Overview
- Calls for recognition of the ecological environments present in our ever expanding cities
- Illustrates the complexity of the lives of children living in urban environments through a series of country-based case studies
- Theoretically framed by posthumanist and new materialist literature
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development (PSCD)
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Keywords
- Development Studies
- Sustainability
- child friendly cities
- Anthropocene
- La Paz
- Fukushima
- Sustainable
- posthumanist perspective
- materialist perspective
- UNICEF
- City
- nature
- childhood
- urbanisation
- ecological community
- ethnography
- Bolivia
- Kazakhstan
- childhood studies
- urban geography and urbanism
- Environmental Geography
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Book Title: Children in the Anthropocene
Book Subtitle: Rethinking Sustainability and Child Friendliness in Cities
Authors: Karen Malone
Series Title: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-43091-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-43090-8Published: 20 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-68278-2Published: 12 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-43091-5Published: 05 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-5724
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5732
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 280
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 54 illustrations in colour
Topics: Development Studies, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Sustainable Development, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Environmental Geography