L Chawla
Biographic Data
| ID | 23944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Chawla |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Chawla |
| SIGNATURE | CHAWLA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2889-4267 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 228 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Nature Prescribing or Nature Programming? Complementary Practices to Increase Time in Nature to Support Mental Health
There is extensive evidence that when people have parks, gardens, and greenery near their homes, they gain mental and physical health benefits. As a result, there are a number of health care initiatives to motivate people to spend time in local green spaces. This article proposes a network of access and engagement with nature to support health and well-being: Equitable access to nearby nature spaces; nature prescriptions to encourage people to in…
Forest Bathing Increases Adolescent Connection to Nature: A Mixed Methods Study
Previous research has demonstrated that practicing forest bathing has significant positive effects on well-being. However, few studies have investigated whether forest bathing increases practitioner connectedness to nature or involved adolescent participants. Determining if forest bathing increases connectedness to nature is a critical expansion of forest bathing research, as connectedness to nature is linked to environmental care and concern as …
Forest Bathing Increases Adolescents’ Mental Well-Being: A Mixed-Methods Study
Previous research has demonstrated that practicing forest bathing has significant positive effects on adult psychological well-being. Considering the ongoing adolescents' mental health crisis of increasing anxiety and depression, determining whether forest bathing has similar effects on adolescents is an important expansion of forest bathing research. This study investigated the possibility that forest bathing could improve adolescents' mental we…
Young people’s experiences of participation in ecological restoration
This narrative review is the first to focus on how young people themselves express their experiences of participation in ecological restoration projects, as a guide to creating projects that engage them effectively. It gathers 10 qualitative and mixed-method studies that document young people's experiences through observations, interviews, focus groups, drawings, narratives and other methods, in order to investigate two questions: (1) How do youn…
Schools That Heal: Design with Mental Health in Mind by Claire Latané
Reviewed by: Schools That Heal: Design with Mental Health in Mind by Claire Latané Louise Chawla Schools That Heal: Design with Mental Health in Mind Claire Latané (2021) Island Press, 280 pages $35.00 (paperback), ISBN 9781642830781 $34.99 (e-book), ISBN 9781642830798 By many indicators, children and adolescents face serious mental health risks. In early 2022, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the United States released a new report that …
The Necessity of Urban Green Space for Children's Optimal Development: A Discussion Paper by Suchitra Sugar (review)
Book Review: The Necessity of Urban Green Space for Children's Optimal... 180 The Necessity of Urban Green Space for Children's Optimal Development: A Discussion Paper Suchitra Sugar (2021) New York: UNICEF, 44 pages Available as a free download at https://www.unicef.org/documents/necessityurban -green-space-childrens-optimal-development A new discussion paper from UNICEF, The Necessity of Urban Green Space for Children's Optimal Development, sig…
Childhood nature connection and constructive hope: A review of research on connecting with nature and coping with environmental loss
Within a generation, children's lives have largely moved indoors, with the loss of free‐ranging exploration of the nearby natural world, even as research indicates that direct experiences of nature in childhood contribute to care for nature across the life span. In response, many conservation organizations advocate connecting children with nature, and there has been rising interest in measuring young people's connectedness with nature, understand…
Many Children in the Woods: Applying Principles of Community-Based Social Marketing to a Family Nature Club
A “new nature movement” to connect people to nature for health and well-being has encouraged the formation of family nature clubs (FNCs), which regularly bring groups of families together to enjoy nearby natural areas. This paper presents a case study of a new FNC. Principles of community-based social marketing (CBSM) were applied to design and analyze the club's functioning. Although this study showed that barriers to time in nature remained hig…
Benefits of Nature Contact for Children
This review examines different ways that contact with nature can contribute to the health and well-being of children. Applying the capabilities approach to human development for a broad definition of well-being, it traces research from the 1970s to the present, following shifting research approaches that investigate different dimensions of health. A compelling body of evidence exists that trees and natural areas are essential elements of healthy …
Environmental identity formation in nonformal environmental education programs
This paper explores experiences that remained salient in the memories of former participants in three nature-based programs in Colorado, five to forty years after childhood involvement. Interviews with program founders and staff, archival research, and observations of current activities provided an understanding of each program’s history, mission and educational approach. In this context, 18 former participants were interviewed about program expe…
Green schoolyards as havens from stress and resources for resilience in childhood and adolescence
The Development of Conservation Behaviors in Childhood and Youth
With a focus on childhood and adolescence, this chapter seeks to understand how people come to act responsibly on behalf of the environment. It begins with a brief overview of selected theories related to the development of agency and the motivation to act as a framework for research reviews in three areas of young people’s experience: informal play and exploration in nature; environmental education programs in schools and in the field; and wilde…
Childhood Experiences Associated with Care for the Natural World: A Theoretical Framework for Empirical Results
