Finally, we think that Henry David Thoreau, who was quoted in the beginning of
this chapter, would have agreed with us that true education has much to gain from
supporting meandering brooks, in a playful manner, together with children.
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this chapter, would have agreed with us that true education has much to gain from
supporting meandering brooks, in a playful manner, together with children.
References
Beery TH, Lekies KS (2018) Childhood collecting in nature: quality experience in important places.
Child Geogr 17(1):118–131
Beery TH, Wolf-Watz D (2014) Nature to place: rethinking the environmental connectedness
perspective. J Environ Psychol 40:198–205
Blicharska M, Rönnbäck P (2018) What factors enable or hinder engagement of civil society in
ecosystem management? The case of ‘pike factories’ and wetland restoration in Sweden. J
Environ Plan Manag 61(5–6):950–969
Buijs A, Fischer A, Muhar A (2018) From urban gardening to planetary stewardship: human–nature
relationships and their implications for environmentalmanagement. J Environ Plan Manag 61
(5–6):747–755
Carpenter SR, Cole JJ, Hodgson JR, Kitchell JF, Pace ML, Bade D, Cottingham KL, Essington TE,
Houser JN, Schindler DE (2001) Trophic cascades, nutrients, and lake productivity: whole-lake
experiments. Ecol Monogr 71(2):163–186
Chan MAK, Balvanera P, Benessaiah K, Chapman M, Díaz S, Gomez-Baggethun E, Gould R,
Hannahs N, Jax K, Klain S, Luck WG, Martín-Lopez B, Muraca B, Norton B, Ott K, Pascual U,
Satterfield T, Tadaki M, Taggart J, Turner N (2016) Opinion: why protect nature? Rethinking
values and the environment. PNAS 113(6):1462–1465
Choi DY (2007) Restoration ecology to the future: a call for new paradigm. Restor Ecol 15
(2):351–353
Cooke B, West S, Boonstra JW (2016) Dwelling in the biosphere: exploring an embodied human e
environment connection in resilience thinking. Sustain Sci 11(5):831–843
Cramer JR (2008) Reviving the connection between children and nature through service-learning
restoration partnerships. Native Plants 9(3):278–286
Cruz RE, Segura RB (2010) Developing the bioliteracy of school children for 24 years: a
fundamental tool for ecological restoration and conservation in perpetuity of the Área de
Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Ecol Restor 28(2):193–198
Engstedt O (2011) Anadromous pike in the Baltic Sea. Doctoral dissertation. Linnaeus University
Press
Frank KT, Petrie B, Choi JS, Leggett WC (2005) Trophic cascades in a formerly cod-dominated
ecosystem. Science 308(5728):1621–1623
Giusti M, Svane U, Raymond CM, Beery TH (2018) A framework to assess where and how
children connect to nature. Front Psychol
Gustafsson PE, Szczepanski A, Nelson N, Gustafsson PA (2011) Effects of an outdoor education
intervention on the mental health of schoolchildren. J Adv Educ Outdoor Learn 12(1):63–79
HELCOM (2018) Status of coastal fish communities in the Baltic Sea during 2011-2016 – the third
thematic assessment. Baltic Sea Environment Proceedings N
161
Jepson P (2019) Recoverable earth: a twenty-first century environmental narrative. Ambio
48:123–130
Kardell L (2004) Svenskarna och skogen: från baggböleri till naturvård. Del 2. Jönköping:
Skogsstyrelsen (Swedish Forest Agency)
Knackmuhs E, Farmer J, Reynolds LH (2017) Student outcomes of eco-restoration service-learning
experiences in urban woodlands. J Exp Educ 40(1):24–38
Martin DM (2017) Ecological restoration should be redefined for the twenty-first century. Restor
Ecol 25(5):668–673
From Onlookers to Ecosystem-Assistants: Exploring the Potentials of Ecological. . .
229