Edited by Matilda van den Bosch, Assistant Professor, School of Population and Public Health and Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and William Bird, Chair of Physical 0ctivity Alliance and Honorary Senior Lecturer, European Centre for Environment and Human Health European Centre for Environment and Human Health, Truro, UK

Matilda van den Bosch is a physician with a PhD in landscape planning and public health. Her work cuts across medicine and environmental sciences, exploring interactions between human health and nature. Her main focus is health benefits from natural environments and how ecosystem services protect health in a changing climate. Her work is widely acknowledged, featuring in for example National Geographic. Apart from teaching and research activities at the University of British Columbia, Matilda has worked as a consultant to WHO, UN Environmental Programme, and the US Environmental Protection Agency. She is president of the Swedish Society of Behavioural Medicine and president elect of the International Society of Doctors for the Environment.

William Bird is a GP with a special interest in the promotion of outdoor physical activity. He helped set up both the British Heart Foundation National Centre Physical Activity and Health in Loughborough University (2000) and European Centre for Environment and Human Health in Truro (2010). Between 2000 and 2005 he was clinical director at the Met Office working on the Health Forecasting service. In 2010 William was awarded the MBE for services to promote physical activity and health.

Foreword by Howard Frumkin
Julia Africa, The Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Albert Ahenkan, University of Ghana Business School, Department of Public Administration and Health Services Management, Accra, Ghana
My S. Almqvist,
Silvia Ariccio, Department of Psychology of Development Processes and Socialization, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
David J. Ball, Middlesex University, School of Science and Technology Centre for Division Analysis and Risk Management, London, UK
Laurence N. Ball-King, King's College London, London, UK
Tim Beatley, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Simon Bell, Department of Landscape Architecture, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia; and OPENspace Research Centre, Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Julie Bernhardt, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne, Australia
Jeffrey M. Bielicki, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering, The Ohio State University & John Glenn College of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
William Bird, European Centre for Environment and Human Health, Truro, Cornwall, UK
Marino Bonaiuto, CIRPA (Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca in Psicologia Ambientale), Department of Psychology and Developmental and Socialization Processes, University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Mirilia Bonnes, CIRPA (Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca in Psicologia Ambientale), University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Emmanuel Boon, Department of Public Health (BISI), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium
Fiona Bull, Center for Built Environment and Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Cinnamon P. Carlarne, The Ohio State University, Michael E. Moritz College of Law, Columbus, OH
Jack Carman, FASLA, Medford, NJ
Ben Cave, Ben Cave Associates Ltd, Leeds, UK; School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; and Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Carolina Ceres, Faculdades Guarapuava, Rua Novo Ateneu, Brazil
Gunnar Cerwén, Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Hayley Christian, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
George Panagiotis Chrousos, First Department of Pediatrics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Germán Tovar Corzo, Secretaría Distrital de Ambiente, Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia
Åslög Dahl, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Michael H. Depledge, European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, Devon, UK
Mark Detweiler, Department of Psychiatry, Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine, Blacksburg, VA
Stefano de Dominicis, Department of Psychology of Development Processes and Socialization, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Birgit Elands, Forest and Nature Conservation Policy, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Thomas Elmqvist, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Elissa Epel, University of California, San Francisco, CA
Ana Faggi, Argentine National Council of Research, and School of Ecological Engineering, Flores University, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cathey E. Falvo, International Public Health, New York Medical College, New York, NY; and North America, International Society of Doctors for the Environment, North America, CA
Aubrey H. Fine, Department of Education, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA
Luke Fortney, Sauk Prairie Healthcare River Valley Clinic, Family Medicine, Spring Green, WI
Billie Giles-Corti, McCaughey VicHealth Community Wellbeing Unit, Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Peter D. Gluckman, Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Patrik Grahn, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
Leila Haddad, Central Institute of Mental Health, University of Heidelberg, Medical Faculty of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Caroline Hägerhäll, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU, Department of Work Science, Business Economics and Environmental Psychology, Alnarp, Sweden
Anthony Hannan, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Mark A. Hanson, Institute of Developmental Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Ben Harris-Roxas, South Eastern Research Collaboration for Health (SEaRCH), Part of the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity and South Eastern Sydney Local Health District, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Claire Henderson-Wilson, Faculty of Health, School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Michael T. Hernke, School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Paula Hooper, Centre for the Built Environment and Health, School of Earth and Environment and School of Sports Science, Exercise and Health Faculty of Science, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia; and NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Healthy Liveable Communities, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Eva Bojner Horwitz, Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Center for Social Sustainability CSS, Institution of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden; and Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Stockholm, Sweden
Jeannette R. Ickovics, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Heidi Janssen, Hunter Medical Research Institute, University of Newcastle, Hunter New England Health Local Health District, Newcastle, Australia
Génon Jensen, Health and Environment Alliance, Brussels, Belgium
Francesqca E. Jimenez, Cornell University, New York, NY
Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Department of Psychology, University of Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, Seattle, WA
Joshua Karliner, Program and Strategy, Health Care Without Harm, San Francisco, CA
Stephen R. Kellert (deceased), Formally of Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT
Dacher Keltner, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Anas Khan, Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine and University Medical City, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Mohammad Javad Koohsari, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Raffaele Lafortezza, Dip. Scienze Agro-Ambientali e Territoriali, Università degli Studi di Bari, 'Aldo Moro', Bari, Italy
Florian Lederbogen, Central Institute of Mental Health, University of Heidelberg, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Evelyne de Leeuw, Centre for Health Equity Training, Research and Evaluation, CPHCE, University of New South Wales, South Western Sydney Local Health District, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, Sydney, Australia
Qing Li, Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan
Thomas Linden, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health and Hunter Medical Research Institute, New South Wales, Melbourne, Australia
Elisabet Lindgren, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Alan Logan, 'In-FLAME' the International Inflammation Network, World Universities Network (WUN), Crawley, Australia
Rebecca Lovell, European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School, Truro, Cornwall, UK
Felicia M. Low, Liggins Institute University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Fredrika Mårtensson, Cornell University, New York, NY
Erik Martin, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Antony McMichael (deceased), Formally of the Research School of Population Health, Australian National University, Acton, Australia
Jonna G. Meinersmann-Detweiler, Geriatric Research Group, Salem VAMC, VA
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Central Institute of Mental Health, University of Heidelberg, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Steven C. Minta, Consultant, OR
Richard Mitchell, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Sylvie Nail, Faculté des Langues et Cultures Etrangères, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France
Michael Nilsson, University of Newcastle, Hunter Medical Research Institute, Hunter New England Local Health District, New Lambton, New South Wales, Australia
Eric K. Noji, King Saud University Hospitals and College of Medicine, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
David Nowak, USDA Forest Service, SUNY-ESF, New York, NY
Thomas Ogren, The Society for Allergy-Friendly Environmental (SAFE) Gardening, North America, CA
Danielle Ompad, Department of Epidemiology, College of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY
Marla Orenstein, Habitat Health Impact Consulting, Calgary, Canada
Walter Osika, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Center for Social Sustainability, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Sabine Pahl, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
Anna María Pálsdóttir, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
Panagiota Pervanidou, Unit of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, First Department of Pediatrics, National and Kapodistrian, University of Athens; and Aghia Sophia Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece
Karin Peters, Wageningen University and Research, Environmental Sciences Group, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Paul Piff, University of California, Irvine, CA
Rian Podein, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
Michael Pollack, HNE Health, New Lambton, New South Wales, Australia
Daniel Press, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
Haywantee Ramkissoon, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
Karl-Henrik Robèrt, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden
Graham Rook, Centre for Clinical Microbiology, Department of Infection, University College London, London, UK
Osama A. Samarkandi, Prince Sultan College for Emergency Medical Services, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Massimiliano Scopelliti, Department of Human Studies, Libera Università Maria Ss. Assunta (LUMSA University), Rome, Italy
Joe Sempik, School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Filipe Silva, Public Health by Design, London, UK
Neil J. Spratt, HNE Health, New Lambton, New South Wales, Australia
Henk Staats, Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands
Rachel Stancliffe, The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, Oxford, UK
Linda Steg, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
Cecilia Stenfors, Psykologiska Onstitutionen, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
My Svensdotter, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Takemi Sugiyama, Australian Catholic University, Institute for Health and Ageing, Melbourne, Australia
Danny Taufik, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Richard Taylor, Physics Department, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Töres Theorell, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Mardie Townsend, School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Leonie Venhoeven, Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
Agnes E. van den Berg, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
Cecil Konijnendijk van den Bosch, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
Matilda van den Bosch, School of Population and Public Health, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Francesca Viliani, International SOS, Copenhagen, Denmark
Salim Vohra, University of West London, College of Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare, London, UK
Sebastian Völker,
Sjerp de Vries, Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra), Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Peter Währborg, Währborg Research and Consulting AB, Gothenburg, Sweden
Frederick R. Walker, University of Newcastle, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, Australia
Temo Waqanivalu, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Catherine Ward Thompson, OPENspace Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Greg Watts, Bradford Centre for Sustainable Environments, Faculty of Engineering and Informatics, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK
Shawna Weaver, College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, MN
Premila Webster, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Rona Weerasuriya, School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Nancy M. Wells, Design and Environmental Analysis, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, New York, NY
Benedict W. Wheeler, European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, Cornwall, UK
Mathew P. White, European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School, Knowledge Spa, Exeter, Cornwall, UK
David Wong, U.S. Public Health Service, Epidemiology Branch, Office of Public Health, National Park Service, Albuquerque, NM
Sgobaro Zanette,
Robert Zarr, Park Rx America, Unity Health Care, Inc., US National Park Service, Washington, DC
Jia Wei Zhang, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA