Identity-building in the woods

Ecos

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 33-41

  Carter, Claudia ^a   O'Brien, Liz ^a  

^a Environmental and Human Sciences Division

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Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; VOLUNTARY APPROACH; WOODLAND;

EID: 50649095437     PISSN: 01439073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. United Nations Volunteers (2003) Volunteers and the millennium development goals. UN Volunteers, Civicus, IAVE, Germany, p.21.
2. 'Nature Providers' is used here as a collective term to refer to organisations who own or are charged with managing public or private woodlands, nature reserves and green space, such as the Forestry Commission, Natural England, Wildlife Trusts, Woodland Trust, National Trust and many others.
3. Carter, C. (2007) Offenders and Nature: Helping People - Helping Nature. Forest Research, Farnham.
4. O'Brien, E., Townsend, M. and Ebden, M. (In press 2008) 'I'd like to think when I'm gone I will have left this a better place': Environmental volunteering: motivations, benefits and barriers. Report to the Scottish Forestry Trust and Forestry Commission, Edinburgh.
5. We did not have the opportunity to gain parental permission for this to take place.
6. Project Scotland is a volunteer placement programme for 16-25 year olds. The young people receive a subsistence allowance for undertaking a minimum of 30 hours per week of activity for between three and twelve months.
7. E.g, O'Brien, E. (2005) Trees and Woodlands: Nature's Health Service, Farnham; Forest Research; Pretty, J., J. Peacock, M. Sellens and M. Griffin (2005) 'The mental and physical health outcomes of green exercise', International Journal of Environmental Health Research 15(5): 319-337.
8. E.g. Kuo, F.E. and W.C. Sullivan (2001) 'Environment and crime in the inner city: does vegetation reduce crime?' Environment and Behavior 33(3): 343-367.
9. E.g. O'Brien, E. (2004) A Sort of Magical Place: People's experiences of woodlands in northwest and southeast England, Farnham: Forest Research.