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His 2014 book, Nature Play and Learning Places: Creating and Managing Places Where Children Engage with Nature, was written in collaboration with Alan Cooper of the US National Wildlife Federation. This user-friendly text is a resource for stakeholders wanting to both view and consider elements to include in a playscape design.
The Children & Nature Network was created to encourage and support the people and organizations working to reconnect children with nature. Richard Louv is a co-founder of the Children & Nature Network. The No Child Left Inside Coalition works to get children outside and actively learning. They hope to address the problem of nature-deficit disorder.
The Children & Nature Network was created to encourage and support the people and organizations working to reconnect children with nature. The organization provides access to the latest news and research in the field and a peer-to-peer network of researchers and individuals, educators and organizations dedicated to children's health and well-being.
Resurgence & Ecologist — British bi-monthly green magazine; Sanctuary Asia — India's first and one of its leading environmental news magazines; Sierra Magazine — the national magazine of the Sierra Club; Sustain Europe (100% recycled print and online magazine) — Semiannual European title covering tourism, business, energy and ...
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder is a 2005 book by author Richard Louv that documents decreased exposure of children to nature in American society and how this "nature-deficit disorder" harms children and society. The author also suggests solutions to the problems he describes.
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Children In comparison to research in adults, research in children and young people has indicated that there is no additional benefit of taking part in green exercise for self-esteem or mood. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] These findings can be related to nature deficit disorder whereby children are spending less time outdoors interacting with natural environments.
Research shows that the mental health effects of nature are positive across all ages. [5] In regards to children, in Denmark there was a study done throughout eighteen years that analyzed the comparison between children ages 0–10 years old that lived in neighborhoods with more green space and children from lower levels of exposure to green space.