Making Healthy Places Designing and Building for Health, Well-being, and Sustainability /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Dannenberg, Andrew L. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Frumkin, Howard (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Jackson, Richard J. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2011.
• Θέματα: Environment.; Medicine.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Buildings.; Urban ecology (Biology).; Sustainable development.; Sustainable Development.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Urban Ecology.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Building Types and Functions.

The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• 1. An Introduction to Healthy Places
• 2. Community Design for Physical Activity
• 3. Food Environments
• 4. Community Design and Air Quality
• 5. Injuries and the Built Environment
• 6. Community Design for Water Quantity and Quality
• 7. Mental Health and the Built Environment
• 8. Social Capital and Community Design
• 9. Vulnerable Populations and the Built Environment
• 10. Transportation and Land Use
• 11. Healthy Homes
• 12. Healthy Workplaces
• 13. Healthy Health Care Settings
• 14. Healthy Schools
• 15. Contact with Nature
• 16. Resiliency to Disasters
• 17. Behavioral Choices and the Built Environment
• 18. Policy and Legislation for Healthy Places
• 19. Community Engagement in Design and Planning
• 20. Measuring, Assessing, and Certifying Healthy Places
• 21. Training the Next Generation to Promote Healthy Places
• 22. Healthy Places Research: Emerging Opportunities
• 23. Urban Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
• 24. Built Environments of the Future
• Glossary
• About the Editors
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Index.