Environmental Psychology Approaches Within the Relationship of Nature and Health in terms of Landscape Architecture

Year 2021, Volume: 18 Issue: 42, 5781 - 5802, 13.10.2021

Elif Karaca Mehmet Karaca

https://doi.org/10.26466/opus.910271

Abstract

For a while, today’s modern people have been struggling with various problems which threaten their health including climate change, water and food scarcities, depression etc. Also, most recently, they have been faced with a more complicated- unfamiliar problem, pandemic. And in the future, what kind of different problems to be faced to threaten their health cannot be predicted. This situation underlines boldly the obligation to support people health before then it has been lost. And, at the point of supporting health, the phenomenon of nature emerges. Nature offers low-cost, non-intrusive solutions for human health and well-being, and the landscape architecture profession also plays an important role in enhancing the relationship with nature. Today, many studies are emphasizing the positive effects of exposure to nature on health and the relationship between nature and health is generally explained within the scope of various theories put forward by environmental psychology. Within the scope of this study, initially, the relationship between nature and health is reviewed in the context of theories put forward by environmental psychology. Subsequently, suggestions are offered regarding the design processes, assessing design approaches supporting health in the aspect of landscape architecture which has an important role to increase the interaction with nature.

Keywords

Health, Nature, Landscape Architecture, Environmental Psychology

Doğa ve Sağlık İlişkisini Ele Alan Çevre Psikolojisi Yaklaşımlarının Peyzaj Mimarlığı Açısından Değerlendirilmesi

Abstract

Günümüz insanı bir süredir iklim değişikliği, su ve yiyecek kıtlığı, depresyon gibi sağlığını tehdit eden pek çok problemle başa çıkmaya çalışmaktadır. Yakın bir zamanda ise ona hiç tanıdık olmayan çok daha karmaşık bir problem olan “pandemi” ile karşı karşıya kalmıştır ve ileride de sağlığını tehdit edebilecek ne tür farklı bir problemle karşılaşacağını tahmin edememektedir. Bu durum insanların sağlığın bozulmadan önce desteklenmesi gerektiğinin farkına çok daha fazla varmasına neden olmuştur. Sağlığın desteklenmesi noktasında ise karşımıza “doğa” kavramı çıkmaktadır. Doğa, insan sağlığı ve refahı için düşük maliyetli, müdahaleci olmayan çözümler sunmakta ve peyzaj mimarlığı mesleği de doğa ile ilişkiyi artırmada önemli bir rol oynamaktadır. Günümüzde doğaya maruz kalmanın sağlık üzerindeki olumlu etkilerini gösteren çok sayıda çalışma bulunmakta ve doğa ile sağlık arasındaki ilişki genellikle çevre psikolojisinin ortaya koyduğu çeşitli teoriler kapsamında açıklanmaktadır. Bu çalışma kapsamında da öncelikle doğa ve sağlık arasındaki ilişki çevre psikolojisinin ortaya koyduğu teoriler çerçevesinde ele alınmıştır. Daha sonra sağlığı destekleyen tasarım yaklaşımları doğayla etkileşimin artırılmasında anahtar rolü olan peyzaj mimarlığı açısından değerlendirilerek tasarım süreçlerine yönelik önerilerde bulunulmuştur.

Keywords

Sağlık, Doğa, Peyzaj Mimarlığı, Çevre Psikolojisi

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