The Restoration Perspective : A Source of Novel Concepts for Research on Environment and Health(<Feature 1>Restorative environments)

Abstract

In its concern for a fundamental aspect of human adaptation, research on restorative environments complements research on stress and coping as a means to understanding relations between environment and health. In this article I characterize the stress, coping and restoration perspectives on adaptation, and I note some of the ways in which they complement each other. I then go on to describe a particular strand of research that has followed from the restoration perspective and which concerns a novel concept, constrained restoration.