Green Care: A Conceptual Framework - Frisk i naturen

3.2 Mapping the influence of nature: nature as
care and nature as therapy
Figure 3.1, above, shows the broad definitions of green care, however,
interactions with nature can be further subdivided according to how nature
is used or experienced. This provides us with a model which maps the role
of nature within green care itself (Haubenhofer et al, forthcoming). This is
shown in Figure 3.2, below.
Figure 3.2: Green care – mapping the influence of nature.
Mapping the influence of nature – nature as care and therapy
usual work/
working place
in natural
environment
health
promotion
therapy
experiencing natural environment interacting with natural elements
looking at nature + being active in nature + shaping nature +
work
rehabilitation/
sheltered
green
employment
healing gardens/
environments/
landscapes
green exercise
(as treatment)
green exercise
nature therapy,
wilderness therapy
(adapted from Haubenhofer et al, forthcoming)
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social & therapeutic
horticulture
ecotherapy
animal-assisted
interventions
horticultural
therapy
interacting with animals
animalassisted
activities
animal-assisted
therapy
The model positions some of the most common green care interventions
that are the subject of this report. The mapping refers to the interventions’
relationships towards each other; and furthermore, to each intervention’s
own nature-based origin.
The natural environment may be experienced in a number of different
ways but broadly this may be divided into two categories – a ‘passive’
experience of nature (which paradoxically may involve physical activity)
or an interaction with its elements that is fundamental to the activity. Both
of these categories may each be divided into two further options. A natural
care farming