In a new paper published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, authors from the U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Center (ERDC) explore the psychological, physiological, medical, and social benefits to humans of exposure to nature, and how natural infrastructure (NI) projects can take these into account to continue to deliver those benefits.
The author team includes IRIS PhD student Elissa Yeates, who works at ERDC’s Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory as a research engineer. The other authors are Ellis Kalaidijan from the Oak Ridge Institute for Science & Education, Margaret Kurth, John Kucharski and Stephanie Galaitsi from ERDC’s Environmental Laboratory.
Read more about the paper in this story from the Network for Engineering With Nature.