by: U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station and Meristem
Restorative Commons: Creating Health and Well-Being Through Urban Landscapes is a new collection of 18 articles inspired by the Meristem 2007 Forum, ''Restorative Commons for Community Health'' include interviews, case studies, thought pieces, and interdisciplinary theoretical works that explore the relationship between human health and the urban environment.
This publication is a joint endeavor of Meristem and the U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station as they work to strengthen networks of researchers and practitioners to develop new solutions to persistent and emergent challenges to human health, well-being, and potential within the urban environment.
The publication can be viewed or downloaded as a PDF at the link below. Hard copies can be ordered free of charge at www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/order/8810.
This publication is a joint endeavor of Meristem and the U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station as they work to strengthen networks of researchers and practitioners to develop new solutions to persistent and emergent challenges to human health, well-being, and potential within the urban environment.
The publication can be viewed or downloaded as a PDF at the link below. Hard copies can be ordered free of charge at www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/order/8810.
Resource(s): http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/gtr/gtr_nrs-p-39.pdf
Conservation: An Investment That Pays from Trust for Public Land is intended to help agency personnel and community conservationists make the case for conservation as a long-term economic investment.Conservation: An Investment That Pays, a white paper from Trust for Public Land (TPL), is intended to help agency personnel and community conservationists make the case for conservation as a long-term economic investment.
Too often the argument is made that creating parks and conserving land is too expensive, especially in hard economic times. TPL hopes that the research and examples cited in Conservation: An Investment That Pays will help promote conservation for its many benefits, including the boost parks and open space can give to a community's bottom line.
Read more at the resource link below.
Too often the argument is made that creating parks and conserving land is too expensive, especially in hard economic times. TPL hopes that the research and examples cited in Conservation: An Investment That Pays will help promote conservation for its many benefits, including the boost parks and open space can give to a community's bottom line.
Read more at the resource link below.
www.smartgrowth.org
