Healthy Parks, Healthy People: The Health Benefits of Contact with Nature

Volume 26 • Number 2 (2009) 51 Healthy Parks, Healthy People: The Health Benefits of Contact with Nature in a Park Context Cecily Maller, Mardie Townsend, Lawrence St Leger, Claire Henderson-Wilson, Anita Pryor, Lauren Prosser, and Megan Moore Ed. note:... More

Volume 26 • Number 2 (2009) 51 Healthy Parks, Healthy People: The Health Benefits of Contact with Nature in a Park Context Cecily Maller, Mardie Townsend, Lawrence St Leger, Claire Henderson-Wilson, Anita Pryor, Lauren Prosser, and Megan Moore Ed. note: With the increasing recognition of the value of nature to human health and wellbeing, Parks Victoria will host the first International Healthy Parks Healthy People Congress in 2010. The aim of the congress is to raise awareness of recent research, highlight case studies, and facilitate discussion regarding the advantages of, and opportunities for, future collaboration. The congress will be staged in Melbourne, Australia, 11–16 April 2010. See healthyparkshealthypeoplecongress. org for further details. This paper is an abridgment, made with the authors’ permission, of a much longer monograph, “Healthy Parks, Healthy People: The Health Benefits of Contact with Nature in a Park Context—A Review of Relevant Literature (2nd ed. , March Less