Summary

In this episode of The Wilder Podcast, hosts Chloe and Tom explore the concept of nature connection, discussing its importance for mental health and wellbeing, the barriers that prevent it, and the pathways to rekindling our relationship with the natural world. They explore the significance of understanding nature connection, particularly among adolescents, and stress the need for systemic change to encourage deeper engagement with nature. The conversation underscores the reciprocal relationship between people and the environment, calling for a shift in language and policy to strengthen nature connection across society.

Prof Miles Richardson's books

• Website
• The Blackbird's Song
• Reconnection

Nature Connection Research Group

Takeaways

• Nature connection is vital for mental health and wellbeing.
• The UK ranks low in both nature connectedness and biodiversity.
• Urbanisation and technology are major contributors to disconnection from nature.
• Emotional engagement and education can foster stronger nature connection.
• Adolescents often experience a notable dip in nature connection during their teenage years.
• Research shows a strong correlation between nature connection and pro-environmental behaviour.
• Engaging the senses is a powerful way to deepen nature connection.
• Community involvement plays a key role in successful nature restoration projects.
• Nature connection should be seen as a reciprocal relationship.
• Systemic changes are essential to improving access to nature for everyone.

Chapters

00:00 – Introduction

10:49 – Understanding Nature Connection

16:01 – Defining Nature Connection

21:25 – Nature Connection and Wellbeing

32:55 – Barriers to Nature Connection

45:43 – Pathways to Nature Connection

50:48 – Engaging Adolescents in Nature Connection

55:54 – Reflections and Future Directions

we're really often asked, what is the big thing about interoperability?

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First, it's a word that is super complex for a French person to pronounce.

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but aside from that, when you have successfully achieved speaking that word and saying it

correctly, why is important in there?

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Well, there are a couple of factors.

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And you need to look at the global view of the evolution of these simulation tools that we

use every day.

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We talked about the silos, we talked about the fact that you had either accurate or good

looking in the ancient time of simulation.

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You also had three big silos between live, virtual and constructive simulations that were

requiring different type of tools.

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And these different type of tools had different capabilities in different type of

exercises and had different...

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roles in the ecosystem.

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Some tools were experts at building sensor data model.

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Some others were experts at assessing the ballistic success of an operation.

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And some others were moving a lot of pawns on a map.

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These tools, which all of them had their own specialties, and historically,

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They were not connected together, right?

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So we had to glue them together.

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And these glues were ugly.

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We had to build new glues for new programs and new glues for new projects.

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And it was really painful for the developers.

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Over the years, the community created a way to have the systems to talk to each other.

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A little bit like in the real world between the nations.

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When we go to operations together, we invented new ways to communicate together.

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to have the same ways to understand each other's doctrines, to understand each other's

comms.

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Well, what happened in the real world, this interoperability of systems, we reproduce in

the simulation world, right?

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We have interoperability of simulation systems.

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What it means is that we have these different tools that become federated into a global

world, and this federation, this global world,

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is allowing all the systems to speak the same language even if they don't come from the

same vendor, from the same provider, right?

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So you can have a software created somewhere in Turkey talking super well with a software

developed somewhere in Czech Republic talking super well to a software created in the UK.

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And all these tools, they talk together without having to have the owners of these tools

to agree on something before.

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they all support the same interoperability protocol.

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That's why they're so important, these protocols.

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The words interoperability protocols that we use in simulation are inspired from the real

life, from the real needs of operations when we decide to work together.

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That's simply what it means.

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And nowadays, with the strong push that we see to break the silos, the historical silos

that we had,

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between live, virtual and constructive, this need to communicate and to work together

better is more important than ever.