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Moxon, Sian, Webb, Justin, Semertzi, Alexandros and Samangooei, Mina (2025) Wild ways: a scoping review on influencing urban-rewilding behaviour in relation to adaptations to private gardens. Cities and Health. ISSN 2374-8834 (In Press)
Rewilding private residential gardens in cities would make an important contribution to addressing the global biodiversity crisis and citizens’ wellbeing. Understanding and influencing urban rewilding behaviour is critical. This paper presents a scoping review of the existing literature on influencing intent-orientated, pro-environmental behaviours with a focus on rewilding in urban gardens, building on the authors’ preceding paper on understanding the behaviour of rewilding in urban gardens. The literature is mapped to assess the state of knowledge and coded using the Behaviour Change Wheel intervention model, to identify the intervention functions (education, training, persuasion, incentivisation, coercion, enablement, modelling, environmental restructuring and restriction) and policy categories (environmental/social planning, communication/marketing, legislation, service provision, regulation, fiscal measures and guidelines) that may influence residents engaging in rewilding activity in their gardens. The results show that although all intervention functions appear, education, training, and enablement are the most cited. Further, while all policy categories are identified as possible strategies to influence urban-rewilding behaviour in private gardens, environmental and social planning, and communication/marketing are the most cited. This body of work has implications for practice and policy aimed at influencing urban rewilding and suggests a need for action by diverse stakeholders across multiple areas to maximise impact.
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