Child Friendly Environments: Factors Influencing Children’s Activities
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Children's Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 32141
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable urbanization and travel behavior; urban planning and design; children’s outdoor behavior
Interests: social and healthy living environments; urban green; experiences; wellbeing
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Interests: sustainable transport; behavior change; social impacts of transport; children’s travel; transport and wellbeing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Many children across the world do not currently meet the recommended levels of physical activity. Participation in physical activity provides many benefits for the physical and mental health and cognitive development of children. While the importance of outdoor play and independent travel has been recognized, children’s outdoor time has reduced over the past several decades. Children’s leisure time is increasingly spent indoors and supervised rather than independently outdoors. Parents are increasingly placing restrictions on their children due to perceived risks, resulting in lower levels of physical activity.
To turn this trend around, the urban environment should become safer and more child friendly. To achieve this, many approaches are necessary, including: insight into mechanisms of behavior change, parental perceptions and decisions; the influence of the community (or social environment), technology, or policies on independent travel and play; how the physical built environment facilitates or limits children’s play and travel. This Special Issue, therefore, invites papers with new empirical findings on how urban environments can better facilitate children’s activities and how this is related to their wellbeing, as well as papers on urban interventions to increase children’s wellbeing and high-quality systematic reviews related to child-friendly environments. Child-centered perspectives (i.e., direct input from children as opposed to through solely parents’ views) are encouraged.
Dr. Dena Kasraian
Dr. Pauline Van den Berg
Dr. E. Owen D. Waygood
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- children
- living environment
- health
- wellbeing
- play
- active travel
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