Economic Value of Parks via Human Mental Health: An Analytical Framework
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Economic Value of Parks via Human Mental Health: An Analytical Framework
Exposure to nature yields a wide range of mental health benefits. Improvements in mental health have substantial economic value, through: reduced mental healthcare costs; improved workplace productivity; and reduced costs of antisocial behavior, both public, and private. These economic gains represent an unquantified ecosystem service attributable to conservation. Since most individual people, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2296-701X
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00016