Healthy people with nature in mind

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Annerstedt Van Den Bosch, Matilda ^a   Depledge, Michael H ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic; Automatic mind; Behaviour change; Climate change; Ecosystem degradation; Nature based solutions; Neuro psychology; Nudging; Pro environmentalism

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; NATURAL SCIENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK;

BEHAVIOR; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; NATURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK;

EID: 84960402887     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-2574-8     Document Type: Review

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