Friday 24 July 17:15
- 18:45
Hall: 24 - Room 3 SPT
Chair and Presenter:
Mosca Oriana
Division: Division 4: Environmental Psychology
Across Europe, environmental change is reshaping both landscapes and everyday life. From coastal deltas facing increasing flood and salinization risks to cities experimenting with nature-based urban regeneration, adaptation and co-evolution is not only a technical challenge but also a deeply social, cultural, and psychological process. This symposium brings together interdisciplinary research that explores how people experience, interpret, and engage with green and blue spaces shaped by climate adaptation and urban transformation. Integrating perspectives from social and environmental psychology, geography, sociology and urban planning, the symposium foregrounds people-centered approaches to environmental design and governance. The five contributions share a common focus on identity, emotions, values, and lived experience as key drivers of acceptance, use, and care of adaptive infrastructures and nature-based solutions. Methodologically, the papers showcase innovative tools, from mixed qualitative-quantitative approaches and walk-based digital platforms to psycho-physiological and cartographic mapping, that capture how people relate to changing environments in situ.
Mosca and coll. introduced CitySense, a web app designed to capture users' psycho-social experiences in regenerated urban spaces before and after interventions.
Boffi and coll. assessed the psychological effects of an NBS-based redesign of a Milan public square through pre- and post-occupancy evaluations using emotional, physiological, and georeferenced data.
Ariccio and coll. explore how flood-related identity in Zeeland influences risk perception, trust, and acceptance of traditional and nature-based adaptation measures.
Mishra and coll. examine how participatory arts-based practices and digital tools in the COEVOLVERS Living Labs support transformative, co-evolutionary learning in the co-creation of Nature-Based Solutions across Europe.
Hiedanpää explores metamodern planning theory as a response to persistent urban challenges such as biodiversity loss, climate change, and gentrification, bridging modern and postmodern approaches through multispecies and eco-social principles.
