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Record W4412983238 · doi:10.1016/j.tfp.2025.100968

The well-being of Homo sapiens in forests: A scoping review of frameworks and indicators

2025· review· en· W4412983238 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueTrees Forests and People · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicUrban Green Space and Health
Canadian institutionsNatural Resources CanadaCanadian Forest ServiceUniversity of British Columbia
FundersNatural Resources Canada
KeywordsWell-beingHomo sapiensPsychologySociologyAnthropologyPsychotherapist

Abstract

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Nature exposure holds the potential to enhance human well-being. However, due to the diversity of disciplines and approaches, planners, managers and decision-makers can face challenges in navigating the supporting literature. This review provides a summary of the frameworks and indicators used to capture the relationship between forests and human well-being, thereby enabling readers to consider human well-being in their work. A scoping review was performed with a systematic approach on Scopus and Web of Science databases. Altogether 130 studies were summarized into thematic categories. The reviewed frameworks point to a variety of aspects of the complex relationship. No gold standard on framework or indicator for forests and well-being exists and the choice can be guided by the practitioner’s needs. However, a number of frameworks could inform forest practitioners about factors that influence how people derive well-being from forests. Practitioners could consider how to increase opportunities for connectedness to nature and social connection in the natural spaces they manage. They could also collaborate with other agencies to increase public knowledge and confidence to engage with nature. Considering barriers and inequality could make the benefits accessible to a wider range of the population. Finally, it is important to consider how to build healthy and beneficial relationships between people and nature. Several articles present tools specifically for forest planners and managers. However, more research is needed to strengthen the causal evidence that most insights build on.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Systematic review · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.681
Threshold uncertainty score0.853

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.308
Teacher spread0.297 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it