Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7337213 | Social Science & Medicine | 2013 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
⺠Attending to the health and well-being of forest workers challenges the idea of greenspace as inherently 'restorative'. ⺠Forest and woodland work is often mentally stressful, poorly paid, hazardous, and always physically demanding. ⺠Attention restoration theory (ART) is applied in a narrative analysis of accounts of UK woodland workers. ⺠A tension is revealed between the restorative and the counter-restorative in forest and woodland as work place. ⺠Woodland workers describe skillful strategies to benefit from the restorative qualities in the woodland environment.
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Authors
Amanda Bingley,