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The Nature Principle. Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder.

  • Author(s): Richard Louv http://richardlouv.com
  • Organization: Publisher: Algonquin Books. Chapel Hill, North Carolina http://www.algonquin.com/
  • Date Published: January 7, 2011

“Supported by groundbreaking research, anecdotal evidence, and compelling personal stories, Louv shows us how tapping into the restorative powers of the natural world can boost mental acuity and creativity; promote health and wellness; build smarter and more sustainable businesses, communities, and economies; and ultimately strengthen human bonds. “

http://richardlouv.com/books/nature-principle/

The Necessity of Urban Green Space for Children’s Optimal Development

  • Author(s): Suchitra Sugar
  • Organization: UNICEF
  • Date Published: June 22, 2021

Green spaces can significantly benefit children’s physical, mental and social development – from infancy into adulthood. This paper outlines the many benefits of green spaces on children’s health and development, as well as actions to improve access to green spaces. Recommended interventions focus on empowering communities to claim and maintain their local green spaces, securing government support to improve and create green space in cities, and prioritizing schools and child care centres for greening.

The Necessity of Urban Green Space for Children’s Optimal Development

The Park Prescription.

  • Author(s): D. Fleischer
  • Organization: Green Impact http://www.green-impact.org.uk/
  • Date Published: May 23, 2010

This article is a summary of Dr. Daphne Miller’s speach at the Bay Area Open Space Council Conference: Take Five (Minutes) and Call Me In the Morning; prescribing patients to spend more time outsides to improve their health.

http://greenimpact.com/blog/2010/05/23/the-park-prescription-dr-daphne-miller-speaks-bay-area-open-space-council-conference-take-five-minutes-and-call-me-in-the-morning/

The Project Adventure RESPECT Program: Implementing an Experientially-based Intervention as an Agent for Whole School Social and Academic Change

  • Author(s): Paul Shirilla, Michael Gass, Sara Anderson
  • Organization: Education
  • Date Published: January 1, 2009

The use of experiential education and adventure-based programming in United States education can take many forms, including the use of challenge course programmes and expedition-style outdoor trips. While these programmes can be beneficial for students’ personal growth, organisations such as Project Adventure have begun the process of bringing adventure into the school environment as an important next step in the use of experiential methods in US education. Project Adventure is a non-profit organisation supporting the use of adventure-based and experiential programming in both schools and other youth organisations.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03004270802291905

The Relationship Between Trees and Human Health

  • Author(s): Donovan, Geoffrey H et all
  • Organization: Elsevier
  • Date Published: February 1, 2013

A natural experiment, which provides stronger evidence of causality, was used to test whether a major change to the natural environment – the loss of 100 million trees to the emerald ash borer, an invasive forest pest – has influenced mortality related to cardiovascular and lower-respiratory diseases.

There was an increase in mortality related to cardiovascular and lower-respiratory-tract illness in counties infested with the emerald ash borer. The magnitude of this effect was greater as infestation progressed and in counties with above-average median household income. Across the 15 states in the study area, the borer was associated with an additional 6113 deaths related to illness of the lower respiratory system, and 15,080 cardiovascular-related deaths.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749379712008045

The Restorative Benefits of Nature: Toward an Integrative Framework.

  • Author(s): Stephen Kaplan
  • Organization: Journal of Environmental Psychology (vol. 15, Issue 3, pp. 169-182).http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-environmental-psychology/
  • Date Published: December 31, 1995

This paper explores how natural environments are rich in the characteristics important to restorative therapies.

http://willsull.net/resources/KaplanS1995.pdf

Time in Nature – University of Victoria

Trails Challenge

  • Author(s): East Bay Regional Park District (http://www.ebparks.org/)
  • Organization: East Bay Regional Park District (http://www.ebparks.org/)

Sign up for this popular self-guided hiking program and enjoy your Regional Parks at the same time! Thanks to a special partnership between the East Bay Regional Park District, Kaiser Permanente and the Regional Parks Foundation this program is free to residents of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties and Kaiser Permanente Employees. The Trails Challenge program is a great way to stay active and keep up with your fitness goals. Best of all – participate on your own schedule, when it is convenient to you.

http://www.regionalparksfoundation.org/page.aspx?pid=582