Wild Places, Wild Encounters: Exploring Edinburgh's Living Landscapes

This is a book about reconnecting to nature wherever we find ourselves living and the personal benefits that can ensue. It explores how we can appreciate the natural world on our doorstep in line with the latest research from a range of disciplines, including ecology, outdoor and environmental education, learning for sustainability and mindfulness studies.

There has been a tendency for people to lose contact with nature. The industrial growth society generated a catalogue of ecological disas...