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Green and Pleasant Lands

Kathy Willis examines the importance of green landscapes, parks and gardens for our health. What鈥檚 their future role? From 2014.

Prof. Kathy Willis examines the different kinds of spiritual, physical and intellectual links that we have with the landscape and their diverse ecosystems and the extent to which they contribute to our health and well being.

As well as providing a source of inspiration and recreation there's plenty of anecdotal evidence suggesting that green spaces can make a positive contribution to our health, but what kinds of landscapes are of greatest benefit?

Kathy Willis assesses the some of the latest research assessing physiological and psychological benefits that ecosystems can provide from manicured botanical gardens to wild open countryside

With contributions from Richard Barley, director of horticulture Kew Gardens; Rachel Bragg researcher in Green Care at Essex University, Shonil Bhagwat environmental geographer at the OU, and historian Jim Endersby

Producer Adrian Washbourne.

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15 minutes

Last on

Fri 2 Aug 2019 02:15

Broadcasts

  • Thu 21 Aug 2014 13:45
  • Thu 24 Mar 2016 14:15
  • Fri 25 Mar 2016 02:15
  • Thu 27 Jul 2017 14:15
  • Fri 28 Jul 2017 02:15
  • Thu 1 Aug 2019 14:15
  • Fri 2 Aug 2019 02:15

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