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Green Exercise
Linking Nature, Health and Well-being
Edited by Jo Barton, Rachel Bragg, Carly Wood andJules Pretty
June 2016: 256pp
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Table of Contents:
1. The Seven Heresies of Asclepius: Behaviours
that Affect Well-being
Jules Pretty and David Pencheon
2. Nature in Buildings and Health DesignStephen Kellert
3. Green Exercise, Health and a Dose of Nature
Jo Barton, Carly Wood, Jules Pretty and MikeRogerson
4. How to get more out of the Green Exercise
Experience: Insights from Attention Restoration
TheoryJason Duvall and William C. Sullivan
5. Children’s Connections to Nature and Green
Exercise
Carly Wood, Rachel Bragg and Jules Pretty
6. Learning on the Move: Green Exercise forChildren and Young People
Liz O’Brien, Bianca Ambrose-Oji, Sue Waite,
Jennie Aronsson and Maria Clark
7. The Benefits of Blue Exercise
Mathew White, Sarah Bell, Lewis Elliott, Rebecca
Jenkin, Benedict Wheeler and Michael Depledge
8. Forest Bathing in Japan
Qing Li
9. Healthy Parks, Healthy People: Evidence fromAustralia
Mardie Townsend and Claire Henderson-Wilson
10. Green Care: Nature-based Interventions forVulnerable People
Joe Sempik and Rachel Bragg
11. Care Farming and Probation
Helen Elsey, Jenni Murray and Rochelle Gold12. Green Care Interventions for Youth at Risk
Jo Roberts, Jo Barton and Carly Wood
13. Green Exercise in the Workplace
Valerie Gladwell and Dan Brown
14. Green Exercise and Dementia
Neil Mapes
15. The Benefits of Greener and Healthier
Economies
Jules Pretty and Jo Barton

The concept of Green Exercise has now been widely adopted andimplies a synergistic health benefit of being active in the presenceof 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, andacross a wide range of countries.
It describes the impact of Green Exercise on human health andwell-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 inboth schools and the workplace, as well as its therapeuticproperties. Green Exercise is an effective intervention forvulnerable groups and promoting healthy ageing, with activities
including wilderness therapy, therapeutic horticulture and the useof forests and water. Chapters also integrate cross-cutting key
themes which are relevant to all stages of the lifecourse and havesignificantly 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 inwhich research can be used to influence green design andplanning and how health, social care and environmental agendas
can be integrated to enable Green Exercise to be more widelyused as a mechanism for improving health.

About the Editors
Jo Barton is Lecturer in Sports and Exercise Science at the
University of Essex, UK.
Rachel Bragg is at Care Farming UK, and Visiting Fellow,
University of Essex, UK.
Carly Wood is Lecturer in Nutrition and Exercise Science at theUniversity of Westminster, London, UK.
Jules Pretty, OBE is Professor of Environment and Society andDeputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Essex, UK.

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