlandsSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:19 Sep 2023https://doi.org/10.1089/eco.2023.29009.rfs2022AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB Permissions & CitationsPermissionsDownload CitationsTrack CitationsAdd to favorites Back To Publication ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail The Rosalind Franklin Society (RFS), in partnership with Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, enthusiastically congratulate our distinguished recipient of the 2022 annualRFS Award in Sciencefor this journal, which recognizes the outstanding research and published work of women and underrepresented minority scientists, physicians, and engineers.Natalia Calderón Moya-Méndez, Wessel Ganzevoort, Rob Lenders, and Riyan J.G. van den Born, “Going Beyond the Instrumental View on Nature and the Human–Nature Relationship: Visions of Nature of the Metropolitan Population of Lima, Peru,” Ecopsychology 14, no. 3 (September 2022): 163–175, http://doi.org/10.1089/eco.2021.0060.AbstractWe explore how human–nature connection and well-being in an urban context relate to nature in general, but with special attention to “values” of nature beyond the immediate city settings. We apply the “visions of nature” framework through a quantitative survey (N = 362) held among the citizens of Lima, Peru to better understand their ideas, values and images of relationships with nature. Furthermore, we explore whether well-being is reflected in values attributed to nature. We found images of both wild and domesticated nature, which different groups of respondents assigned with divergent levels of naturalness. Differences appear to be linked to respondents' generational contexts and life experiences. The images of relationship that most respondents adhered to (Practical and Ecocentric steward) entail a sense of responsibility toward nature, motivated by the traditional instrumental values but certainly also by intrinsic and relational values of nature. We argue that citizens adhering to those images of relationship experience a form of nature connection with nature beyond the urban context and recommend that well-being research should not only address the significance of nearby urban nature, but also of extra-urban nature.BiosketchNatalia Calderón Moya-Méndez (1978) studied biology at Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima, Peru. In 2004 she became a research fellow at Kew Royal Botanic Gardens (UK) and defended her master's thesis in 2006. From 2011 to 2019 she was a lecturer in sciences for courses at Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. In 2016 she became an external PhD student at the Institute for Science in Society, Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen. Most of her publications are related to nature conservation in Peruvian landscapes. Her current research focuses on science education and visions of nature in Peru as part of her external PhD at Radboud University.FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 15Issue 3Sep 2023 InformationCopyright 2023, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishersTo cite this article:Natalia Calderón Moya-Méndez.Rosalind Franklin Society Proudly Announces the 2022 Award Recipient for Ecopsychology.Ecopsychology.Sep 2023.205-205.http://doi.org/10.1089/eco.2023.29009.rfs2022Published in Volume: 15 Issue 3: September 19, 2023PDF download