Children's Health and Wellbeing in Urban Environments

by Christina R. Ergler (Editor), Robin Kearns (Editor), Karen Witten (Editor)

Overview

How children experience, negotiate and connect with - or resist - their physical and social environment impacts their health and wellbeing. This book brings together different accounts and experiences of children's health and wellbeing in urban environments from majority and minority world perspectives. Privileging children's expertise, this timely collection explicitly explores the relationships between health, wellbeing and place. It draws on the expertise of geographers, educationists, anthropologists, psychologists, planners, nurses and social workers to unpack meanings of physical, social and symbolic environments that constrain or enable children's flourishing in urban spaces.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472446015
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/23/2017
Series:	Geographies of Health Series
Pages:	274
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Christina R. Ergler is a Lecturer in Social Geography at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Robin Kearns is a Professor of Geography in the School of Environment at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Karen Witten is a Professor of Public Health at Massey University, New Zealand.

Table of Contents

Preface. Introduction. Part 1: Neighbourhood Environments 1. The Miasma of Occupation: The Effects of Seen and Unseen Violence on Palestinian Children and Families 2. Children’s Active Transport and Independent Mobility in the Urban Environment 3. How Does the Neighbourhood Built Environment Influence Child Development? 4. Changing Geographies of Children’s Air Pollution Exposure 5. Is Society Now Being Social? 6. Cities That Encourage Happiness Part 2: Home and Away 7. Mobilising Children: The Role of Mobile Communications in Child Mobility 8. The Role of the Geography of Educational Opportunity in the Wellbeing of African American Children 9. Child Medical Travel in Argentina: Narratives of Family Separation and Moving Away from Home 10. Cycles of Violence, Girlhood and Motherhood: Family Formation in Guayaquil’s Shantytowns Part 3: Gardens, Greens and Nature 11. Urban Green Spaces and Childhood Obesity in (Sub)tropical Queensland, Australia 12. Is ‘Natural’ Education Healthy Education? A Comparative Analysis of Forest-based Education and Green Care Spaces in Germany and the UK 13. Being Connected? Well-being Affordances for Suburban and Central City Children Part 4: Viewing Wellbeing 14. Mobilities of Wellbeing in Children’s Health Promotion: Confronting Urban Settings in Geographically Informed Theory and Practice 15. Identity, Place and the (Cultural) Wellbeing of Indigenous Children 16. Ecological Wellbeing, Childhood and Environmental Change. Concluding Remarks: The Atmospheric Attunements of Children and Young People