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1996 Children's Rights Community Development & Planning Design: Programming & Evaluation Louise Chawla Roger Hart Selim Iltus Urban Poverty & Social/Environmental Justice

Children’s Rights and Habitat: Working Toward Child-Friendly Cities

In Nairobi in 1995, during the second preparatory meeting for the international United Nations Habitat II conference, delegates recognizes that they had been giving insufficient attention in their agenda to the special needs of children for sage, secure and healthy living conditions. A child caucus, composed mainly of non-governmental organizations with Plan International in a […]

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1988 Children, Nature & Sustainability Louise Chawla Publications Roger Hart

The Roots of Environmental Concern

In the first step to construct a model of the development of environmental concern, theories of children’s understanding of environmental processes are moral development are reviewed. Connections between development in these fields and development of environmental concern are suggest. It is proposed that there are three motivations for environmental concern, which involve separate but overlapping paths […]

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1994 Children, Nature & Sustainability Louise Chawla Publications Roger Hart

Learning Through Gardening

This publication includes two brief essay, one by Roger Hart, and the other by Louise Chawla. In each the authors address the role of gardening in the development of children’s understanding of their environment, and their desire to care for it. Click here to download [PDF] Title:  Learning Through Gardening Author(s): Roger Hart, Louise Chawla Publication Date: 1994 Publisher: American […]

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1995 Children, Nature & Sustainability Louise Chawla Publications Roger Hart

The Roots of Environmental Concern

This paper is a fist stage in the construction of a model of the development of children’s concern for the physical environment. To explore this process of development, it will consider sources of environmental knowledge and emotional investment, and some model of the origins of environmental knowledge, emotion and action will be applied to suggest […]

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1982 Children, Nature & Sustainability Ecological Study of Children’s Lives Louise Chawla Publications Roger Hart

The Development of Children’s Concern for the Environment

In a first step to construct a model of the development of an environmental concern, literature is reviewed regarding children’s understanding of environmental processes, their motivations for engagement with the physical world, and their moral development. Political socialization, which hear upon their likelihood of taking action, is also reviewed. Connections between development in these fields […]