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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 can be enhanced. It analyses
the available nature from a scientific perspective of habitats,
species and environments, together with the role of planning, to
identify how children in cities can and do connect with nature.
This book challenges the notion of a universal child and childhood
by recognizing children's diverse life worlds and experiences which
guide them into different and complex ways of interacting with the
natural world. Unfortunately not all children have the freedom to
access the nature that is present in the cities where they live.
This book addresses the challenge of designing biodiverse cities in
which nature is readily accessible to children.
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 can be enhanced. It analyses
the available nature from a scientific perspective of habitats,
species and environments, together with the role of planning, to
identify how children in cities can and do connect with nature.
This book challenges the notion of a universal child and childhood
by recognizing children's diverse life worlds and experiences which
guide them into different and complex ways of interacting with the
natural world. Unfortunately not all children have the freedom to
access the nature that is present in the cities where they live.
This book addresses the challenge of designing biodiverse cities in
which nature is readily accessible to children.
In our fast-changing urban world, the impacts of social and
environmental change on children are often overlooked. Children and
their Urban Environment examines these impacts in detail, looking
at the key activities, spaces and experiences children have and how
these can be managed to ensure that children benefit from change.
The authors highlight the importance of planners, architects and
housing professionals in creating positive environments for
children and involving them in the planning process. They argue
that children's lives are becoming simultaneously both richer and
more deprived, and that, despite apparently increasing wealth,
disparities between children are increasing further. Each chapter
includes international examples of good practice and policy
innovations for redressing the balance in favour of child
supportive environments. The book seeks to embrace childhood as a
time of freedom, social engagement and environmental adventure and
to encourage creation of environments that better meet the needs of
children. The authors argue that in doing so, we will build more
sustainable neighbourhoods, cities and societies for the future.
Following the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), the
case for children's involvement in decision-making processes has
been championed by pressure groups and voluntary organisations.
Planning with children for better communities argues that there is
now a need to transfer these ideas and experiences to mainstream
services of local authorities, regeneration agencies and other
organisations. In addition to clarifying why the issue of
children's participation should be prioritised, the authors use
examples and case studies from a variety of professions and
disciplines in order to explain different methods which can be used
to support participation. The book: analyses children's and young
people's contemporary place in local communities; locates debates
about children's and young people's participation in local
communities within government social and economic policy; captures
children's and young people's views and experiences of community
life. The authors conclude that there should be greater recognition
of the right of children to determine significant decisions
affecting them - children have a clear entitlement to involvement
in key decisions which influence their lives. Planning with
children for better communities is important reading for local
authority planners and policy makers, project workers, community
development workers, children's rights officers, youth workers,
play workers and students of social and community work and
politics. It should also be read by those people in the voluntary
and community sector concerned with children's issues relating to
planning and community development.
Every Day But Tuesday is a book of lyric experiments amassed from a
space beyond ordinary time, where "this is tomorrow and the sun"
stands, reverberating both as precursor and postscript to the
apocalypse. The extraordinary world of these poems, coming from the
sea, forests, islands, mountains, and rivers, form an utterly new
logic of sound patterning and metric sense-making, colliding a
series of gorgeous associations with a suite of prepositions
forever reconfiguring.
Planning is central to ensuring children and young people live in
safe, secure places, that they are included and can be active.
There can be few aspects of planners' work that do not directly
impact on children, from designing city centres, to implementing
policies that will minimise the environmental effects of industrial
practices. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
(1989) requires planners to consider children in matters affecting
them and affirms that they have the right to be heard on such
matters, and there is a consensus that it is important to try and
engage children and young people in the planning process. The main
question is how? This book provides a range of international case
studies illustrating good practice. It offers a variety of tools
and techniques which have proved to be successful and discusses the
work that needs to be done to enable planners to respond more
effectively. It identifies key areas of concern generally with
reference to the built environment and more precisely to planning
theory and practice.
Mackenzie the cat escapes the family car at the start of their road
trip to a new home far away. Not knowing which way to go, Mack
begins a series of meetings with some of nature's wild creatures.
They help him find the true purpose of his challenging journey to
kindred spirits in a new land.
This text provides an insight into the modes and devices employed
in the creation of women's fiction since the 18th century. It
argues that traditional theorizations of the sublime depend upon
unexamined assumptions about femininity and sexual difference, and
that the sublime could not exist without misogynistic constructions
of "the feminine." Taking this as her starting point, Freeman
suggests that the "other sublime" that comes into view from this
new perspective not only offers a crucial way to approach
representations of excess in women's fiction, but allows us to
envision other modes of writing the sublime. Freeman reconsiders
Longinus, Burke, Kant, Weiskel, Hertz and Derrida while also
engaging a wide range of women's fiction, including novels by
Chopin, Morrison, Rhys, Shelley and Wharton. Addressing the
coincident rise of the novel and concept of the sublime in
18th-century European culture, Freeman allies the articulation of
sublime experience with questions of agency and passion in modern
and contemporary women's fiction. Arguments that have seemed merely
to explain the sublime also functioned to evaluate, domesticate and
ultimately exclude an otherness that is almost al
Children are citizens with autonomy and rights identified by
international agencies and United Nations conventions, but these
rights are not readily enforceable. Some of the worst levels of
child poverty and poor health in the OECD, as well as exceptionally
high child suicide rates, exist in Aotearoa New Zealand today. More
than a quarter of children are experiencing a childhood of hardship
and deprivation in a context of high levels of inequality. Maori
children face particular challenges. In a country that
characterizes itself as "a good place to bring up children," this
is of major concern. The essays in this book are by leading
researchers from several disciplines and focus on all of our
children and young people, exploring such topics as the environment
(economic, social and natural), social justice, children’s voices
and rights, the identity issues they experience and the impact of
rapid societal change. What children themselves have to say is
insightful and often deeply moving.
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