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Watching children play in the outdoors is inspiring: climbing trees; discovering insects, animals and birds; running and shouting; playing games; letting their imaginations run wild; and story-telling. We can relate to this as adults because we were all children once. However, children s ability to experience the outdoor environment is under threat. Fear and risk, lack of investment, overcrowding and poverty are all restricting their opportunities to spend time outside. Children are a powerful symbol of the future. They provide us with a compelling reason to improve the urban environment. This…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Watching children play in the outdoors
is inspiring: climbing trees; discovering insects,
animals and birds; running and shouting; playing
games; letting their imaginations run wild; and
story-telling. We can relate to this as adults
because we were all children once. However,
children s ability to experience the outdoor
environment is under threat. Fear and risk, lack of
investment, overcrowding and poverty are all
restricting their opportunities to spend time
outside.
Children are a powerful symbol of the future. They
provide us with a compelling reason to improve the
urban environment. This symbolism has not been lost
on policy-makers. The most widely accepted
definition of sustainable development is the one
used in the 1987 Brundtland report : Development
that meets the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations to
satisfy their own needs . Yet, despite the frequency
with which they feature in environmental discourse,
children have played only a passive role in the
development and implementation of urban and
environmental policies.
Autorenporträt
Dr. Eyyad Al-Khalaileh holds a PhD degree in Community and
Environmental Design from North Carolina State University
(NCSU). He also holds MCRP (1991) in City and Regional
Planning, M. ARCH (1991) degrees from Iowa State University and
a Bachelor of Architecture from Iowa State University.