Kathryn WIlliams

Conceptualising creativity benefits of nature experience: Attention restoration and mind wandering as complementary processes

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 10-2018

DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVP.2018.08.005

Appraising the psychological benefits of green roofs for city residents and workers

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 08-2019

DOI: 10.1016/J.UFUG.2019.126399

Applying social research: How research knowledge is shaped and changed for use in a bushfire management organisation

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 04-2020

DOI: 10.1016/J.ENVSCI.2020.01.021

Drivers of diversity and tree cover in gardens, parks and streetscapes in an Australian city

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 2012

DOI: 10.1016/J.UFUG.2012.03.005

Understanding the relationship between social change and its impacts: The experience of rural land use change in south-eastern Australia

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 10-2012

DOI: 10.1016/J.JRURSTUD.2012.05.002

40-second green roof views sustain attention: The role of micro-breaks in attention restoration

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 06-2015

DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVP.2015.04.003

Linking green micro-breaks with mood and performance: Mediating roles of coherence and effort

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 12-2018

DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVP.2018.10.010

Ten years of greening a wide brown land: A synthesis of Australian green roof research and roadmap forward

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 07-2021

DOI: 10.1016/J.UFUG.2021.127179

Social licence to operate and forestry - An introduction

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Date: 09-2016

DOI: 10.1093/FORESTRY/CPW036

Water and Meadow Views Both Afford Perceived but Not Performance-Based Attention Restoration: Results From Two Experimental Studies

Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

Date: 25-04-2022

DOI: 10.3389/FPSYG.2022.809629

Abstract: Attention Restoration Theory proposes that exposure to natural environments helps to restore attention. For sustained attention—the ongoing application of focus to a task, the effect appears to be modest, and the underlying mechanisms of attention restoration remain unclear. Exposure to nature may improve attention performance through many means: modulation of alertness and one’s connection to nature were investigated here, in two separate studies. In both studies, participants performed the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) before and immediately after viewing a meadow, ocean, or urban image for 40 s, and then completed the Perceived Restorativeness Scale. In Study 1 ( n = 68), an eye-tracker recorded the participants’ tonic pupil diameter during the SARTs, providing a measure of alertness. In Study 2 ( n = 186), the effects of connectedness to nature on SART performance and perceived restoration were studied. In both studies, the image viewed was not associated with participants’ sustained attention performance both nature images were perceived as equally restorative, and more restorative than the urban image. The image viewed was not associated with changes in alertness. Connectedness to nature was not associated with sustained attention performance, but it did moderate the relation between viewing the natural images and perceived restorativeness participants reporting a higher connection to nature also reported feeling more restored after viewing the nature, but not the urban, images. Dissociation was found between the physiological and behavioral measures and the perceived restorativeness of the images. The results suggest that restoration associated with nature exposure is not associated with modulation of alertness but is associated with connectedness with nature.

Public response to plantation forestry on farms in south-western Victoria

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 2003

DOI: 10.1080/00049158.2003.10674896

Birds and Beaches, Dogs and Leashes: Dog Owners' Sense of Obligation to Leash Dogs on Beaches in Victoria, Australia

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 31-03-2009

DOI: 10.1080/10871200802649799

A cultivated environment: Exploring the global distribution of plants in gardens, parks and streetscapes

Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Date: 12-11-2012

DOI: 10.1007/S11252-011-0215-2

Harnessing diversity in gardens through individual decision makers

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 04-2010

DOI: 10.1016/J.TREE.2009.12.006

Harnessing diversity in gardens through individual decision makers

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 04-2010

DOI: 10.1016/J.TREE.2009.11.006

Comparing the effect of mindful and other engagement interventions in nature on attention restoration, nature connection, and mood

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 06-2022

DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVP.2022.101813

Plant traits link people's plant preferences to the composition of their gardens

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 03-2012

DOI: 10.1016/J.LANDURBPLAN.2011.11.023

Mindful engagement, psychological restoration, and connection with nature in constrained nature experiences

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 2022

DOI: 10.1016/J.LANDURBPLAN.2021.104263

Core values underpin the attributes of forests that matter to people

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Date: 25-07-2018

DOI: 10.1093/FORESTRY/CPY022

‘Letting my mind run wild’: Exploring the role of individual engagement in nature experiences

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 05-2022

DOI: 10.1016/J.UFUG.2022.127566

Green micro-breaks: Viewing workplace nature improves mood and performance

Publisher: Academy of Management

Date: 08-2017

DOI: 10.5465/AMBPP.2017.247

Living roof preference is influenced by plant characteristics and diversity

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 02-2014

DOI: 10.1016/J.LANDURBPLAN.2013.09.011

Social and Ecological Dimensions of Urban Conservation Grasslands and Their Management through Prescribed Burning and Woody Vegetation Removal

Publisher: MDPI AG

Date: 24-04-2020

DOI: 10.3390/SU12083461

Abstract: Natural grasslands are threatened globally. In south-eastern Australia, remnants of critically endangered natural grasslands are increasingly being isolated in urban areas. Urbanisation has led to reduced fire frequency and woody plant encroachment in some patches. Grasslands are currently being managed under the assumption that desirable management actions to address these threats (prescribed burning and removing woody vegetation) (1) lead to improved conservation outcomes and (2) are restricted by negative public attitudes. In this study, we tested these two assumptions in the context of native grassland conservation reserves in Melbourne, Australia. Firstly, we investigated differences in species and functional trait composition between patches that had been recently burnt, patches that were unburnt and patches subject to woody vegetation encroachment. We found that the functional traits of species converged in areas subject to woody plant encroachment and areas frequently disturbed by fire. Burning promoted native species, and patches of woody plants supressed the dominant grass, providing a wider range of habitat conditions. Secondly, we surveyed 477 residents living adjacent to these grassland conservation reserves to measure values, beliefs and attitudes and the acceptance of prescribed burning and removing woody vegetation. We found conflict in people’s attitudes to grasslands, with both strongly positive and strongly negative attitudes expressed. The majority of residents found prescribed burning an acceptable management practice (contrary to expectations) and removing trees and shrubs from grasslands to be unacceptable. Both cognitive factors (values and beliefs) and landscape features were important in influencing these opinions. This research provides some guidance for managing urban grassland reserves as a social–ecological system, showing that ecological management, community education and engagement and landscape design features can be integrated to influence social and ecological outcomes.

Psychological values and cues as a basis for developing socially relevant criteria and indicators for forest management

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 05-2017

DOI: 10.1016/J.FORPOL.2017.01.018

A collaborative learning model for a flourishing green roofs, walls and facades sector: Exploring two major Australian cities

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 12-2022

DOI: 10.1016/J.CITIES.2022.103884

Preference for and performance of some Australian native plants grown as hedges

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 05-2008

DOI: 10.1016/J.UFUG.2008.02.002

Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0211170

Start Date: 03-2002

End Date: 12-2005

Amount: $110,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0561751

Start Date: 02-2006

End Date: 06-2010

Amount: $288,040.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0990704

Start Date: 12-2009

End Date: 12-2012

Amount: $380,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP120200795

Start Date: 01-2013

End Date: 12-2016

Amount: $204,676.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP160100439

Start Date: 12-2016

End Date: 12-2020

Amount: $351,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council