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Green Exercise

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Green Exercise book

Linking Nature, Health and Well-being

Green Exercise

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Green Exercise book

Linking Nature, Health and Well-being
Edited ByJo Barton, Rachel Bragg, Carly Wood, Jules Pretty
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 27 June 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315750941
Pages 228
eBook ISBN 9781315750941
Subjects Built Environment, Development Studies, Environment & Agriculture, Environment and Sustainability, Geography, Health and Social Care, Sports and Leisure
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Barton, J., Bragg, R., Wood, C., & Pretty, J. (Eds.). (2016). Green Exercise: Linking Nature, Health and Well-being (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315750941

ABSTRACT

The concept of Green Exercise has now been widely adopted and implies a synergistic health benefit of being active in the presence of nature. This book provides a balanced overview and synthesis text on all aspects of Green Exercise and integrates evidence from many different disciplines including physiology, ecology, psychology, sociology and the environmental sciences, and across a wide range of countries. 

It describes the impact of Green Exercise on human health and well-being through all stages of the lifecourse and covers a wide spectrum from cellular processes such as immune function through to facilitating human behavioural change. It demonstrates the value of Green Exercise for activity and education purposes in both schools and the workplace, as well as its therapeutic properties. Green Exercise is an effective intervention for vulnerable groups and promoting healthy ageing, with activities including wilderness therapy, therapeutic horticulture and the use of forests and water. Chapters also integrate cross-cutting key themes which are relevant to all stages of the lifecourse and have significantly contributed to the Green Exercise research base, such as forest bathing and blue exercise. 

The book also explores the future of Green Exercise, the way in which research can be used to influence green design and planning and how health, social care and environmental agendas can be integrated to enable Green Exercise to be more widely used as a mechanism for improving health.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|16 pages

The seven heresies of Asclepius: how environmental and social context shapes health and well-being

ByJULES PRETTY, DAVID PENCHEON

chapter 2|9 pages

Nature in buildings and health design

BySTEPHEN R. KELLERT

chapter 3|11 pages

Green exercise for health: a dose of nature

ByJO BARTON, CARLY WOOD, JULES PRETTY

chapter 4|9 pages

How to get more out of the green exercise experience: insights from attention restoration theory

ByJASON DUVALL, WILLIAM C. SULLIVAN

chapter 5|7 pages

The benefits of green exercise for children

ByCARLY WOOD, RACHEL BRAGG, JULES PRETTY

chapter 6|16 pages

Learning on the move: green exercise for children and young people

ByLIZ O’BRIEN, BIANCA AMBROSE-OJI , SUE WAITE, JENNIE ARONSSON

chapter 7|10 pages

The health benefits of blue exercise in the UK

ByMATHEW P. WHITE, SARAH BELL, LEWIS R. ELLIOTT, REBECCA JENKIN

chapter 8|10 pages

Forest bathing in Japan

ByQING LI

chapter 9|11 pages

Healthy parks, healthy people: evidence from Australia

ByMARDIE TOWNSEND AND CLAIRE HENDERSON-WILSON

chapter 10|14 pages

Green care: nature-based interventions for vulnerable people

ByJOE SEMPIK, RACHEL BRAGG

chapter 11|11 pages

Care farming and probation in the UK

ByJENNI MURRAY, HELEN ELSEY, ROCHELLE GOLD

chapter 12|14 pages

Wilderness and youth at risk: approaches for positive behaviour change through the outdoors

ByJO ROBERTS, JO BARTON, CARLY WOOD

chapter 13|11 pages

Green exercise in the workplace

ByVALERIE GLADWELL, DANIEL BROWN

chapter 14|11 pages

Green exercise and dementia

ByNEIL MAPES

chapter 15|6 pages

The benefits of greener and healthier economies

ByJULES PRETTY, JO BARTON
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