COST Action - Green Care

First Conference - Presentations

Hilde Hauge

On this page you will find PowerPoint presentations from the First Conference of COST Action 866, held in Vienna 20.-22. June 2007. For Minutes of MC and WG meetings, see links to Management Committee and Working Groups to the left.

Plenary sessions
Farming for health across Europe. Jan Hassink
Where Hope Grows: Gardening and Life Challenges. Anita Unruh
Attention Restoration Theory: Empirical Work and Practical Applications. Bernadine Cimprich
Green care in the framework of health promotion. Erja Rappe
Green care farming in the context of multifunctional agriculture. Guido Van Huylenbroeck
Reconfiguring farm resources and territorial capital as resource base for green care activities. Henk Renting

WG1 Health effects of green care
Monitoring patient progress at the healthcare farm ‘De Hoge Born’: preliminary results from the first phase. Erik Baars
Effects of green-care farms on quality of life of people with a psychiatric and/or addiction history. Future research challenges on green care farming
Marjolein Elings
How to be a care-farmer for € 73: a shareholder survey of the Fordhall Community Land Initiative (UK). John R Hegarty
Care farming in the UK – Recent research findings on i) the scope and range of Care Farms in the UK and ii) pilot study on the psychological health and well-being benefits of care farming in the UK. Rachel Hine
Animal assisted therapy, pedagogics and activities with farm animals. Luisa Demattio
A garden for Horticultural Therapy. Giorgio Guerani

WG2 Economics of green care
Researching the business ideas of Finnish green care farms. Anja Yli-Viikari
The creativity in green care activities. Anna Kirveennummi
Social enterprise, farms and care in rural England. Stephen Parsons

WG3 Policies related to green care
Green Care policies in Austria. Georg Wiesinger
Conceptualisation of the regional net of social farms. Katja Vadnal
Science and policy of Farming for health. Elsa Fjeldavli and Torill Meistad
Chances for social farming due to changing paradigms in health care. Jan Hassink
100 ideas for development of green care. Roberto Finuola

Updated: 15.10.07
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COST Action 866 - Green Care in Agriculture

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Hilde Hauge

Dept. of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences

Norwegian University of Life Sciences

P.O. Box 5003, NO-1432 Ås, Norway

e-mail: hilde.hauge@umb.no