New Report – Connecting with Nature for Health and Wellbeing

A new report has been published as part of the Nature and Environment to Attain and Restore Health (NEAR Health) project. The EPA and HSE funded project worked to investigate how nature and the environment can help society to attain and restore health. The NEAR Health project team combined environmental, health, social innovation and medical fields to build capacity and develop and transform knowledge for communities, policymakers and practitioners. This project investigated (1) how people value and experience nature, health and wellbeing, (2) the barriers and bridges to nature connection, (3) what people want from their healthy future environment and (4) nature- based activities to benefit people’s health and wellbeing. In doing so, the team collaborated with communities to co-create the outcomes of this research.

To read more about the project click here.

To download the report, click the cover below.