Prescribing nature for human health. Trees, green spaces etc.

[sime42]

So I listened to/watched this earlier. Trees get a lot of mention, not surprisingly, so I thought it's worth sharing it on here incase anyone is interested in such things. Trees in the urban environment, planning, the importance of green spaces etc etc. Plus a lot more besides.

It confirms what a lot of us probably already suspected. It's nice to see it backed up by what seems like quite rigourous scientific research. It could be brushed off as touchy feely hippy stuff otherwise.

 

I'd not heard of the woman before, but I was very impressed with her. Kathy Eallis. She deals with the subject in a very no-nonsense manner. Turns out that she is a life peer, with a long list of qualifications and experience in the field.

 

 

[peds]

Sounds interesting, I'll stick that on at some point when I need to fill the air with sound. Not now, early night.

 

Somewhat related to prescribing nature; I've always been amused by the concept of horticultural therapy (which does of course work wonders for all sorts of people, for all sorts of problems, with a lot of data to back it up), and I've often wondered where you would find the upper boundary of a therapeutic amount of hands-in-compost time, and how it compares to the average workload of your average horticulturalist. 

Because potting on primroses and violas doesn't feel very therapeutic after the first few thousand.

[Steven P]

I think a lot of therapeutic remedies are "got off the computer screen for an hour and socialise IRL" remedies !

[GarethM]

I'm wonder if you could lock them in a dog field for an hour?.

[Matthew Norman]

A similar talk was given by Kathleen WOlf at this year's Arb. Assoc. conference, where she highlighted the benefits of being surrounded by trees and green spaces, especially in urban settings. Really interesting talk. She also mentioned the 3/30/300 rule - which is well worth looking into further, if you're interested in how trees can be good for our health. 

Webinar 3: the ‘3-30-300 rule’ - Treeconomics

 

 

[sime42]

4 hours ago, Matthew Norman said:

A similar talk was given by Kathleen WOlf at this year's Arb. Assoc. conference, where she highlighted the benefits of being surrounded by trees and green spaces, especially in urban settings. Really interesting talk. She also mentioned the 3/30/300 rule - which is well worth looking into further, if you're interested in how trees can be good for our health. 

Webinar 3: the ‘3-30-300 rule’ - Treeconomics

 

 

 

Thanks, not heard of that, I'll give it a listen as well.

 

It all comes down to numbers then. Fractals get a mention in that first talk. @Macpherson - you'll find it interesting if you're still around. It's not just having a green and tree'd vista to look at, the exact fractal dimension of it also plays a part. Apparently.