Green Infrastructure, Ecosystem Services, and Human Health
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Green Infrastructure, Ecosystem Services, and Human Health
Contemporary ecological models of health prominently feature the natural environment as fundamental to the ecosystem services that support human life, health, and well-being. The natural environment encompasses and permeates all other spheres of influence on health. Reviews of the natural environment and health literature have tended, at times intentionally, to focus on a limited subset of ecos...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1660-4601
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph120809768