Human–nature connectedness is hailed as a potential remedy for the current sustainability crisis, yet it is also deeply affected by it. Here, we perform a comprehensive assessment of human–nature connectedness that includes material, experiential, cognitive, emotional, and philosophical dimensions. We show that these dimensions of human–nature connectedness are strongly interlinked, especially via emotional and experiential connectedness. Our findings showcase a cross-country comparison of four focal landscapes in Transylvania, Romania and Lower Saxony, Germany, which represent gradients from minor and gradual to relatively major and rapid landscape change. Based on content analysis of 73 in-depth interviews, we show that landscape change was seen by the interviewees to have a strong, and often negative, influence on multiple dimensions of human–nature connectedness. Focusing only on isolated dimensions of human–nature connectedness could inadvertently exacerbate the sustainability crisis because unawareness about relationships between dimensions of connectedness may lead to false predictions regarding policy implications.

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景观变化对人与自然联系多维度的影响

人与自然的联系被誉为当前可持续发展危机的潜在补救措施，但也深受其影响。在这里，我们对人与自然的联系进行了全面评估，包括物质、经验、认知、情感和哲学维度。我们表明，人与自然联系的这些维度是紧密相连的，尤其是通过情感和经验联系。我们的研究结果展示了对罗马尼亚特兰西瓦尼亚和德国下萨克森州的四个焦点景观的跨国比较，这些景观代表了从轻微和渐进到相对较大和快速的景观变化的梯度。基于对 73 次深度访谈的内容分析，我们表明受访者认为景观变化具有强烈的、通常是负面的、对人与自然联系的多个维度的影响。只关注人与自然连通性的孤立维度可能会无意中加剧可持续性危机，因为不了解连通性维度之间的关系可能会导致对政策影响的错误预测。