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Recreational Needs and Behavior in Natural Settings

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Behavior and the Natural Environment

Part of the book series: Human Behavior and Environment ((HUBE,volume 6))

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Do humans require nature? The query has bounded for decades throughout the literature, seemingly without resolution.

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