Use the navigation for links to research concerning the benefits of nature to healthy childhood development, as well as a sampling of articles, reports and fact sheets related to education, health and government-backed initiatives.

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GENERAL RESEARCH ON CHILDREN AND NATURE
Full listing of four volumes from the Children & Nature Network

“Nature-centered play experiences for children are those that instill wonder and engender curiosity,; take place in outdoor settings ranging from backyards to neighborhoods to city parks to wilderness; and occur in the form of guided activities as well as unstructured nature play in children’s everyday lives.”