Modelling well-being and the relationship between individuals and their environments

Landscape, Well-Being and Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 20-37

  Warber, Sara ^a   Irvine, Katherine ^b   Devine Wright, Patrick ^c   Gaston, Kevin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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