Forests for Public Health

Author Biography

Dr Christos Gallis is the Research Director at the Forest Research Institute, Greece, with over 20 years’ experience in research and lecturing on forests and human health worldwide. He is an IUFRO Scientific Officeholder and Research Coordinator and Vice-President of the International Association for Nature and Forest Welfare, Korea. He is also a Board Member of the International Society of Nature and Forest Medicine, Japan. His publications include Forests, Trees and Human Health (as co-editor; 2011) and Green Care: For Human Therapy, Social Innovation, Rural Economy, and Education (as editor; 2013).Won Sop Shin is a Professor of Social Forestry at Chungbuk National University, South Korea. As former Minister of the Korea Forest Service, he has been involved in many forest therapy research projects, the development of protected forest areas in forest therapy centres nationally, and leadership with the International Society of Nature and Forest Medicine. He is also Chairperson of Committee on Forestry for the Food and Agriculture Organization.