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Euler, A. 1989). A comparative study of the effectiveness of a local environmental center's program for urban sixth-grader's environmental knowledge and attitudes. Children's Environments Quarterly 6 (2/3): 34-41.

James, K. (1993). A qualitative study of factors influencing racial diversity in environmental education. Doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota.

Kahn, P. H. & Friedman, B (1995). Environmental views and values of children in an inner-city Black community. Child Development 66 (5): 1403-1417. (WL)

Myers, G. (1997, August). Significant life experiences and choice of major among undergraduate minorities and nonminority students majoring in environmental studies and other disciplines. Paper presented at the annual conference of NAAEE, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Pyle, R. M. (1993). Thunder tree: Lessons from an urban wildland. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Running Grass (1994). Environmental education for environmental justice: A Three Circles perspective. Sausalito, CA: Three Circles Center.

Simmons, D. A. (1994). Urban children's preferences for nature: Lessons for environmental education. Children's Environments Quarterly 11 (3): 194-203.

Taylor, A. F., Wiley, A., Kuo, F, & Sullivan, W. (1998). Growing up in the inner city: Green places as places to grow. Environment and Behavior, 30(1), p. 3-27.

Taylor, A. F., Kuo, F. & Sullivan W. (2001). Coping with ADD: The surprising connection to green play settings. Environment and Behavior vol.33(1), p.54-77.

United States Forest Service (1977). Children, nature and the urban environment: Proceedings of a symposium-fair. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report NE-30. (ERIC # ED156744)

Wals, A. (1994). Nobody planted it, it just grew! Young adolescents' perceptions and experiences of nature in the context of urban environmental education. Children's Environments Quarterly 11 (3): 177-193.

Weintraub, B. A. (1995). Defining fulfilling and relevant environmental education. Urban Education (Oct.): 337-66.

Williams, E. & Agyeman, J. (1999). Educating for a more livable urban environment. Eeducator (pp. 26-31). NAAEE.
 

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Dyar, N. (1976). Assessing the environmental attitudes and behaviors of a seventh grade school population. (Doctoral dissertation, University of California at Berkeley, 1975). Dissertation Abstracts International, 37(1), 110-A. UMI No. 76-15, 167.

Keen, M. (1991). The effect of Sunship Earth Program on knowledge and attitude development. Journal of Environmental Education, 22(3), 28-32.

Leeming, F. C., Dwyer, W. O. & Bracken (1995). Children's environmental attitude and knowledge scale: Construction and validation. Journal of Environmental Education 26(3): 22-31. (WL)

Leeming, F. C., Porter, B. E., Dwyer, W. O., Cobern, M. K. & Oliver, D. P (1997). Effects of participation in class activities on children's environmental attitude and knowledge. Journal of Environmental Education 28(2): 33-42. (WL)

Ramsey, J., & Hungerford, H. (1989). The effects of issue instruction and action training on environmental behavior in seventh grade students. Journal of Environmental Education, 20(4), 29-34.

Ramsey, J. (1993). The effects of issue investigation and action training on eighth-grade students' environmental behavior. Journalof Environmental Education, 24(3), 31-36.

Simpson, P. (1989). The effects of an extended case study on citizenship behavior and associated variables in fifth and sixth grade students. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the North American Association for Environmental Education, St. Paul, MN, Sept. 27-Oct. 2.

Ward, M. (1981). A study of the effects a residential outdoor education experience had on adults who attended a program in Rockford as students in 1963 and 1966. In L. Iozzi (Ed.), Research in environmental education, 1971-1980, (Abstract No. 425, p. 385). Columbus, OH: ERIC/SMEAC.

Monroe, M. C. & DeYoung, R. (1994). The role of interest in environmental information: A new agenda. Children's Environments Quarterly 11 (3): 243-250.

