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Tables of Contents for The Environment for Children
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
v
List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
vi
About the Authors
ix
Preface
xii
The Environment for Children
1
32
The Main Environmental Issues
1
3
The Need for a Safe Environment
4
2
Links between the Environment and Child Health
6
1
The Home Environment
7
8
Underlying Social, Economic and Political Causes of an Unhealthy Environment
15
3
Environmental and Non-environmental Influences on Child Health
18
7
Main Constraints on Child Health and Development in Poorer Nations
25
2
Environmental Problems, Political Solutions?
27
3
References
30
3
The Links between Environment and Health
33
40
Introduction
33
1
Biological Pathogens
34
9
Chemical Pollutants
43
6
The Availability, Cost and Quality of Natural Resources
49
5
Physical Hazards
54
2
Aspects of the Built Environment with Negative Psychosocial Consequences
56
2
Natural Resource Degradation
58
1
National/Global Environmental Degradation
58
1
Estimating the Contribution of Environmental Factors to the Global Disease Burden
59
8
References
67
6
The Vulnerability of the Infant and Child to Environmental Hazards
73
34
Introduction
73
2
The Child in the Womb
75
5
Infancy and Early Childhood
80
9
The Older Child
89
2
The Child at Work
91
3
Children in Especially Difficult Circumstances
94
2
Parents at Particular Risk from Environmental Hazards
96
4
References
100
7
Children and Renewable Resources
107
44
Introduction
107
1
Access to Renewable Resources and Poverty
108
1
Soil
109
14
Wildfoods
123
1
Implications for Children
124
3
Forest Resources
127
8
Access to Renewable Resources in Urban Areas
135
11
References
146
5
Sustaining Environment and Development
151
23
Bringing Development into Sustainable Development
151
2
The Different Components of Sustainable Development
153
2
What is to be Sustained?
155
3
What is Currently Unsustainable?
158
3
Non-renewable Resource Use
161
2
Non-renewable Sinks
163
1
Environmental Impact of Climate Change
164
5
Poverty and the Loss of Environmental Capital
169
1
Linking Global and Local Sustainability
169
2
References
171
3
Primary Environmental Care
174
68
Introduction
174
1
The Concept
175
2
The Rationale
177
4
Preconditions for Primary Environmental Care
181
21
The Nature of Participation; from Passive Participation and Manipulation to Self-mobilization
202
2
Future Needs - Scaling Up
204
15
Acting on the Wider Constraints
219
16
Concluding Comments
235
1
References
236
6
Children as a Bridge to Sustainable Development
242
17
Introduction
242
4
Global Education for All, with a Purpose
246
3
A Grounded Approach to Environmental Education
249
2
Household Environmental Management
251
1
Broadening Primary Health Care Projects into Primary Environmental Care
252
2
Schools as Centres for Primary Environmental Care
254
2
Reaching the Poorest Children
256
1
From Local to Global Understanding
256
2
References
258
1
Bibliography
259
16
Index
275