Transport and Children s Wellbeing

• Author : Owen Waygood,Margareta Friman,Lars Olsson,Raktim Mitra
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 29 October 2019

Transportation and Children’s Well-Being applies an ecological approach, examining the social, psychological and physical impacts transport has on children at the individual and community level. Drawing on the latest multidisciplinary research in transport, behavior, policy, the built environment and sustainability, the book explains the pathways and mechanisms by which transport affects the different domains of children’s travel. Further, the book identifies the influences of transportation with respect to several domains of well-being, highlighting the influences of residential location

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 11 September 2021

Advances in Transport Policy and Planning assesses both successful and unsuccessful practices and policies from around the world on the topic. Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors Presents the latest release in the Advances in Transport Policy and Planning series

• Author : Christina R. Ergler,Robin Kearns,Karen Witten
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 06 July 2017

How children experience, negotiate and connect with or resist their surroundings impacts on their health and wellbeing. In cities, various aspects of the physical and social environment can affect children’s wellbeing. This edited collection brings together different accounts and experiences of children’s health and wellbeing in urban environments from majority and minority world perspectives. Privileging children’s expertise, this timely volume explicitly explores the relationships between health, wellbeing and place. To demonstrate the importance of a place-based understanding

• Author : Margareta Friman,Dick Ettema,Lars E. Olsson
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 11 April 2018

This volume analyses the relevance of daily travel in the quality of life of individuals. It provides a broad understanding of the links between life satisfaction, well-being and travel, the importance of commuting, and different evaluations and measures to assess the experience of commuting and quality of life. Chapters in this book relate travel and quality of life to the built environment, accessibility and exclusion, travel mode choice, travel satisfaction and emotions. It brings together distinguished researchers from a variety

• Author : Hilde G. Nielsen
• Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
• Release : 20 January 2021

Outdoor recreation refers to recreation/activity executed outdoors, most commonly in natural settings. At least in many high-income countries, outdoor recreation is by many considered as an attractive activity during spare time or holidays. People actively seek out activities such as walking in the mountains, climbing, hunting, horseback riding, skiing, etc., which are very often difficult to accommodate in ordinary working days. Some people find outdoor recreation attractive to the extent that they take several months or a year off

• Author : Philip J. Landrigan,Ruth A. Etzel
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 15 November 2013

Over the past four decades, the prevalence of autism, asthma, ADHD, obesity, diabetes, and birth defects have grown substantially among children around the world. Not coincidentally, more than 80,000 new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during this same period. Today the World Health Organization attributes 36% of all childhood deaths to environmental causes. Children's environmental health is a new and expanding discipline that studies the profound impact of chemical and environmental hazards on child health. Amid mounting

• Author : Mark Garrett
• Publisher : SAGE Publications
• Release : 13 August 2014

Viewing transportation through the lens of current social, economic, and policy aspects, this four-volume reference work explores the topic of transportation across multiple disciplines within the social sciences and related areas, including geography, public policy, business, and economics. The book’s articles, all written by experts in the field, seek to answer such questions as: What has been the legacy, not just economically but politically and socially as well, of President Eisenhower’s modern interstate highway system in America? With

• Author : Jago Dodson,Neil Sipe,Anitra Nelson
• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• Release : 04 October 2016

The past decade has been one of the most volatile periods in global petroleum markets in living memory, and future oil supply security and price levels remain highly uncertain. This poses many questions for the professional activities of planners and urbanists because contemporary cities are highly dependent on petroleum as a transport fuel. How will oil dependent cities respond, and adapt to, the changing pattern of petroleum supplies? What key strategies should planners and policy makers implement in petroleum vulnerable

• Author : Claudio Baraldi,Lucia Rabello De Castro
• Publisher : SAGE
• Release : 10 February 2020

The book gathers a wide spectrum of contributors from Europe, the U.S., South Asia, South Africa and Latin America, who, attuned with present dilemmas in the area of childhood studies, discuss some key theoretical and empirical aspects of child scholarship, such as identity, child wellbeing, child mobility and migration, intergenerational relationships and child abuse.

• Author : Monica K. Miller,Jared Chamberlain,Twila Wingrove
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 01 February 2014

Unique in its angle and in the breadth of social issues it covers, this book brings together new research and analyses to address how legal actions affect children's wellbeing.

• Author : Helen Little,Sue Elliott,Shirley Wyver
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 25 July 2020

Educators have a key pedagogical role in promoting early years outdoor play in natural environments. Active outdoor play involving risk-taking has been linked to positive effects on social health and behaviour, and encourages physical activity and motor skill development. At the same time, it has been recognised that opportunities for children to experience outdoor learning have been reduced in recent decades due to the impacts of technology, urbanisation and social change. This book brings together renowned authors, with research and

• Author : European Conference of Ministers of Transport. Documentation Centre
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 23 March 1998

• Author : Centre for Bhutan Studies
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 23 March 2023

• Author : World Health Organization
• Publisher : World Health Organization
• Release : 23 March 2023

"This resource book discusses the economic arguments that could (and could not) be put forth to support the case for investing in the social determinants of health on average and in the reduction in socially determined health inequalities. It provides an overview and introduction into how economists would approach the assessment of the economic motivation to invest in the social determinants of health and socially determined health inequities, including what the major challenges are in this assessment. It illustrates the

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 23 March 1984