Nature deficit: Healthy parks, healthy people? Featuring Richard Louv (p3)

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In this Melbourne Conversations event, Healthy Parks=Healthy People?, three world authorities discuss the benefits of contact with nature for human health and wellbeing.

Acclaimed author Richard Louv has identified a phenomenon: nature-deficit disorder. His book Last Child in the Woods galvanized an international movement around the disconnection between children and nature; Steve Coleman leads Washinton DC’s 16-year-old alliance of public/private parks partnerships, which manages restoration, stewardship, and programming of their parks across the city; and Mardie Townsend is involved, in collaboration with Parks Victoria and other partner organisations, in investigating the benefits of contact with nature for human health and wellbeing. The session is chaired by Natasha Mitchell (journalist and presenter, ABC Radio National's All in the Mind).

Presented by the City of Melbourne in collaboration with People & Parks Foundation and Sport and Recreation Victoria, Department of Planning and Community Development to coincide with the Healthy Parks Healthy People Congress. 

BMW Edge, Melbourne, April 2010

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City of Melbourne

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