Last child in the woods : saving our children from nature-deficit disorder

By R. Louv. 2008

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Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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Exploring potential mechanisms involved in the relationship between eudaimonic wellbeing and nature connection (2017, background): “Certain initiatives already have this relationship as their central focus, for example, widespread initiatives to reconnect children to nature (Louv, 2008) and campaigns such as 30 Days Wild (M. Richardson et al., 2016).”
Navigating the Back Loop: Fostering Social Innovation and Transformation in Ecosystem Management (2010, background): “Although many environmental awareness activities already exist, it is clear that there is substantial scope for expanding interaction with local ecosystems in modern societies (Louv 2008).”
Activity, exercise and the planning and design of outdoor spaces (2013, background): “Environmental support, or lack of it, for children’s active travel (walking or cycling) and play has received a great deal of attention recently as concern over children’s constrained environments, obesity and declining levels of physical activity and poverty of real world experience have been artic”
Exploring Early Childhood Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices About Preschool Outdoor Play: A Qualitative Study (2015, background): “Outdoor play is critical for many developmental tasks and without direct outdoor experiences it is unlikely that children will have an understanding of the natural world and how to sustain it (Bilton, 2010; Garrick, 2004; Louv, 2008; Tovey, 2007).”
The effect of “green exercise” on state anxiety and the role of exercise duration, intensity, and greenness: A quasi-experimental study (2010, background): “As urbanisation increases, people find themselves concentrated in neighbourhoods of impoverished biodiversity, bringing with it the possible loss of the opportunity to appreciate and benefit from nature (Louv, 2008; Turner, Nakamura, & Dinetti, 2004).”
Soundscape Ecology: The Science of Sound in the Landscape (2011, background): “In contrast, urban soundscapes are described as containing little acoustic information (Schafer 1977), reinforcing a growing disconnect between humans and nature (Louv 2008).”
Learning outdoors: the Forest School approach (2009, background): “The importance of contact with nature for child development There are growing concerns among a range of organisations within British and American society about the lack of access to nature by children (Kahn and Kellert 2002; Bell, Ward Thompson, and Travlou 2004; Thomas and Thompson 2004; Louv 2005;”
Children in nature: sensory engagement and the experience of biodiversity (2018, background): “…by extensive and often passive consumption of technology, an over-emphasis on the ‘written word,’ and indoor educational settings, appears to be contributing to human disconnection from nature (Faber Taylor and Kuo 2006; Kahn, Severson, and ruckert 2009; Louv 2005; Pyle and Orr 2008; Taylor 2013).”
The psychological and social benefits of a nature experience for children: A preliminary investigation (2019, background): “Children today are spending less time outside than previous generations (Burdette & Whitaker, 2005; Clements, 2004; Juster, Ono, & Stafford, 2004; Louv, 2005).”