Forests for public health
By: edited by Christos Gallis and Won Sop Shin
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9781527550292
Subjects: Environmental health; Forests and forestry; Health aspects; Forest policy
Description: Forests have diverse values and functions that produce not only material products, but also non-material services. The health functions provided by forests have been used for a very long time, but they have only been emphasized in many fields of society in recent years. The rapid increase in urbanization and the problems of stress, sedentary occupations, and hazardous urban environmental conditions due to modern life may be factors that place great demand on forests' health functions. Scientific research has shown that there are various psychological and physiological human health benefits of e.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.