Green Infrastructure and Public Health

Informationen zum Autor Christopher Coutts holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in public health and a PhD in Urban, Technological, and Environmental Planning. His research examining green infrastructure and health linkages has appeared in both peer-reviewed urban planning and public health outlets. He is an associate professor of urban and regional planning and a research associate in the Center for Demography and Population Health at Florida State University, USA. Zusammenfassung A bridge between contemporary science on the structure and form of a healthy landscape and the ways that a healthy landscape supports healthy human beings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, Part I , 1. Green Infrastructure, Ecosystem Services, and the Study of their Contribution to Health, 2. The Evolution of the Ecology of Health, Part II , 3. Essential Ecosystem Services, 4. The Challenge of Climate Change, 5. Infectious Disease Ecology, 6. Physical Activity, 7. Mental Health, 8. Social Capital, Part III , 9. The Threats to Health Posed by Green Infrastructure, 10. Concluding Remarks, Part IV , 11. Public Health Promotion in England’s Community Forest Partnerships, 12. Valencia’s Jardín del Turia Park: From Natural Disaster to Valued Public Health Amenity, 13. Health and Hamburg’s Grünes Netz (Green Network) Plan

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Coutts, Christopher (Florida State University Coutts, Dr. Christopher Coutts
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2016
• EAN: 9780415711364
• ISBN: 978-0-415-71136-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Landscape art & architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, Environmental factors, environmental science, engineering & technology, Human Geography, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Landscape architecture and design, MEDICAL / Environmental Health