Children's Health and Wellbeing in Urban Environments

Preface. Introduction. Part 1: Neighbourhood Environments 1. The Miasma of Occupation: The Effects of Seen and Unseen Violence on Palestinian Children and Families 2. Children's Active Transport and Independent Mobility in the Urban Environment 3. How Does the Neighbourhood Built Environment Influence Child Development? 4. Changing Geographies of Children's Air Pollution Exposure 5. Is Society Now Being Social? 6. Cities That Encourage Happiness Part 2: Home and Away 7. Mobilising Children: The Role of Mobile Communications in Child Mobility 8. The Role of the Geography of Educational Opportunity in the Wellbeing of African American Children 9. Child Medical Travel in Argentina: Narratives of Family Separation and Moving Away from Home 10. Cycles of Violence, Girlhood and Motherhood: Family Formation in Guayaquil's Shantytowns Part 3: Gardens, Greens and Nature 11. Urban Green Spaces and Childhood Obesity in (Sub)tropical Queensland, Australia 12. Is 'Natural' Education Healthy Education? A Comparative Analysis of Forest-based Education and Green Care Spaces in Germany and the UK 13. Being Connected? Well-being Affordances for Suburban and Central City Children Part 4: Viewing Wellbeing 14. Mobilities of Wellbeing in Children's Health Promotion: Confronting Urban Settings in Geographically Informed Theory and Practice 15. Identity, Place and the (Cultural) Wellbeing of Indigenous Children 16. Ecological Wellbeing, Childhood and Environmental Change. Concluding Remarks: The Atmospheric Attunements of Children and Young People