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The concrete jungle: Environmental awareness and experiences of nature among urban children.

机译：具体丛林：城市儿童的环保意识和自然体验。

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This study voices children's (ages 10-12) experiences of nature, awareness of environmental problems, and environmental concerns through 50 in-depth interviews and child-drawn maps across three urban neighborhoods representing various socioeconomic settings and environmental conditions. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological lens, this study describes and interprets children's nature experiences and feelings about environmental problems with special attention to the perspectives of minority children growing up in environmentally degraded and low-income neighborhoods. Understanding children's perspectives regarding these issues is important, especially given the profound effects that direct experience of nature have on their physical and psychological development, and considering that children are important environmental stakeholders, consumers, residents, and future voters facing the pernicious effects of local and global environmental degradation.;Findings revealed that a majority of children had positive nature experiences and shared a desire to spend more time in natural settings. These findings suggest that regardless of socioeconomic background and environmental conditions, many children still manage to build positive relationships with the natural world. However, findings also showed that children confront multiple barriers to experiencing nature, including fear of strangers, gang violence, lack of free time, parental concern, and lack of access to nature. These barriers ultimately hindered their consistent, unstructured, and safe interactions with nearby nature. A majority of children also expressed sadness, fear, and pessimism about local and global environmental problems as well as apocalyptic predictions about the future state of the planet. These results suggest that many children are becoming "ecophobic," or fearful of environmental problems, which scholars argue, has serious implications for children's participation in environmental stewardship and conservation efforts more broadly.;Voicing the opinions and concerns of these children sheds light on the numerous social and environmental challenges that many urban children confront, and should motivate urban planners, public health professionals, government bodies, and parents to work together with children to ensure the protection of both the health of children and the planet.
机译：这项研究通过跨越三个代表不同社会经济环境和环境条件的城市社区进行的50次深度访谈和儿童绘制的地图，表达了儿童（10至12岁）的自然经历，对环境问题的关注以及对环境的关注。本研究使用解释现象学的镜头，描述和解释儿童的自然经历和对环境问题的感受，并特别注意在环境退化和低收入社区中成长的少数民族儿童的观点。了解儿童对这些问题的观点非常重要，特别是考虑到自然的直接经验对其身心发展产生的深远影响，并考虑到儿童是重要的环境利益相关者，消费者，居民和未来的选民，他们面临着当地人和儿童的有害影响。研究结果表明，大多数儿童有积极的自然经历，并渴望在自然环境中花费更多的时间。这些发现表明，无论社会经济背景和环境条件如何，许多儿童仍然设法与自然世界建立积极的关系。然而，研究结果还表明，儿童在体验自然方面面临多重障碍，包括对陌生人的恐惧，帮派暴力，缺乏自由时间，父母的关注以及缺乏接触自然的机会。这些障碍最终阻碍了它们与附近自然的一致，无组织和安全的相互作用。大多数儿童还对本地和全球环境问题表示悲伤，恐惧和悲观，并对地球的未来状况做出了启示性的预测。这些结果表明，许多儿童正在变得“排斥环境”，或担心环境问题，学者们认为，这对儿童更广泛地参与环境管理和保护工作产生了严重的影响。许多城市儿童面临着众多的社会和环境挑战，应该激发城市规划者，公共卫生专业人员，政府机构和父母与儿童一起工作，以确保保护儿童和地球的健康。

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    Strife, Susan.;

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    University of Colorado at Boulder.;

  • 授予单位 University of Colorado at Boulder.;
  • 学科 Sociology General.;Environmental Sciences.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2009
  • 页码 277 p.
  • 总页数 277
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 社会学;环境科学基础理论;
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