Parks, streets and "just empty space": The local environmental experiences of children and young people in a Scottish study

Local Environment

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 509-523

  Day, Rosie ^a,b   Wager, Fiona ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Environmental inequality; Qualitative; Scotland; Teenagers

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; HUMAN RIGHTS; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK; SOCIAL JUSTICE; YOUNG POPULATION;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77954276930     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: 14696711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2010.487524     Document Type: Article

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