Forest Therapy and Human Health
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Forestry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 March 2025 | Viewed by 791
Special Issue Editors
Interests: people with disabilities; accessibility of space for people with disabilities; nature tourism; forest therapy; universal design; ergonomics
Interests: landscape management; forest management; recreation and tourism; nonwood forest products; environmental protection
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Interests: nature tourism; forest therapy; forestry; nature education
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Contact with nature, especially forests, helps humans to fight stress, improves well-being, and protects human mental health. Even a short stay in a forest improves mood, provides more energy, reduces emotional tension, and increases positive feelings. Forest bathing can be useful in the fight against depression, anxiety, and attention deficit. However, there are still many elements related to forest therapy that need to be analyzed, including limits on the use of the forest environment resulting from, for example, human health or the condition of the forest. Moreover, there is a need to develop a list of factors that can increase the effectiveness of the forest’s impact on the human body or weaken it. Research into the economic evaluation and environmental justice potential of forest landscapes is also needed.
The aim of this Special Issue is to present interdisciplinary research on the latest achievements in the field of forest therapy, as well as attempt to evaluate and synthesize the existing research carried out in this direction. Potential topics include the impact of the forest on people of different ages and health conditions, the durability of the impact of the forest on human health, forms of forest therapy, threats to the use of the forest environment, forest therapy, and public health.
Dr. Malgorzata Woznicka
Dr. Jitka Fialova
Dr. Natalia Korcz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- forest therapy
- forest bathing
- human well-being
- Shinrin-yoku
- forest healing
- physiological
- public health
- health services
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