Publication: Organisations that promote eco-human flourishing

Research fellow Komathi Kolandai published a review on organisations that use various engagement with nature to promote wellbeing. 

Kolandai, K., & Harré, N. (2025). Organisations that promote eco-human flourishing. Current Opinion in Psychology, 62, 101998. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.101998 

Increasing emphasis on the interrelatedness of ecological sustainability and human wellbeing (eco-human flourishing) is evident in global initiatives such as the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, initiatives that give greater attention to Indigenous worldviews, and expanding notions of wellbeing in psychology. Our literature search on organisations that promote eco-human flourishing resulted in thirty relevant articles in 2023 or 2024. Organisations were either attempting or achieving eco-human flourishing through green infrastructure, green spaces, nature-based interventions, nature-integrated experiences, ecologically focused business operation models, transformational leadership, and curriculum (in the case of higher education). We offer two reasons for optimism that integrated eco-human flourishing goals will become more normalised among organisations in the near future – one, such integration appeals to the younger generation and two, the increasing scholarship on reciprocal human–nature relationships.