Barton / Bragg / Wood Green Exercise

Linking Nature, Health and Well-being
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-61366-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 228 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barton, Jo

Bragg, Rachel

Wood, Carly

Pretty, Jules

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Fitness, Freizeitsport, Gesundheitssport

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Seven Heresies of Asclepius: Behaviours that Affect Well-being

Jules Pretty and David Pencheon

2. Nature in Buildings and Health Design

Stephen Kellert

3. Green Exercise, Health and a Dose of Nature

Jo Barton, Carly Wood, Jules Pretty and Mike Rogerson

4. How to get more out of the Green Exercise Experience: Insights from Attention Restoration Theory

Jason 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 for Children 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 from Australia

Mardie Townsend and Claire Henderson-Wilson

10. Green Care: Nature-based Interventions for Vulnerable People

Joe Sempik and Rachel Bragg

11. Care Farming and Probation

Helen Elsey, Jenni Murray and Rochelle Gold

12. 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

Über Autor(innen)

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 the University of Westminster, London, UK.

Jules Pretty, OBE is Professor of Environment and Society and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Essex, UK.