Sinclair, P. K. (1992). E for environment : an annotated bibliography of children's books with environmental themes. New Providence, NJ: R.R. Bowker. (WLR)

Wolschke-Bulmahn, J. & Gröning, G. (1994). Children's comics: An opportunity for education to know and care for nature? Children's Environments Quarterly 11 (3): 232-242.

William, R., Bidlack, C. & Brinson, B. (1994). The Rivers Curriculum Project: A cooperative interdisciplinary model. Children's Environments Quarterly 11 (3): 251-254.

Bearer, C. F. (1995). Environmental health hazards: How children are different from adults. The Future of Children 5(2): 11-26.

Freedman, T. & Weir, D. (1983). Polluting the most vulnerable. The Nation (14 May): 600-604. (WL)

Goldman, L. R. Case studies of environmental risks to children. The Future of Children 5(2): 27-33.

Landrigan, P. J. & Carlson, J. E. Environmental policy and children's health. The Future of Children 5(2): 34-52.

Morrison, M. (1991). Improving the safety of playgrounds. Children's Environments Quarterly 8 (3/4): 69-70.

Peterson, L., Cook, S., Little, T. & Schick, B. (1991). "Mom lets me go there": The role of environment and supervision in children's minor injuries. Children's Environments Quarterly 8 (3/4): 15-23.

Tesman, J. R. & Hills, A. (1994). Developmental effects of lead exposure in children. Social policy report 8(3). Washington DC: Society for Research in Child Development.

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Kaplan, R. & Kaplan, S. (1989). The experience of nature: A psychological perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.

Kellert, S. (1996). The value of life: Biological diversity and human society. San Francisco: Island (WL)

Kellert, S. & Wilson, E. O. (Eds.) (1993). The biophilia hypothesis. Washington DC: Island Press. (WLR)

Riley, R. B. (1992). Attachment to the ordinary landscape. In I. Altman & S. M. Low (Eds.) Human behavior and the environment: Advances in theory and research, Vol. 12, Place Attachment (pp. 13-36). New York: Plenum. (BF353 .H85 v12)

Shepard, P. (1978). Thinking animals. New York: Viking. (QL85.S5)

Shepard, P. (1973). The tender carnivore and the sacred game. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. (GF47.S5)

Shepard, P. (1982). Nature and madness. San Francisco: Sierra Club. (GF75.S53)

Shepard, P. (1991). Man in the landscape. College Station: Texas A & M Univ. (BH 301.N3 S45)

Stokols, D. & Altman, I. (Eds.) (1987). Handbook of environmental psychology. New York: Wiley. (BF 353.H26 1987, vol. 1 & 2)

Tuan, Y. (1974). Topophilia: A study of environmental perception, attitudes, and values. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentise-Hall. (WL)

Tuan, Y. (1977). Space and place: The perspective of experience. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Pr. (WL)

Wilson, E. O. (1984). Biophilia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University. (WL)

Sivek, D., & Hungerford, H. (1989/90). Predictors of responsible behavior in members of three Wisconsin conservation organizations. Journal of Environmental Education, 21(2), 35-40.

Stern, P.C., Dietz, T., Abel, T., Guagnano, G.A. and Kalof, L. (1999). A Value-Belief-Norm Theory of Support for Social Movements: The Case of Environmentalism. Human Ecology Review, 6(2), 81-97.
 

Research on Place and Space web page

Do an on-line search under environmental education, children and nature, children and environment, biophilia, ecopsychology, spatial perception, spatial cognition, environmental psychology, specific environments, etc

Many areas of child development are relevant. Articles on these topics are not included on this list because they are so numerous. There are many books; consider also journals like Child development; Developmental Psychology. One book mentioned in Nabhan & Trimble is: Konner, M. (1991). Childhood. Boston: Little, Brown. (HQ781.K66)

ERIC Documents - search on-line at Wilson; microfiche on 5th floor.

Search Environment Abstracts - worth trying; any item with a * is on microfiche

WL Journals: Journal of Environmental Education; Environment and Behavior; Landscape; Journal of Environmental psychology