Project overview

The mental health and well-being benefits derived from nature are a globally important cultural ecosystem service.

But the way in which this happens - and specific contributions of different elements of biodiversity - are not well understood.

Sound plays a key role in our experience of nature, with bird song in particular providing the soundtrack to time spent outdoors.

Part of the wider UKRI Economics of Biodiversity programme, this project combines ecoacoustics with approaches from environmental psychology and economics to better understand the relationships between landscape structure, soundscape complexity, perceptions of soundscape quality, derived mental health and well-being benefits, and economic values.

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Themes

Modelling soundscape complexity.

Quantifying well-being impacts of soundscape complexity.

Economic valuation of soundscape complexity.

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