A growing literature shows that active care for the environment in adulthood is frequently associated with positive experiences of nature in childhood or adolescence, along with childhood role models who gave the natural world appreciative attention. This article offers a framework for understanding this finding, drawing on two bodies of theory: the ecological psychology of James Gibson, Eleanor Gibson and Edward Reed, and the attachment theories…
Education for strategic environmental behavior
This article reviews four bodies of research that shed light on how to promote active care for the environment in children and youth: research on sources of proenvironmental behavior, socialization for democratic skills and values, the development of a personal sense of competence, and the development of collective competence. The article begins with an overview of studies of formative childhood experiences reported by environmental activists and…
Research methods to investigate significant life experiences: Review and recommendations
This article reviews different research approaches to understanding the significant experiences that influence people’s environmental concern and behaviour, with an emphasis on identifying the strengths and weaknesses of existing studies. It also reviews relevant findings regarding the validity of autobiographical memory, as memory is the medium which selects and interprets the significant events reported to researchers. The review notes promisin…
The missing population at the 2006 World Urban Forum
This comment discusses the lack of attention given to children at the June 2006 World Urban Forum in Vancouver. Although progress was made in terms of the recognition given to youth at this Forum, only two out of 162 events focused on the concerns of children under the age of 15 - a group that constitutes almost one-third of the world’s population. This failure is not unique to this Forum, but reflects a broader failure to integrate attention to …
TheGrowing Up in CitiesProject: Global Perspectives on Children and Youth as Catalysts for Community Change
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child contains a set of “participation clauses” which are leading members of development agencies, municipal offices, and community organizations to incorporate children and youth into community planning. The Growing Up in Cities project of UNESCO provides a model for doing this, with a focus on low-income areas of special concern for urban policy-makers. The authors describe a case study of this…
Insight, creativity and thoughts on the environment”: Integrating children and youth into human settlement development
This paper discusses the benefits of involving children in planning and managing human settlements both for the children, as they learn the formal skills of democracy, and for the wider community, as young people contribute their knowledge, energies and perceptions about local environments, and remind adults of their rights and their special needs and vulnerabilities. Children learn active and responsible citizenship through opportunities to prac…
We know something someone doesn’t know”: Children speak out on local conditions in Johannesburg
This article summarizes the findings of a four-site study of children’s needs and priorities, part of the process to transform Greater Johannesburg into a child friendly city. Applying the Growing Up in Cities model, it presents the voices of 10 to 14-year-olds from four diverse but representative areas of the city. For each of these areas, boys and girls describe their use of their local environments, the places they value or fear, the problems …
We know something someone doesn't know: Children speak out on local conditions in Johannesburg
This article summarizes the findings of a four-site study of children’s needs and priorities, part of the process to transform Greater Johannesburg into a child friendly city. Applying the Growing Up in Cities model, it presents the voices of 10 to 14-year-olds from four diverse but representative areas of the city. For each of these areas, boys and girls describe their use of their local environments, the places they value or fear, the problems …
Children's Competence and the Ecology of Communities: A Functional Approach to the Evaluation of Participation
Children in South Africa Can Make a Difference: An Assessment of `Growing Up in Cities' in Johannesburg
The article presents the evaluation of two Johannesburg sites of `Growing Up in Cities', a project that involves children in documenting and improving their urban environments, with respect to the effect of project participation. Participating children and their parents were surveyed or interviewed regarding the project's value and effect on the children. In addition, the children were measured on scales of self-esteem, locus of control and self-…
Children in South Africa Can Make a Difference: An assessment of 'Growing Up in Cities' in Johannesburg
Significant Life Experiences Revisited Once Again: Response to Vol. 5(4) 'Five Critical Commentaries on Significant Life Experience Research in Environmental Education
This article is a commentary on commentaries: a personal response to a set of critical commentaries on significant life experience research which formed a special issue of Environmental Education Research , Vol. 5(4), November 1999, and a symposium on the same subject at the Annual Meeting 2000 of the American Educational Research Association. The journal issue and the symposium session were prepared in response to research reports and reviews of…
Rhetoric, reality and resilience: Overcoming obstacles to young people’s participation in development
This paper describes the difficult relationships among those implementing an action research project with children in a low-income settlement in Bangalore (India), the distant and unresponsive bureaucracy of an international funding agency, and the authoritarian management of the NGO through whom its money was channelled. This case study highlights the difficulties that international agencies face in operationalizing the principles of grassroots …
Education for strategic environmental behavior
This article reviews four bodies of research that shed light on how to promote active care for the environment in children and youth: research on sources of proenvironmental behavior, socialization for democratic skills and values, the development of a personal sense of competence, and the development of collective competence. The article begins with an overview of studies of formative childhood experiences reported by environmental activists and…
Green schoolyards as havens from stress and resources for resilience in childhood and adolescence
Children's Competence and the Ecology of Communities: A Functional Approach to the Evaluation of Participation
