Metro nature, environmental health, and economic value

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 390-398

  Wolf, Kathleen L ^a   Robbins, Alicia S T ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RUNOFF; STORM WATER;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORAGING; HORTICULTURE; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; NOISE REDUCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRESS; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION; WELLBEING; CITY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH; PROCEDURES;

CITIES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMANS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84929460352     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408216     Document Type: Review

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