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Membership of IUFRO is open to any institution concerned with the promotion, support or conduct of research related to forests, trees and forest products.
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Start Date
17 May 2017
Description
Today's western societies are faced with a growing incidence of poor health because of mental stress and sedentary lifestyles. Natural and cultural landscapes are increasingly seen as restorative settings, compensating for negative psychophysiological effects on humans.
This conference is a follow up to the Conferences Recreation and Health in Landscape and Forest and Landscape and Health: Effects, Potential and Strategies that took place at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) in 2009 and 2012 and the 1st Austrian Conference on Forest and Human Health.
Units
31 May 2017 3rd International Conference on Landscape & Human Health - Forests, Parks and Green Care - Proceedings
In the 2014 the Austrian Research Centre for Forests BFW initiated the project "Green Care FOREST", which focuses on the social value of forests. Green