Insight, creativity and thoughts on the environment”: Integrating children and youth into human settlement development
This paper discusses the benefits of involving children in planning and managing human settlements both for the children, as they learn the formal skills of democracy, and for the wider community, as young people contribute their knowledge, energies and perceptions about local environments, and remind adults of their rights and their special needs and vulnerabilities. Children learn active and responsible citizenship through opportunities to prac…
Research methods to investigate significant life experiences: Review and recommendations
This article reviews different research approaches to understanding the significant experiences that influence people’s environmental concern and behaviour, with an emphasis on identifying the strengths and weaknesses of existing studies. It also reviews relevant findings regarding the validity of autobiographical memory, as memory is the medium which selects and interprets the significant events reported to researchers. The review notes promisin…
We know something someone doesn’t know”: Children speak out on local conditions in Johannesburg
This article summarizes the findings of a four-site study of children’s needs and priorities, part of the process to transform Greater Johannesburg into a child friendly city. Applying the Growing Up in Cities model, it presents the voices of 10 to 14-year-olds from four diverse but representative areas of the city. For each of these areas, boys and girls describe their use of their local environments, the places they value or fear, the problems …
Environmental identity formation in nonformal environmental education programs
This paper explores experiences that remained salient in the memories of former participants in three nature-based programs in Colorado, five to forty years after childhood involvement. Interviews with program founders and staff, archival research, and observations of current activities provided an understanding of each program’s history, mission and educational approach. In this context, 18 former participants were interviewed about program expe…
Research Methods to Investigate Significant Life Experiences: Review and recommendations
This article reviews different research approaches to understanding the significant experiences that influence people's environmental concern and behavior, with an emphasis on identifying the strengths and weaknesses of existing studies. It also reviews relevant findings regarding the validity of autobiographical memory, as memory is the medium which selects and interprets the significant events reported to researchers. The review notes promising…
Significant Life Experiences Revisited Once Again: Response to Vol. 5(4) 'Five Critical Commentaries on Significant Life Experience Research in Environmental Education
This article is a commentary on commentaries: a personal response to a set of critical commentaries on significant life experience research which formed a special issue of Environmental Education Research , Vol. 5(4), November 1999, and a symposium on the same subject at the Annual Meeting 2000 of the American Educational Research Association. The journal issue and the symposium session were prepared in response to research reports and reviews of…
Rhetoric, reality and resilience: Overcoming obstacles to young people’s participation in development
This paper describes the difficult relationships among those implementing an action research project with children in a low-income settlement in Bangalore (India), the distant and unresponsive bureaucracy of an international funding agency, and the authoritarian management of the NGO through whom its money was channelled. This case study highlights the difficulties that international agencies face in operationalizing the principles of grassroots …
TheGrowing Up in CitiesProject: Global Perspectives on Children and Youth as Catalysts for Community Change
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child contains a set of “participation clauses” which are leading members of development agencies, municipal offices, and community organizations to incorporate children and youth into community planning. The Growing Up in Cities project of UNESCO provides a model for doing this, with a focus on low-income areas of special concern for urban policy-makers. The authors describe a case study of this…
Growing up in cities: A report on research under way
This paper describes the research under way in many cities to help understand how well urban communities function for adolescents from low-income families and how best to work with them in planning and implementing improvements
Young people’s experiences of participation in ecological restoration
This narrative review is the first to focus on how young people themselves express their experiences of participation in ecological restoration projects, as a guide to creating projects that engage them effectively. It gathers 10 qualitative and mixed-method studies that document young people's experiences through observations, interviews, focus groups, drawings, narratives and other methods, in order to investigate two questions: (1) How do youn…
Childhood's changing terrain: Incorporating Childhood Past and Present Into Community Evaluation
Two Kentucky communities are compared to evaluate the changing quality of children's community experience since 1900: Portland, an old working-class area of Louisville, and New Castle, a rural county seat. Through a combination of oral histories, archival re search, and contemporary children's evaluations, pre- and post-World War II com munity resources for children are identified, along with the social contexts of their use. Parallel social and …
Childhood Place Attachments
Childhood's changing terrain: Incorporating Childhood Past and Present Into Community Evaluation
Two Kentucky communities are compared to evaluate the changing quality of children's community experience since 1900: Portland, an old working-class area of Louisville, and New Castle, a rural county seat. Through a combination of oral histories, archival re search, and contemporary children's evaluations, pre- and post-World War II com munity resources for children are identified, along with the social contexts of their use. Parallel social and …
Growing up in cities: A report on research under way
This paper describes the research under way in many cities to help understand how well urban communities function for adolescents from low-income families and how best to work with them in planning and implementing improvements.
