Children, Nature and Cities: Rethinking the Connections

by Yolanda Van Heezik and Claire Freeman

Book Overview

That children need nature for health and well-being is widely accepted, but what type of nature? Specifically, what type of nature is not only necessary but realistically available in the complex and rapidly changing worlds that children currently live in?

This book examines child-nature definitions through two related concepts: the need for connecting to nature and the processes by which opportunities for such contact...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367589435
• ISBN13: 9780367589431
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 318 Pages