Louise Chawla

Growing Up in Cities - General

• Book and Book Chapters
  1. Growing Up in an Urbanizing World. Editor and co-author Paris / London: UNESCO Publishing / Earthscan, in press.
  2. "Neighbourhood Quality in Children's Eyes," co-authored with Karen Malone. In Children in the City, edited by Margaret O'Brien & Pia Christensen. London: Falmer Press, forthcoming.
  3. "Children show the way: Participatory programs for children of South African streets and squatter camps," co-authored with Jill Swart Kruger. In Youth in Cities, edited by William Julius Wilson and Marta Tienda New York: Cambridge University Press, in press.
  4. "Children for cities and cities for children," co-authored with Ilaria Salvadori. In Understanding Ecosystems, edited by Alan Berkowitz, Karen Hollweg and Charles Nilon. New York: Springer-Verlag, in press.
• Articles
  1. "Special place?–What is that? Significant places in the lives of children in a Johannesburg squatter camp," Michigan Quarterly Review, 2000, 39(2): 378-398.
  2. "Putting young-old ideas into action: The relevance of Growing Up in Cities to Local Agenda 21," Local Environments, in press for fall 2000.
  3. "Growing Up in Cities: A project to involve young people in evaluating and improving their urban environments," Zero to 25, October 1998 (Dutch version). Reprinted in abridged form in Environment and Urbanization, 1998, 9 (2): 247-251.
  4. "Children as special citizens," co-authored with Anne Trine Kjorholt. PLA Notes (Participatory Learning & Action), 1996, 25: 43-46.
  5. "Children in South Africa can make a difference: An assessment of Growing Up in Cities in Johannesburg," paper co-authored with R. Dev Griesel and Jill Swart Kruger, submitted for publication in a special issue of Childhood in honor of Sharon Stephens.

Other Publications Related to Children and the Environment

• Book and Book Chapters
  1. In the First Country of Places: Nature, Poetry and Childhood Memory. New York: State University of New York Press, 1994.
  2. "Spots of time: Multiple ways of being in nature in childhood," in Children and Nature, edited by Peter Kahn, Jr. and Steven Kellert Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, forthcoming.
  3. "Children," co-authored with Christine Bevington. In Encyclopedia of Housing, edited by Willem van Vliet. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1997.
  4. "Revisioning childhood, nature, and the city." In Children and the City, edited by Kaj Noschis. Lausanne: Comportements, 1995: 101-108.
  5. "Childhood memory in adult interpretations of home." In The Meaning and Use of Housing, edited by E. Arias. London: Gower Publishing, 1993: 479-495.
  6. "Childhood place attachments." In Place Attachment, edited by Irwin Altman & Setha Low. New York: Plenum Press, 1992: 63-86.
  7. "Homes for children in a changing society." In Advances in Environment, Behavior, and Design, Vol. 3, edited by Gary T. Moore & Erwin Zube. New York: Plenum Press, 1991: 187-228.
• Articles and Reviews
  1. "Significant life experiences revisited once again," commentary invited by Environmental Education Review, forthcoming.
  2. Review of E. Werna, A. Dzikus, L. Ochola and M. Kumarasuriyar, Implementing the Habitat Agenda: Towards Child-Centred Human Settlement Development in Developing Countries, Urban Studies 2000, 37(9).
  3. "Life paths into effective environmental action," Journal of Environmental Education, 1999, 31 (1): 15-26.
  4. "Research methods to investigate significant life experiences: Review and recommendations," Environmental Education Research, 1998, 4 (4): 383-397.
  5. "Significant life experiences revisited," Journal of Environmental Education, 1998, 29 (3): 11-21. Reprinted in abridged form in Environmental Education Research 1998, 4 (4): 369-382.
  6. Review of Cristina Blanc and contributors, Urban Children in Distress, World Psychology, 1996.
  7. "Reaching home: Reflections on environmental autobiography," EAP Newsletter Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology, 1995, 6 (2): 12-15.
  8. "Childhood sources of adult environmentalism," Barn (Children), 1995, No. 4: 38-48.
  9. "The World Summit for Social Development: Issues for children," Barn (Children), 1995, No. 2: 65-79.
  10. "Childhood's changing terrain: Incorporating childhood past and present into community evaluation," Childhood, 1994, 4: 221-233.
  11. "All over town: Growing up in rural Kentucky, 1900 to now," Small Town, 1994, 25 (2): 4-15.
  12. "Preparing children to care for the earth," Barn (Children), 1994, No. 3: 62-81.
  13. "Earth origin," Holistic Education Review, 1993, 6 (3): 23-30.
  14. Review of James Garbarino, Towards a Sustainable Society and Richard Louv, Childhood's Future, Childhood, 1993, 1 (3): 178-182.
  15. "Ecstatic places," Children's Environments Quarterly, 1990, 7 (4): 18-23.
  16. "Children's concern for the natural environment," Children's Environments Quarterly, 1988, 5 (3): 13 -20.
  17. "Biography of an antibiograph," Sagetrieb, 1988, 7 (3): 83-94.
  18. "The ecology of environmental memory," Children's Environments Quarterly, 1986, 3 (4): 34-42.
  19. "The place of poetry," Children's Environments Quarterly, Fall 1985.
  20. "Knowing your place." In S. Klein, R. Wener, & S. Lehman (Eds.), Environmental Change/Social Change. Washington, DC: EDRA, 1985: 155-161.
  21. "The development of children's concern for the environment," co-authored with Roger Hart. Zeitschrift fur Umweltpolitik, International Institute for Environment & Society, Berlin, 1982. Reprinted in abridged form as "The Roots of Environmental Concern," Paths to Co-existence, ed. D. Lawrence & A. Hacker, Washington, DC: EDRA, 1988: 15-18; and in The NAMTA Journal, 1995, 20 (1): 148-157.
  22. "Making the first chance count," Children's House, Winter 1976.