1st Edition
Children's Health and Wellbeing in Urban Environments
Preface
[Christina R. Ergler, Robin Kearns and Karen Witten]
Introduction
[Christina R. Ergler, Robin Kearns and Karen Witten]
Part 1: Neighbourhood Environments
1. The Miasma of Occupation: The Effects of Seen and Unseen Violence on Palestinian Children and Families
[Bree Akesson]
2. Children’s Active Transport and Independent Mobility in the Urban Environment
[Alison Carver]
3. How Does the Neighbourhood Built Environment Influence Child Development?
[Karen Villanueva, Hannah Badland and Melody Oliver]
4. Changing Geographies of Children’s Air Pollution Exposure
[Shanon Lim, Jennifer A. Salmond and Kim N. Dirks]
5. Is Society Now Being Social?
[Helen Wooley]
6. Cities That Encourage Happiness
[Claire Freeman]
Part 2: Home and Away
7. Mobilising Children: The Role of Mobile Communications in Child Mobility
[Bjorn Nansen, Penelope Carroll, Lisa Gibbs, Colin MacDougall and Frank Vetere]
8. The Role of the Geography of Educational Opportunity in the Wellbeing of African American Children
[Pamela Anne Quiroz and K. Milam Brooks]
9. Child Medical Travel in Argentina: Narratives of Family Separation and Moving Away from Home
[Cecilia Vindrola-Padros and Eugenia Brage]
10. Cycles of Violence, Girlhood and Motherhood: Family Formation in Guayaquil’s Shantytowns
[Alysa Handelsman]
Part 3: Gardens, Greens and Nature
11. Urban Green Spaces and Childhood Obesity in (Sub)tropical Queensland, Australia
[Debra Cushing, Harriot Beazley and Lisa Law]
12. Is ‘Natural’ Education Healthy Education? A Comparative Analysis of Forest-based Education and Green Care Spaces in Germany and the UK
[Silvia Schaeffer and Peter Kraftl]
13. Being Connected? Well-being Affordances for Suburban and Central City Children
[Christina R. Ergler, Robin Kearns, Adrienne de Melo and Tara Coleman]
Part 4: Viewing Wellbeing
14. Mobilities of Wellbeing in Children’s Health Promotion: Confronting Urban Settings in Geographically Informed Theory and Practice
[Jeffrey R. Masuda, Paivi K. Abernethy, Linor David and Diana Lewis]
15. Identity, Place and the (Cultural) Wellbeing of Indigenous Children
[Michelle Thompson-Fawcett and Robin Quigg]
16. Ecological Wellbeing, Childhood and Environmental Change
[Ann E. Bartos and Bronwyn E. Wood]
Concluding Remarks: The Atmospheric Attunements of Children and Young People
[Stuart C. Aitken]
Biography
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.
