Gebundenes Buch

Physical Activity in Natural Settings

Green and Blue Exercise

Herausgeber: Donnelly, Aoife A.; MacIntyre, Tadhg E.

Beschreibung

Physical Activity in Natural Settings includes multi-disciplinary, international research on physical activity, health and the natural environment, with evidence-based guidance on implementing solutions at individual, patient and population levels. The book explores psychological and physiological mechanisms of the benefits of green exercise.

Autor

Aoife A. Donnelly is a Lecturer in the School of Food Science and Environmental Health at the Technical University, Dublin, Ireland. Previously, she was an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funded post-doctoral researcher and developed an operational real time air quality forecast model using integrated parametric and non-parametric regression techniques. Her PhD studies explored background air pollution concentration variations across Ireland. She is a founding member of the GO GREEN (Going Outdoors: Gathering Research Evidence on Emotions and Nature) research initiative. Tadhg E. MacIntyre is a Lecturer with the Health Research Institute and course director for the Masters in Sport, Exercise and Performance Psychology at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Since 2011, he has been an HCPC accredited practitioner in sport psychology in the UK and has been a member of the Irish Institute of Sport quality assurance panel since 2007. Previously, he has conducted funded research for the following agencies: World Anti-Doping Agency, the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences, the British Psychological Society, Erasmus + European Union funding and he is a member of the Strategic Level Expert Advisory Board of the H2020 project Re-Nature. He is a founding member of the GO GREEN (Going Outdoors: Gathering Research Evidence on Emotions and Nature) research initiative.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 743g
• ISBN-13: 9781138749603
• ISBN-10: 1138749605
• Artikelnr.: 57940952