Articles and Reports

Guidance on Nature’s Benefits in the Development of Children and Adolescents
2024

Nature-based Education for Planetary Health
Nov 2023

The Necessity of Urban Green Space for Children’s Optimal Development

Trends and Emerging Ideas Influencing the
Children and Nature Movement
Dec 2023

Seeds to Blooms:
A Report on Nature-based Early Childhood Education at Antioch University
Dec 2021

Wisdom Traditions, Science and Care for the Earth: Pathways to Responsible Action
2020

Connecting with Nature to Care for Ourselves and the Earth. 
2018

Leading from the Heart of Nature
2017

Home to Us All
How Connecting with Nature Helps Us Care for Ourselves and the Earth
Nov 2018

Parks: The International Journal of Protected Areas and Conservation
November 2014

Battling the Nature Deficit with Nature Play –
An Interview with Cheryl Charles and Richard Louv
American Journal of Play Fall 2011

The Ecology of Hope:
Natural Guides to Building a Children and Nature Movement
Paul F-Brandwein Lecture 2009

The Ecology of Hope:
Reconnecting Children and Nature
Connect Magazine May/June 2008

Partnering and Parenting
Windstar Journal Winter 88/89

Educating for Ecological Literacy
Windstar Journal Spring 1988

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