Green infrastructure and public health
Coutts, Christopher
Green infrastructure and public health - London Routledge 2016 - xiv,312p.
CONTENTS
List of figures ix
List of tables xii
Acknowledgments xiii
Contributors xiv
INTRODUCTION 1
Definitions 3
About this book 6
PART I CONNECTING GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND HEALTH 11
1 Green infrastructure, ecosystem services, and the study of their
contribution to health 13
Green infrastructure 14
Ecosystem services 22
The valuation of the health benefits of ecosystem services 29
Biophilic epidemiology 32
Movements to advance a greener ecological model of health 40
Summary 44
2.The evolution of the ecology of health 54
The evolution of an ecological conception of health 55
A brief history of spatial planning for health 60
The greening of the ecological public health paradigm 66
Summary 79
PART II THE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES SUPPORTED BY GREEN
INFRASTRUCTURE 89
3. Essential ecosystem services 91
Water 91
Air 95
Food 102
Medicine 107
Summary 109
4.The challenge of climate change 119
Green infrastructure and carbon sequestration: mitigation and primary
prevention 123
Green infrastructure and weather and climatic events: adaptation and
secondary prevention 127
Urban heat 130
Vector-borne and zoonotic diseases and climate 134
Micah Hahn
Summary 140
5.Infectious disease ecology 148
Micah Hahn
Zoonotic disease 149
Vector-borne disease 152
Biodiversity and disease risk 153
Social context of landscape change 155
Summary 156
6.Physical activity
Overweight and obesity Summary 160
7.Mental health 179
Stress 185
Affect 191
Cognition and attention 196
Mental health co-benefits of green exercise 200
Summary 204
8.Social capital 213
Summary 223
PART III CAUTIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS 227
9.The threats to health posed by green infrastructure 229
Summary 233
10.Concluding remarks 235
PART IV SELECTED CASES OF THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF
PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE 243
11.Public health promotion in England's Community Forest Partnerships 245
Ian Mell
England's Community Forest Partnerships 249
Red Rose Forest 250
North East Community Forest Partnership (The Great North Forest
and The Tees Forest) 250
The Mersey Forest 253
12.Valencia Jardin del Turia Park : from natural disaster to valued public health amenity 269
Salvador del Saz Salazar
13.Health and Hamburgs Grunes Netz plan 286
Thomas B. Fischer
Summary 295
Index 299
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Green infrastructure and public health - London Routledge 2016 - xiv,312p.
CONTENTS
List of figures ix
List of tables xii
Acknowledgments xiii
Contributors xiv
INTRODUCTION 1
Definitions 3
About this book 6
PART I CONNECTING GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND HEALTH 11
1 Green infrastructure, ecosystem services, and the study of their
contribution to health 13
Green infrastructure 14
Ecosystem services 22
The valuation of the health benefits of ecosystem services 29
Biophilic epidemiology 32
Movements to advance a greener ecological model of health 40
Summary 44
2.The evolution of the ecology of health 54
The evolution of an ecological conception of health 55
A brief history of spatial planning for health 60
The greening of the ecological public health paradigm 66
Summary 79
PART II THE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES SUPPORTED BY GREEN
INFRASTRUCTURE 89
3. Essential ecosystem services 91
Water 91
Air 95
Food 102
Medicine 107
Summary 109
4.The challenge of climate change 119
Green infrastructure and carbon sequestration: mitigation and primary
prevention 123
Green infrastructure and weather and climatic events: adaptation and
secondary prevention 127
Urban heat 130
Vector-borne and zoonotic diseases and climate 134
Micah Hahn
Summary 140
5.Infectious disease ecology 148
Micah Hahn
Zoonotic disease 149
Vector-borne disease 152
Biodiversity and disease risk 153
Social context of landscape change 155
Summary 156
6.Physical activity
Overweight and obesity Summary 160
7.Mental health 179
Stress 185
Affect 191
Cognition and attention 196
Mental health co-benefits of green exercise 200
Summary 204
8.Social capital 213
Summary 223
PART III CAUTIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS 227
9.The threats to health posed by green infrastructure 229
Summary 233
10.Concluding remarks 235
PART IV SELECTED CASES OF THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF
PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE 243
11.Public health promotion in England's Community Forest Partnerships 245
Ian Mell
England's Community Forest Partnerships 249
Red Rose Forest 250
North East Community Forest Partnership (The Great North Forest
and The Tees Forest) 250
The Mersey Forest 253
12.Valencia Jardin del Turia Park : from natural disaster to valued public health amenity 269
Salvador del Saz Salazar
13.Health and Hamburgs Grunes Netz plan 286
Thomas B. Fischer
Summary 295
Index 299
9780415711364
720.47 / COU