Introduction vii
Peter H. Kahn, Jr. and Stephen R. Kellert
1 The Primate Relationship with Nature: Biophilia as a General Pattern 1
Peter Verbeek and Frans B. M. de Waal
2 The Ecological World of Children 29
Judith H. Heerwagen and Gordon H. Orians
3 The Development of Folkbiology: A Cognitive Science Perspective on Children’s Understanding of the Biological World 65
John D. Coley, Gregg E. A. Solomon, and Patrick Shafto
4 Children’s Affiliations with Nature: Structure, Development, and the Problem of Environmental Generational Amnesia 93
Peter H. Kahn, Jr.
5 Experiencing Nature: Affective, Cognitive, and Evaluative Development in Children 117
Stephen R. Kellert
6 Animals as Links toward Developing Caring Relationships with the Natural World 153
Olin Eugene Myers, Jr. and Carol D. Saunders
7 Animals in Therapeutic Education: Guides into the Liminal State 179
Aaron Katcher
8 Spots of Time: Manifold Ways of Being in Nature in Childhood 199
Louise Chawla
9 Adolescents and the Natural Environment: A Time Out? 227
Rachel Kaplan and Stephen Kaplan
10 Adolescents and Ecological Identity: Attending to Wild Nature 259
Cynthia Thomashow
11 Political Economy and the Ecology of Childhood 279
David W. Orr
12 Eden in a Vacant Lot: Special Places, Species, and Kids in the Neighborhood of Life 305
Robert Michael Pyle
List of Contributors 329
Name Index 331
Subject Index 341
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