Motivating people to be physically active in green spaces

Forests, Trees and Human Health

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 283-306

  Drakou, Amalia ^a   De Vreese, Rik ^b   Lofthus, Tove ^c   Muscat, Jo ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c Nord Trondelag County ^*  (Malta)

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EID: 79960493112     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9806-1_10     Document Type: Chapter

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