The Residential Context of HealthISBN: 978-1-4051-1669-5
Paperback
228 pages
August 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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Terry Hartig is an Associate Professor of Psychology with
the Institute for Housing and Urban Research and the Department of
Psychology of Uppsala University. He completed graduate training in
social ecology at the University of California at Irvine and
postdoctoral training in social epidemiology at the University of
California at Berkeley. His research focuses on health values of
nature experience, restorative environments, health in relation to
residence, and the social ecology of stress and restoration.
Roderick J. Lawrence is Professor in the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences at the University of Geneva, where he works in the Centre for Human Ecology and Environmental Sciences. In 1994 he was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Committee of the World Health Organization’s European Centre for Environment and Health. In 1999 he was nominated Chair of the Evaluation Advisory Committee of the World Health Organization’s Healthy Cities Project for the European Region. In 2001 he was nominated to the WHO European Taskforce on Housing and Health.