Children and Climate Change
Children and Climate Change
Karina Padilla Malca, University of Edinburgh
Judith Van Hoorn, University of the Pacific, California
Susie Burke, University of Queensland
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USDThe existential threat posed by climate change presents a challenge to all those concerned about the next generation. This Element reviews and discusses its implications for the development of children (ages 0-12) today and in the future, and for the parents, teachers, researchers, and professionals who have responsibility for children. This Element adopts a bioecological model to examine both the direct impacts on children's physical and psychological well-being as well as indirect impacts through all the systems external to the child, emphasizing the greater vulnerability of children in the Global South. Given evidence of well-founded climate anxiety, this Element examines children's coping strategies and discusses the key roles of caregivers and schools in protecting and preparing children to face current and future challenges – with knowledge, hope, and agency as central themes. This Element highlights many under-researched areas and calls for action by all those caring for and about children's future.
Product details
September 2022Paperback
9781009114950
75 pages
228 × 152 × 5 mm
0.14kg
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction and overview
- 2. Impacts of exposure to climate-related events on children's health, development, and well-being
- 3. Children's knowledge and feelings about climate change
- 4. Coping with climate change
- 5. Parenting in the age of climate crisis
- 6. Climate change education
- 7. Preparing children for the world they will inherit as adults
- 8. Conclusions, future directions, and a call to action
- References.
