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The rapid increase in urbanization and the problems of stress, sedentary occupations, and hazardous urban environmental conditions due to modern life may be factors that place great demand on forests’ health functions. Scientific research has shown that there are various psychological and physiological human health benefits of exposure to forests, parks, and green spaces.
This collection of papers highlights up-to-date findings and evidence to reveal the beneficial effects of forests on human and public health. The findings provided here can be implemented in practice and policy using forests and nature for human and public health.
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Won Sop Shin is a Professor of Social Forestry at Chungbuk National University, South Korea. As former Minister of the Korea Forest Service, he has been involved in many forest therapy research projects, the development of protected forest areas in forest therapy centres nationally, and leadership with the International Society of Nature and Forest Medicine. He is also Chairperson of Committee on Forestry for the Food and Agriculture Organization.