Growing up in cities: A report on research under way
This paper describes the research under way in many cities to help understand how well urban communities function for adolescents from low-income families and how best to work with them in planning and implementing improvements
Significant Life Experiences Revisited: A Review of Research on Sources of Environmental Sensitivity
Environmental sensitivity, an important variable in environmental awareness and in the predisposition to take responsible environmental action, has been the subject of a growing body of qualitative research, in which sensitivity is associated with particular kinds of significant life experiences. Studies of significant life experiences of environmental educators and other environmental professionals are reviewed, from original pioneering work thr…
Significant Life Experiences Revisited: A review of research on sources of environmental sensitivity
Beginning with the study of significant life experiences initiated by Tanner, this article reviews a growing body of related research in the form of surveys, interviews, and questionnaires that explore people's accounts of the sources of their environmental interest, concern, and action. The questions, methods, and results of studies in this field are closely compared. In conclusion, the article notes that the experiences that people describe can…
Research Methods to Investigate Significant Life Experiences: Review and recommendations
This article reviews different research approaches to understanding the significant experiences that influence people's environmental concern and behavior, with an emphasis on identifying the strengths and weaknesses of existing studies. It also reviews relevant findings regarding the validity of autobiographical memory, as memory is the medium which selects and interprets the significant events reported to researchers. The review notes promising…
Life Paths Into Effective Environmental Action
Structured, open-ended interviews were conducted with 30 environmentalists in Kentucky and 26 in Norway (35 men, 21 women) who represented a broad range of issues, from wilderness protection to urban planning, to determine the sources of their environmental commitment. Experiences of natural areas, family influences, organizations, negative experiences, and education were mentioned most often. People were also asked about the period in life when …
Significant Life Experiences Revisited Once Again: Response to Vol. 5(4) 'Five Critical Commentaries on Significant Life Experience Research in Environmental Education
This article is a commentary on commentaries: a personal response to a set of critical commentaries on significant life experience research which formed a special issue of Environmental Education Research , Vol. 5(4), November 1999, and a symposium on the same subject at the Annual Meeting 2000 of the American Educational Research Association. The journal issue and the symposium session were prepared in response to research reports and reviews of…
Rhetoric, reality and resilience: Overcoming obstacles to young people’s participation in development
This paper describes the difficult relationships among those implementing an action research project with children in a low-income settlement in Bangalore (India), the distant and unresponsive bureaucracy of an international funding agency, and the authoritarian management of the NGO through whom its money was channelled. This case study highlights the difficulties that international agencies face in operationalizing the principles of grassroots …
Rhetoric, reality and resilience: Overcoming obstacles to young people's participation in development
This paper describes the difficult relationships among those implementing an action research project with children in a low-income settlement in Bangalore (India), the distant and unresponsive bureaucracy of an international funding agency, and the authoritarian management of the NGO through whom its money was channelled. This case study highlights the difficulties that international agencies face in operationalizing the principles of grassroots …
Insight, creativity and thoughts on the environment”: Integrating children and youth into human settlement development
This paper discusses the benefits of involving children in planning and managing human settlements both for the children, as they learn the formal skills of democracy, and for the wider community, as young people contribute their knowledge, energies and perceptions about local environments, and remind adults of their rights and their special needs and vulnerabilities. Children learn active and responsible citizenship through opportunities to prac…
We know something someone doesn’t know”: Children speak out on local conditions in Johannesburg
This article summarizes the findings of a four-site study of children’s needs and priorities, part of the process to transform Greater Johannesburg into a child friendly city. Applying the Growing Up in Cities model, it presents the voices of 10 to 14-year-olds from four diverse but representative areas of the city. For each of these areas, boys and girls describe their use of their local environments, the places they value or fear, the problems …
