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

By C. Lindgren. 2009

888 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Psychiatry and Mental health

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/effd281e47f6229478d7e478f3e88e04dcc94bc9

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

1. Silvia Collado
2. J. A. Corraliza
3. John M. Zelenski
4. C. Capaldi
5. R. Dopko
6. H. Staats
7. Francisco Zamora-Polo
8. L. le Grange

In Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

1. Francisco Zamora-Polo
2. J. Sánchez-Martín
3. Sandra McClintic
4. Karen H Petty

In Psychiatry and Mental health

1. Francisco Zamora-Polo
2. J. Sánchez-Martín
3. Sandra McClintic
4. Karen H Petty

Citations in the corpus

• Teaching for a Better World. Sustainability and Sustainable Development Goals in the Construction of a Change-Maker University (2019, background): “This is a subjective vision, but they probably can be considered the origins of sustainability as an integral concept [47,48].”
• 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).”
• Connectedness as a Core Conservation Concern: An Interdisciplinary Review of Theory and a Call for Practice (2014, background): “Under certain conditions, CWN acts as a trigger for spiritual, self-transcendence, and unifying experiences [28, 47, 87, 153, 154, 192].”
• 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).”
• The Role of Nature-Based Experiences in the Development and Maintenance of Wellness (2010, background): “Louv (2008) considered this disconnection a crisis which he termed “Nature Deficit Disorder.””
• Exploring potential mechanisms involved in the relationship between eudaimonic wellbeing and nature connection (2017, neutral): “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).”
• Effect of frequency and mode of contact with nature on children's self-reported ecological behaviors (2015, background): “Researchers and educators are warning about the reduction of time spent in nature (Clements, 2004) and the negative consequences this alienation from the natural world may have on children's health, as well as on their EB (Louv, 2008).”
• 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).”