The World Conference on Forests and Parks for Public Health brings together individuals with a wide variety of backgrounds, including researchers and basic scientists, varying from professors to trainees, as well as therapists, psychologists and psychotherapists, forestry advocates and volunteers.
We have the privilege to invite scientists from all over the world to attend the Conference and share their knowledge in this multidisciplinary area. The main topics of the 4th World Conference on Forests and Parks for Public Health, 21-24 May 2025, Luxembourg, are:
- Environmental epidemiology, health geography, forest medicine, Global health, and other disciplines are involved in documenting the associations that forests, parks and green spaces have with public health outcomes.
- Environmental psychology and other disciplines involved in formulating and testing theories in mental and physical health benefits of exposure to natural settings.
- Planning physical activities and access, health promotion, recreation planning, nature-based tourism, and other disciplines involved in designing programs and settings in which individuals, small groups, and general public can visit and experience forests, parks, and green spaces.
- Urban forests and their ecosystem services for Public Health (heat, air pollution, noise, etc., natural immunity included).
- Urban forestry, urban planning, landscape architecture, ecology, conservation biology, and other disciplines involved in green spaces planning and design for Human Health activities, availability, and accessibility.
- Forest therapy, green care, Public Health policies, public health economics, political science and governance, social cohesion, and socioeconomic aspects in Forests, Parks and green spaces for Public Health