We know something someone doesn't know: Children speak out on local conditions in Johannesburg
This article summarizes the findings of a four-site study of children’s needs and priorities, part of the process to transform Greater Johannesburg into a child friendly city. Applying the Growing Up in Cities model, it presents the voices of 10 to 14-year-olds from four diverse but representative areas of the city. For each of these areas, boys and girls describe their use of their local environments, the places they value or fear, the problems …
Children's Competence and the Ecology of Communities: A Functional Approach to the Evaluation of Participation
Children in South Africa Can Make a Difference: An Assessment of `Growing Up in Cities' in Johannesburg
The article presents the evaluation of two Johannesburg sites of `Growing Up in Cities', a project that involves children in documenting and improving their urban environments, with respect to the effect of project participation. Participating children and their parents were surveyed or interviewed regarding the project's value and effect on the children. In addition, the children were measured on scales of self-esteem, locus of control and self-…
Children in South Africa Can Make a Difference: An assessment of 'Growing Up in Cities' in Johannesburg
Research methods to investigate significant life experiences: Review and recommendations
This article reviews different research approaches to understanding the significant experiences that influence people’s environmental concern and behaviour, with an emphasis on identifying the strengths and weaknesses of existing studies. It also reviews relevant findings regarding the validity of autobiographical memory, as memory is the medium which selects and interprets the significant events reported to researchers. The review notes promisin…
The missing population at the 2006 World Urban Forum
This comment discusses the lack of attention given to children at the June 2006 World Urban Forum in Vancouver. Although progress was made in terms of the recognition given to youth at this Forum, only two out of 162 events focused on the concerns of children under the age of 15 - a group that constitutes almost one-third of the world’s population. This failure is not unique to this Forum, but reflects a broader failure to integrate attention to …
TheGrowing Up in CitiesProject: Global Perspectives on Children and Youth as Catalysts for Community Change
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child contains a set of “participation clauses” which are leading members of development agencies, municipal offices, and community organizations to incorporate children and youth into community planning. The Growing Up in Cities project of UNESCO provides a model for doing this, with a focus on low-income areas of special concern for urban policy-makers. The authors describe a case study of this…
Childhood Experiences Associated with Care for the Natural World: A Theoretical Framework for Empirical Results
A growing literature shows that active care for the environment in adulthood is frequently associated with positive experiences of nature in childhood or adolescence, along with childhood role models who gave the natural world appreciative attention. This article offers a framework for understanding this finding, drawing on two bodies of theory: the ecological psychology of James Gibson, Eleanor Gibson and Edward Reed, and the attachment theories…
Education for strategic environmental behavior
This article reviews four bodies of research that shed light on how to promote active care for the environment in children and youth: research on sources of proenvironmental behavior, socialization for democratic skills and values, the development of a personal sense of competence, and the development of collective competence. The article begins with an overview of studies of formative childhood experiences reported by environmental activists and…
The Development of Conservation Behaviors in Childhood and Youth
With a focus on childhood and adolescence, this chapter seeks to understand how people come to act responsibly on behalf of the environment. It begins with a brief overview of selected theories related to the development of agency and the motivation to act as a framework for research reviews in three areas of young people’s experience: informal play and exploration in nature; environmental education programs in schools and in the field; and wilde…
Green schoolyards as havens from stress and resources for resilience in childhood and adolescence
Benefits of Nature Contact for Children
This review examines different ways that contact with nature can contribute to the health and well-being of children. Applying the capabilities approach to human development for a broad definition of well-being, it traces research from the 1970s to the present, following shifting research approaches that investigate different dimensions of health. A compelling body of evidence exists that trees and natural areas are essential elements of healthy …
Psychology (26 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (14 works) · Urban Green Space and Health (14 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (13 works) · Geography (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works)