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Policy Press Shorts Research |
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Policy Press shorts. Research.
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Intro; ENVIRONMENT IN THE LIVES OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES; Contents; List of figures and tables; Figures; Table; Notes on the authors; Acknowledgements; 1. Everyday engagement with climate change; Introduction; Why focus on individuals in climate change policy?; Changes in understandings of climate change practices; Futurity, families and children; A common world approach; Environmental affordances; Overview of the book; 2. Ways of understanding family practices across contexts; A common world approach to the study of family lives; Contrasting contexts: learning from difference? |
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The relationality and materiality of everyday family livesA narrative approach; The methodological process; Learning from the Young Lives study; New data collection; Ethics considerations; In summary; 3. Environmental affordances and the work of everyday family lives; Introduction; Environmental issues in everyday lives; Relations of care and environmental affordances: "life is work"; Conclusion; 4. Environmental concerns, identities and practices; Introduction; Family environmental affordances: beliefs in the irrelevance of human responses to climate change. |
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Home is where environmental affordances are: relations of care supersede concerns with climate changeFamilies protected from engaging in environmental practices by socioeconomic resources; The importance of the state to environmental affordances; Identities as committed environmentalists: distanced environmental concern?; Conclusion; 5. Children are the future? Power, generation and environmental practices; Introduction; Imagined futures: children as parents' objects of environmental concern; Making the most of environmental affordances: constraints on children's situated agency. |
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Generational positioning and environmental concernConclusions; 6. Negotiating environments in children's and families' everyday lives; Every little helps? Beyond 'ABC' (Attitudes-Behaviour-Cognition); "It's like I was a witch": the unhelpfulness of moral binaries; Futurity, families and children; Implications for policy and practice; References; Index. |
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Based on involved creative, qualitative work with families in India and the UK who live in different contexts, this book illuminates how environmental practices are negotiated within families, and how they relate to values, identities, and society. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 24, 2023). |
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Children and the environment -- Great Britain.
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Children and the environment -- India.
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Families -- Great Britain.
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Families -- India.
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Children and the environment.
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Familles.
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Enfants et environnement.
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Enfants et environnement -- Grande-Bretagne.
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Enfants et environnement -- Inde.
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Familles -- Grande-Bretagne.
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Familles -- Inde.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General.
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Children and the environment
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Families
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Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP
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India https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJmdx47cDXrRhBXHtbvPwC
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| Added Author |
Boddy, Janet, 1969- author.
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Walker, Catherine, author.
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Vennam, Uma, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781447339199 |
| ISBN |
9781447339205 electronic book |
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1447339207 electronic book |
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9781447339212 electronic book |
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1447339215 electronic book |
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1447339231 electronic book |
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9781447339236 electronic book |
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9781447339199 hardcover |
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9781447339229 electronic book |
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1447339223 electronic book |
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1447339193 |
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AU@ 000066358398 |
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UKMGB 018410279 |
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AU@ 000069011282 |
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AU@ 000075795112 |
