Publications

‘Green Care’ is a range of activities that promotes physical and mental health and well-being through contact with nature. It utilises farms, gardens and other outdoor spaces as a therapeutic intervention for vulnerable adults and children. Green care includes care farming, therapeutic horticulture, animal assisted therapy and other nature-based approaches. These are now the subject of investigation by researchers from many different countries across the world.

This book is related to all WGs objectives but especially to WG2, which key deliverables are: a collection of climatic data for several European regions according to agroclimatic indices, simulation models and hazards; verification of data and solving of problems arising from missing, nonhomogeneous and erroneous data; assessment of required resolution for practical agroclimatological applications as a function of variables, areas and agricultural aspects; definition of statistical protocols to analyse the climatic series, in order to evaluate mean and variability patterns; determination of current trend of agroclimatic indices, simulation model outputs and hazards.