Several urban landscape planning solutions have been introduced around the world to find a balance between developing urban spaces, maintaining and restoring biodiversity, and enhancing quality of human life. Our global mini-review, combined with analysis of big data collected from Google Trends at global scale, reveals the importance of enjoying day-to-day contact with nature and engaging in such activities as nature observation and identification and gardening for the mental well-being of humans during the COVID-19 pandemic. Home-based activities, such as watching birds from one’s window, identifying species of plants and animals, backyard gardening, and collecting information about nature for citizen science projects, were popular during the first lockdown in spring 2020, when people could not easily venture out of their homes. In our mini-review, we found 37 articles from 28 countries with a total sample of 114,466 people. These papers suggest that home-based engagement with nature was an entertaining and pleasant distraction that helped preserve mental well-being during a challenging time. According to Google Trends, interest in such activities increased during lockdown compared to the previous five years. Millions of people worldwide are chronically or temporarily confined to their homes and neighborhoods because of illness, childcare chores, or elderly care responsibility, which makes it difficult for them to travel far to visit such places as national parks, created through land sparing, where people go to enjoy nature and relieve stress. This article posits that for such people, living in an urban landscape designed to facilitate effortless contact with small natural areas is a more effective way to receive the mental health benefits of contact with nature than visiting a sprawling nature park on rare occasions.

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世界各地已经推出了多种城市景观规划解决方案，以在发展城市空间、维护和恢复生物多样性以及提高人类生活质量之间找到平衡。我们的全球迷你评论，结合对全球范围内谷歌趋势收集的大数据的分析，揭示了享受与自然的日常接触以及参与自然观察和识别以及园艺等活动对心理健康的重要性。 COVID-19 大流行期间的人类。在 2020 年春季第一次封锁期间，人们无法轻易外出，以家庭为基础的活动很受欢迎，例如从窗户看鸟、识别动植物物种、后院园艺以及为公民科学项目收集有关自然的信息。他们的家。在我们的小型评论中，我们发现了来自 28 个国家的 37 篇文章，样本总数为 114,466 人。这些论文表明，在家与大自然接触是一种有趣且令人愉快的消遣，有助于在充满挑战的时期保持心理健康。根据谷歌趋势，与前五年相比，封锁期间对此类活动的兴趣有所增加。全世界有数百万人因疾病、照顾孩子或照顾老人的责任而长期或暂时被限制在自己的家中和社区，这使得他们很难长途跋涉去参观国家公园等地方，这些地方是通过节约土地而创建的，人们在那里去享受大自然，缓解压力。这篇文章认为对于这样的人来说，

根据 COVID-19 封锁经验认识到与大自然近距离接触对心理健康的重要性这篇文章首先发表在《生态与社会》上。