Are human health and environmental health inextricably linked?

David Mariani

doi:10.33393/gcnd.2023.2594

Authors

David Mariani Healthy Habits Academy Director, Montecatini Terme (PT) - Italy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33393/gcnd.2023.2594

Keywords:

Environment, Human health and wellbeing, Green city

Abstract

ONE HEALTH approach, coined by FAO, perfectly sums up a concept that is strongly emerging in the international scientific community.

The Environment, and especially greenery and trees, play a decisive role in human health and wellbeing. A change in the development model that takes these issues into account, starting with the designer of greener and more sustanaible cities, appears necessary and urgent, given that in 2050 approximately 70% of the world’s population will live in large cities.

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