Wellness & Nature

LINKS TO RESOURCES

To Main page, Wellness & Nature Project (California Institute of Public Affairs)

 

Following are links to publications and Web sites about connections between wellness and nature. "Wellness" is defined broadly to include not only human physical and mental health, but social connectedness and community spirit.

 

("Health" is defined by the World Health Organization as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.")

 

More will be added to this page.

 

AUSTRALIA

 

New South Wales

 

Sydney Parks Group, Healthy Parks Healthy People program: www.cp.nsw.gov.au/about_us/healthy_parks_healthy_people/

 

Victoria

 

Parks Victoria, “Healthy Parks, Healthy People”: www.parkweb.vic.gov.au

 

John Senior and Mardie Townsend, "'Healthy Parks, Health People' and Other Social Capital Initiatives of Parks Victoria, Australia." In Ted Trzyna, ed., The Urban Imperative: Urban Outreach Strategies for Protected Area Agencies, 2005.

 

Mardie Townsend and Megan Moore, Research into the Health, Wellbeing & Social Capital Benefits of Community Involvement in the Management of Land for Conservation: Final Report, 2005

Contents (PDF)

Text (PDF)

 

Mardie Townsend and Matthew Ebden, Feel Blue, Touch Green, 2006 (PDF)

 

Updates on Townsend's and others' research: Deakin University Nature and Health Research Group (NiCHE):  www.deakin.edu.au/hbs/hsd/research/niche

The People & Parks Foundation (Melbourne): www.peopleandparks.org

Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth): www.vichealth.vic.gov.au

CANADA

 

Canadian Parks Council: "Healthy by Nature" (brochure) (PDF)

 

UNITED KINGDOM

 

England

 

Liz O'Brien, Forestry Commission: Trees and Woodlands: Nature's Health Service, 2005: www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/infd-6j9gc4

 

UNITED STATES

 

National

 

U.S. National Park Service, Health, Recreation, and Our National Parks: http://home.nps.gov/applications/release/Detail.cfm?ID=659 (Go to "Link" at bottom of page)

 

National Recreation and Park Association, "Step Up To Health" (SUTH): www.nrpa.org/health

 

California

 

California State Parks: "Take a Hike in California's State Parks":

www.parks.ca.gov/takeahike.

 

4/2007
 

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