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Cultivating social capital in diverse, low-income neighborhoods: The value of parks for parents with young children
High-quality parks and safe, walkable, built environments can enhance neighborhood social capital in low-income communities of color
Demographic, social, and environmental factors predicting Danish children’s greenspace use
Access to multiple types of greenspace is a stronger predictor of greenspace use by children than parental support
Park and neighbourhood environmental characteristics associated with park-based physical activity among children in a high-density city
Neighborhood socioeconomic status moderates the way park and neighborhood environments influence children’s park-based physical activity in a high-density city
Green schoolyard renovations in low‐income urban neighborhoods: Benefits to students, schools, and the surrounding community
Green schoolyards may be “particularly powerful drivers of health equity by promoting well‐being at the level of the individual, school, and community.”
Assessing the impact of complimentary wildflower seed packets as an outreach tool for promoting pollinator conservation at a zoo
Wildflower seed packets lead to pollinator-friendly behaviors, though more follow-up is needed
Attitude-intention consistency in the context of energy and water conservation: Examining the moderating role of vested interest
Developing effective conservation messages for students and community members
Building teachers’ self-efficacy in teaching about climate change through educative curriculum and professional development
Professional development program builds confidence in teaching climate change
Citizen science engagement: Lessons learned from the ClimateWatch “Scientist for a Day” program
Citizen science programs can improve environmental knowledge and behaviors
Clustering energy and water conservation behaviors as choices: examining the moderating roles of message elaboration and involvement
Optional conservation recommendations are more effective than mandates
Evaluating impacts of a wetland field trip: a case study with urban middle school students
Short field trips can improve environmental knowledge in urban middle schoolers
Examining the impact of climate change film as an educational tool
Climate change film positively impacts student responses to climate change
Expanding high school youth’s perceptions of environmental careers and resilience development through conservation education
Hands-on experience broadens high school students’ understanding of interdisciplinary environmental careers and increases personal resilience
Impacts of targeted education programs on the adoption of residential best management practices (BMP) to combat non-point source pollution
Targeted best management programs may help residents adopt behaviors
Measuring and developing ecological literacy to conserve the critically endangered Mariana Crow
New school-based environmental education curriculum increased environmental knowledge and attitudes
Place attachment and learning outcomes among tourists who volunteer for a U.S. National Park science volunteer program
A citizen science program in Denali may have positive place attachment and learning outcomes for tourists
Potential of ‘future workshop’ method for educating adolescents about climate change mitigation and adaptation: a case from Freistadt, Upper Austria
Future workshops can complement climate change education
Social media split testing and message framing: Emerging capacities to encourage residential water conservation
Social media testing can help educators hone effective messages for conservation
Supporting K-12 teachers in the context of whole-school sustainability: four case studies
Collaboration, professional development opportunities, and slow lesson integration may be key for sustainable development education
Sustainable Sea: A board game for engaging students in sustainable fisheries management
Educational games can successfully supplement traditional teaching methods on sustainability topics
Unpacking the power of place-based education in climate change communication
A climate change toolkit can make place-based education more effective
Visitor perceptions of the outcomes of personal interpretation in Alberta’s Provincial Parks
Overlapping factors in personal interpretation influence visitors’ outcomes
Visitors’ attitudes and behavioral intentions toward Leave No Trace on a national forest
Park visitors’ attitudes towards effectiveness and ease of Leave No Trace affect compliance
Effects of trees, gardens, and nature trails on heat index and child health: Design and methods of the Green Schoolyards Project
School parks can serve as a tool for urban heat island adaptation and health promotion.
Parental perspectives on green schoolyards: Advantages outweigh disadvantages, but willingness to help is limited
Parents consider the advantages of green schoolyards to outweigh the disadvantages, but cite lack of time as a barrier to their more active involvement.
What difference does it make? Exploring the transformative potential of everyday climate crisis activism by children and youth
Youths’ everyday climate crisis activism can make important contributions to a more sustainable future
Children's agency and action in nature preschool: A tale of two programs
Young children, with support of early childhood educators, have the ability to be meaningfully involved in ecologically sustainable practices
Evaluating a green schoolyard transformation: A protocol utilizing the RE-AIM framework
Use of a field-tested evaluation protocol can augment the evidence base for the green schoolyard movement as a health-promotion strategy
Babies and toddlers outdoors: A narrative review of the literature on provision for under twos in ECEC settings
Dominant contemporary narratives in the literature tend to exclude infants and toddlers from the outdoors
Increased exposure to nature reduces elementary students’ anxiety
A nature-based guidance program was effective at reducing anxiety among third grade students
A simulated walk in nature: Testing predictions from the attention restoration theory
Research using simulated natural environments yield new insights into Attention Restoration Theory
A comparison of California and Texas secondary science teachers’ perceptions of climate change
State standards and political affiliation influence teaching about climate change in TX and CA
Attitudes towards animal welfare in Portuguese students from the 6th and the 9th year of schooling: implications for environmental education
Environmental education should consider non-human centered approaches to teaching for better understanding of animal welfare issues
Biology student teachers’ interest and self-efficacy in planning and conducting field trips after participation in a university course
Pre-service course positively influences educators’ interest and self-efficacy in leading field trips
Bureaucratic exercise? Education for sustainable development in Taiwan through the stories of policy implementers
Lessons learned from Taiwan’s nationwide education for sustainable development program
Children in nature: Exploring the relationship between childhood outdoor experience and environmental stewardship
Appreciative outdoor activities during childhood promote connection to nature and environmental-citizenship behaviors
Decoding gender in nature-based education: perceptions of environmental educators
Environmental educators can create safe spaces for gender exploration and identity development
Didactical dilemmas when planning teaching for sustainable development in preschool
Teaching choices in early childhood facilitate sustainable learning in students
Educating for resilience: parent and teacher perceptions of children’s emotional needs in response to climate change
Assessing climate anxiety in caretakers and children and ways to overcome it
Extinction, education and the curious practice of visiting thrombolites
Extinction Studies encourages curiosity and story-making in children
Framing action in a youth climate change filmmaking program: hope, agency, and action across scales
Climate-themed student films emphasize individual behavior change instead of structural changes
It’s about time: perceived barriers to in-service teacher climate change professional development
Lack of time is teachers’ largest obstacle to participating in climate change professional development
Navigating inclusion and legitimacy in campus-community environmental partnerships to advance urban social-ecological resilience
Inclusion and legitimacy are co-dependent constructs for successful campus-community partnerships for environmental education
Participatory research on using virtual reality to teach ocean acidification: a study in the marine education community
Virtual reality could help educators teach climate change issues like ocean acidification
Predicting engineering students’ desire to address climate change in their careers: an exploratory study using responses from a U.S. National survey
Factors that contribute to engineering students choosing a career in climate change
Shaping pro-environmental attitudes among public service trainees: an experimental study
Pre-service training improves Taiwanese government officials’ environmental attitudes
The changing and complex entanglements of research and policy making in education: issues for environmental and sustainability education
A theoretical analysis of the role of research in environmental education policy
The effect of information source on higher education students’ sustainability knowledge
Classroom environmental lessons are strongest influences on sustainability knowledge in college students
The outcomes of nature-based learning for primary school aged children: A systematic review of quantitative research
A systematic review of the literature highlights the potential positive impact of nature-based learning for primary school aged children
Understanding the research-policy relationship in ESE: insights from the critical policy and evidence use literatures
Three areas of improvement for relating environmental education research and policy
Greenness surrounding schools and adisposity in children and adolescents: Findings from a national population-based study in China
Higher school-based greenness levels in China are associated with healthier weight in children and adolescents