Overview
- Examines the physical environment – disasters, climate change, and the built environment
- Explores environmental challenges as well as protective factors that promote resilience
- Describes government programs and policies that can help families respond and adapt to environmental challenges
Part of the book series: National Symposium on Family Issues (NSFI, volume 12)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Overview and Next Steps
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Bangladesh, trauma, environmental challenges, migration
- Built environment, children, adolescents, health, well-being
- Caregivers, siblings, peers, environmental challenges
- Climate change, health studies, families, children, youth
- Community built environments, family, interactions, processes
- Crowding, chaos, family functioning, health, and well-being
- Demographic outcomes, climate change, urban environments
- Disaster-induced death, destruction, families
- Environmental disasters, pollutants, impact, families
- Environmental migration, families, youth, well-being
- Equity, environmental disaster, toxins, families
- Health, mortality, survival longevity, environment, families
- Homes, parks, schools, play spaces, environmental design
- Indian Ocean, tsunami, 2004, survivors, PTSD
- Natural disaster, recovery, children, youth
- Neighborhood development, community health, environment
- REACH River Rouge Project, community built environments
- Social systems, family studies, migration, climate shock
- Social, ecological, protective factors, postdisaster recovery
- Socioeconomic conditions, neighborhood infrastructures
About this book
Featured areas of coverage include:
- Extreme natural events and families’ postdisaster recovery.
- Family adaptations to climate change.
- The builtenvironment and children’s health and well-being.
- Community-driven approaches to address environmental inequities.
- The urban environment of family caregiving.
Environmental Impacts on Families is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, policymakers, and other related professionals in developmental psychology, family studies, environmental health and policy, social work, public health, educational policy and politics, economics, migration studies, and all interrelated disciplines.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Susan M. McHale, Ph.D., is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Human Development and Emeritus Professor of Demography at Penn State. Her research focuses on children and adolescents’ family roles, relationships, and daily experiences and how these family dynamics are linked to youth development and adjustment. Dr. McHale’s research highlights family gender dynamics and the role of sociocultural practices and values in youth development and well-being.
Valarie King, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Human Development and Family Studies and an Associate of the Population Research Institute at Penn State. Her research focuses on intergenerational relationships across the life course and their implications for the health, well-being, and development of family members. Dr. King’s most recent work focuses on elucidating the factors that promote the development of strong ties between children and their stepfathers, and the ways in which stepfathers can promote children’s well-being.
Jennifer E. Glick, Ph.D., is Professor of Demography, Arnold S. and Bette G. Hoffman Professor in Sociology, and an Associate of the Population Research Institute at Penn State. Dr. Glick is a social demographer with expertise in migration, family processes and children's education and developmental trajectories. She has written extensively on the educational outcomes among children of immigrants in the United States and how migration alters family relationships and living arrangements.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Impacts on Families
Book Subtitle: Change, Challenge, and Adaptation
Editors: Selena E. Ortiz, Susan M. McHale, Valarie King, Jennifer E. Glick
Series Title: National Symposium on Family Issues
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22649-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22648-9Published: 29 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22651-9Published: 29 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-22649-6Published: 28 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2192-9157
Series E-ISSN: 2192-9165
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 203
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Developmental Psychology, Family, Group and Systematic Therapy, Environmental Health, Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Migration