Forests and human health - Recent trends in Japan

Forest Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 245-259

  Lee, Juyoung ^a   Park, Bum Jin ^b   Tsunetsugu, Yuko ^c   Miyazaki, Yoshifumi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^c FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Evidenced based research; Forest therapy forest therapy station; Health benefits of forests; Physiological response

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895249515     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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