We developed a new tool, Healthy Eating Design Guidelines for School Architecture, to provide practitioners in architecture and public health with a practical set of spatially organized and theory-based strategies for making school environments more conducive to learning about and practicing healthy eating by optimizing physical resources and learning spaces. The design guidelines, developed th...

one of the fundamental notions of realization of sustainable city within the framework of the theory of sustainable development is what affects the urban green spaces as well as the influence they may have. as the upshot of years’ worth of experiences in the ideology of iranian urban design, iranian garden is of magnificently high position which possesses the potentials to act as the green spac...

Richard G. FitzJohn†, Matthew W. Pennell*†, Amy E. Zanne, Peter F. Stevens, David C. Tank and William K. Cornwell Biodiversity Research Centre and Department of Zoology University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6G 1Z4, Canada; Department of Biological Sciences Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia; Department of Biological Sciences and Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolution...

G. L. W. Perry ([email protected]), School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science, Univ. of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand. N. J. Enright, School of Environmental Science, Murdoch Univ., South Street, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia. B. B. Lamont, NJE and BPM, Centre for Ecosystem Diversity and Dynamics, School of Agriculture and Environment, Curtin Univ. of T...

Located in the Himalayan south extension of Yunnan garden has its specificity, because element is very rich, tiancheng natural endowment objectively "cast" vivid "Chinese ink painting", "step for scene, turned into", carved, "painting" "Yunnan garden", perfecting connotation and creation process, an economic phenomenon, also belongs to cultural category, crystallization collective wisdom Yunnan...

1 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kobe University, Rokkodai 1-1, Nada-ku, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan 2 Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Chuou-ku, Tokyo, 113-0027, Japan 3 Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology, San 31 Hyoja Dong, Pohang 790-784, Korea 4 Department of Life Science, Graduat...

respect and reverence for water and trees are institutionalised in many ancient civilisations due to socio-cultural traditions, values and beliefs. in iranian societies, respect for trees and water, separately and in composite form as gardens, is a well-known cultural value both before and after islam. therefore, the first part of this paper explains the value and importance of plants and garde...