What are the drivers of and barriers to children’s direct experiences of nature?

Soga, Masashi; Yamanoi, Takahiro; Tsuchiya, Kazuaki; Koyanagi, Tomoyo F.; Kanai, Tadashi

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.08.015

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“…My findings show specifically that district park area is associated with social and cognitive development and local park area is associated with emotional development when accounting for socio-economic disadvantage. Findings also show that tree cover at district parks is linked to emotional maturity, and tree cover at local parks is linked to social competence, aligning with attention restoration theory (Kaplan 1995 and air pollution mitigation (Abhijith et al 2017) as well as indirect benefits obtained through park visitation and experiences of nature (Frumkin et al 2017;Soga et al 2018).…”

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Growing up healthy in the city: Pathways to child health and development benefits from nature

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Parks are an important health setting for children living in cities, providing opportunities for play and exposure to nature. While there is growing evidence of associations between nature and physical, social, emotional and cognitive health and development outcomes for young children, few studies have specifically examined how young urban dwelling children interact with different types of nature and how these experiences may contribute to child health and development. The aim of this thesis is to investigate associations between healthy child development and exposure to, and interaction with, specific elements of nature while considering family and community contexts.

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Growing up healthy in the city: Pathways to child health and development benefits from nature

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“…The urban forest is lacking amenities and facilities for children's play, and challenging play equipment is an important factor that attracts children to play outdoors (Aziz & Said 2012). Parental concern about safety in the urban forest may prevent children to use it because parent's attitude about the natural environment was said to have a significant impact on children's attitude (Soga et al 2018). In this situation, parents in Malang should show a more positive attitude towards the urban forest, for example by taking their children to visit the urban forest.…”

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“…Within this situation, Indonesian children, especially those in an urban area will lose the benefit provided by green space if the green space continues to decrease. At the same time, urbanization has been thought to decrease nature related experience for children (Shanahan et al 2017;Soga et al 2018). The high proportion of urban areas are made of artificial material and is segregated from a natural system and process White et al 2018).…”

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“…As the increase of urbanization and population continue in Indonesia (Arifin & Nakagoshi 2011;Agaton et al 2016), it is important to understand how children in urban area use green space. We also need to pay attention to parents, who are significantly affected childrens' use and perception of natural places, including green space (Soga et al 2018).…”

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The Actual Use of Green Spaces by Children and Parents in Malang, Indonesia

Hartatik

Itaya

2018

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Green spaces in developing countries are often destroyed and degraded for other land uses. As increases in urbanization and population continue in Indonesia, it will be increasingly important to discuss green spaces around children. In this study, the actual use of urban green spaces by children was investigated through questionnaires for children and their parents, and the strategy for increasing opportunity to use urban green spaces was discussed in Malang, a region of progressing urbanization in Indonesia. A total of 147 questionnaires were received from the children and 145 from their parents. While there were few green spaces around schools in Malang, especially in the center of the city, fortunately, children liked to play in the outside more than other studies. However, children preferred to spend their time in well-maintained or level areas, such as parks and open fields. It might be important to provide parks with enough vegetation and attractive program within their living area in order to make them use green spaces. The cooperation with companies as corporate social responsibility program for developing environmental education programs might be effective.

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“…In rural-urban land conversion, fragmented habitats are increasing, and patches are generally small and isolated [44,45]. Soga et al [46]) described this progressive separation of humans from ecosystems as the "extinction of experience", especially for children, and viewed it as a major public health issue.…”

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Quantifying Ecological Well-Being Loss under Rural–Urban Land Conversion: A Study from Choice Experiments in China

Han

Min

2020

Sustainability

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Rural-urban land conversion has led to the degradation of agricultural system ecological services, and therefore human ecological well-being. There is a need to transform the non-marketed value of ecosystem services provision into a monetary loss of ecological well-being in rural-urban land conversion, which could serve as a basis for ecological compensation. In this paper, a choice experiment method is adopted to investigate the willingness-to-pay (WTP) of rural and urban residents in six cities of three provinces selected from different regions in China. The results reveal that the attributes reflecting the ecological well-being of rural and urban residents are experiencing different degrees of decline. Two attributes, health and security, show the most obvious decline among all ecological well-being attributes for urban residents. In view of stakeholders, rural residents are facing a greater decline in ecological well-being than urban residents, which is mainly driven by their different linkages and interactions with the agro-ecosystem. In terms of regional comparisons, residents in the central region (Hubei Province) of China are subject to the sharpest decline in ecological well-being, followed by those living in the western region (Guizhou Province) and the eastern region (Guangdong Province). These differences are basically determined by their land resource conditions and socioeconomic circumstances. This paper argues that it is pressing to establish an ecological compensation mechanism to regulate rural-urban land conversion and maintain human ecological well-being.Sustainability 2020, 12, 3378 2 of 17 to provide various ES to human beings is gradually diminished, with the potential to further reduce human well-being [1,[9][10][11].Globally, it is one of the major challenges for policy-makers to keep a trade-off between economic development and agro-ecosystem protection. In most developing countries, especially in southern Africa and Asia, rapid urbanization and increasing human population are driving massive land transformation [12][13][14]. With the largest population and relatively scarce land resources, China has witnessed a significant growth in urbanization [15,16]. In recent years, ecological risks caused by rural-urban land conversion have attracted growing attention. The Central Government of the Communist Party of China (CPC) put forward the strategy of ecological civilization to reconcile the relationship between human and nature, taking "optimization of the spatial layout", "effective regulation of development scale", and "improvement of the ecology system" as main guidelines of future development mode. It is increasingly presenting not only as a response to eco-environment degradation in China but as a vision for our global future [17].Researchers have been sharing growing concerns about the impacts of rural-urban land conversion on agricultural ES and their impacts on human well-being. Several studies have adopted physical assessment methods [18][19][20] to uncover the relations between agri...

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What are the drivers of and barriers to children’s direct experiences of nature?

Cited by 94 publications

References 36 publications

Growing up healthy in the city: Pathways to child health and development benefits from nature

Growing up healthy in the city: Pathways to child health and development benefits from nature

The Actual Use of Green Spaces by Children and Parents in Malang, Indonesia

Quantifying Ecological Well-Being Loss under Rural–Urban Land Conversion: A Study from Choice Experiments in China

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