Children and Climate Change

Cover\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nChildren and Climate Change\n	Contents\n	1 Introduction and Overview\n		1.1 The Climate Crisis\n			Overview of Subsequent Sections\n	2 Impacts of Exposure to Climate-Related Events on Children’s Health, Development, and Well-Being\n		2.1 Individual Impacts\n		2.2 Interpersonal Impacts\n		2.3 Community and Societal Impacts\n		2.4 Concluding Section Comments\n	3 Children’s Knowledge and Feelings about Climate Change\n		3.1 How Children in the Global South Think and Feel about Climate Change\n		3.2 How Children in the Global North Think and Feel about Climate Change\n		3.3 Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Emotional Reactions to the Climate Crisis\n		3.4 Concluding Section Comments\n	4 Coping with Climate Change\n		4.1 Children’s Use of Emotion-, Problem- and Meaning-Focused Coping Strategies for Dealing with Climate Change\n		4.2 Regulating Emotions through Social Support, Talking about\rFeelings, and Time in Nature\n		4.3 Cultivating Hope as a Coping Strategy\n		4.4 Child Sense of Agency and Collective Action as a Form of Coping with Climate Change\n		4.5 Collective Action in the Form of Activism: School Climate Strikes, Youth Mobilisation, and Youth-Led Litigation\n		4.6 Concluding Section Comments\n	5 Parenting in the Age of Climate Crisis\n		5.1 Helping Children Cope with Direct Impacts of Climate Change\n		5.2 Helping Children Cope with the Indirect Impacts of Climate Change\n			5.2.1 Talking with Very Young Children about Climate Change\n			5.2.2 Talking with School-Aged Children about Climate Change\n		5.3 Supporting Children’s Emotions and Cultivating Hope\n		5.4 Parenting to Promote Pro-Environmental Values\n		5.5 Time in Nature\n		5.6 Parents in Action – Mitigating and Modelling\n		5.7 Preparing Parents for the Challenge of Parenting in the Age of Climate Change\n		5.8 Concluding Section Comments\n	6 Climate Change Education\n		6.1 Integrating Climate Change Education: A Global Challenge\n		6.2 Climate Change Education for Children\n		6.3 Climate Change Education for Children in Primary Schools\n		6.4 Informal Climate Change Education\n		6.5 Bridging Informal and Formal Approaches to Serve Children and Communities\n		6.6 Concluding Section Comments\n	7 Preparing Children for the World They Will Inherit as Adults\n		7.1 Concluding Section Comments\n	8 Conclusions, Future Directions, and a Call to Action\n		8.1 Review Implications\n		8.2 Future Directions and a Call to Action\nReferences