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This chapter introduces the Good from Woods project from which this book develops its themes and case studies. It describes the project’s use of ideas of wellbeing in the context of the concept’s entrance into UK policy on health during moves to reform of public health structures and modernise and reorganise health services. It discusses how shifting towards specific, localised health provision creates new opportunities for a different type of wellbeing service delivery, frequently from the third sector, supplying health promotion and therapeutic activities conceived around local people and place. It describes the fast-growing role of woodland health and wellbeing services within this decentralised model and the particular example of such services in south-west England. The authors also introduce their personal motivations for writing this book.
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Goodenough, A., Waite, S. (2020). Introduction: The Good from Woods Project. In: Wellbeing from Woodland. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32629-6_1
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