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100			_aCoutts, Christopher _952557
245			_aGreen infrastructure and public health
260			_aLondon _bRoutledge _c2016
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505			_aCONTENTS 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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