Risk, Protection, Provision and Policy, 1st ed. 2017
Geographies of Children and Young People Series, Vol. 12

The volume provides an overview of recent research (within geography and allied disciplines) around the overarching concept of ?safe and accessible places of encounter?. It develops according to three interrelated themes.  The first part of the volume examines several of the many spaces children use and that are relevant to the geographies of children and young people including: the city centre and inner city high rise housing, urban versus suburban and rural spaces, local neighbourhoods, the ?home? (for particular groups of children and young people such as child domestic workers in Bangladesh), school playgrounds, services (such as domestic violence shelters), outdoor natural spaces, and ?life space? (where music and arts are presented in a non-political space in Bosnia-Herzegovina). The second part examines how notions of safety, protection and risk relate to providing children and young people with good life chances, and accessible spaces that enhance or reduce well-being. This middle section emphasises the debate about risk and the need to balance risk and safety/protection.

The final part focuses on policy that builds on the provision/identification of spaces, safety/protection and risk. The emphasis is on how policy at different levels (international-national-local-family) helps provide better spaces of encounter and enhances life chances for children and young people. This section also recognises the different levels of policy making associated with different parts of the world and different regional settings. The gap between policy intentions and outcomes is recognised (e.g Cambodia?s policies on orphanage tourism). The policy section includes contributions that relate to planning, education, migration, architecture, health, connection and citizenship, and sustainability. It provides insights into how professionals working in these fields can, through policy, enhance children?s and young people?s lived experiences and living environments.p>

Provision

Creating Child-Friendly Living Environments in Central Cities: Vertical Living Kids

Children and Young People in Domestic Violence Shelters

Postwar Life-Space and Music in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Childhood Nature Experiences Across Residential Settings: Rural, Suburban, and Urban

Female Child Domestic Workers’ Limited Agency: Working and Living in the Private Homes of Employers in Bangladesh

Exploring Schools’ Use of Natural Spaces

Participatory Schoolyard Design for Health and Well-Being: Policies that Support Play in Urban Green Spaces

Protection – Safety and Risk

“Vulnerable” Children in “Dangerous” Places: Learning Disabled Children in Outdoor Green Space

Children’s Everyday Lives in Inner-City Auckland

Perceptions of Risk and Safety in Public Spaces: Towards a Child Standpoint

Parental Perceptions of Risk and Children’s Physical Activity

Policy Issues and Obstacles for Undocumented Migrant Children

Policy

Orphanage Tourism: The Need for Protection and Policy

Mobile Homeless Youth, Health Disparities, and Access to Care: Using Mobile Phones and Geospatial Technologies to Document Geographies of Risk and Pathways to Care

Community Safety Maps: Child-Driven Crime Opportunity Profiling

Hazards of Safety: Transportation Externalities and the Rights of Children

Planning for Flexible and Innovative School Spaces: Safety and Risk

School Choice and Social Class: Urban Geographies and Educational Opportunities

Children’s CitizenshipCreating Child-Friendly Living Environments in Central Cities: Vertical Living Kids

Children and Young People in Domestic Violence Shelters

Postwar Life-Space and Music in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Childhood Nature Experiences Across Residential Settings: Rural, Suburban, and Urban

Exploring Schools’ Use of Natural Spaces

Participatory Schoolyard Design for Health and Well-Being: Policies that Support Play in Urban Green Spaces

Protection – Safety and Risk

Children’s Experiences in a Botanical Garden: Nature of Risk and the Risk of Nature

“Vulnerable” Children in “Dangerous” Places: Learning Disabled Children in Outdoor Green Space

Children’s Everyday Lives in Inner-City Auckland

Perceptions of Risk and Safety in Public Spaces: Towards a Child Standpoint

Parental Perceptions of Risk and Children’s Physical Activity

Policy Issues and Obstacles for Undocumented Migrant Children

Policy

Orphanage Tourism: The Need for Protection and Policy

Mobile Homeless Youth, Health Disparities, and Access to Care: Using Mobile Phones and Geospatial Technologies to Document Geographies of Risk and Pathways to Care

Child-Friendly and Sustainable Cities: Exploring Global Studies on Children’s Freedom, Mobility, and Risk

Community Safety Maps: Child-Driven Crime Opportunity Profiling

Hazards of Safety: Transportation Externalities and the Rights of Children

Planning for Flexible and Innovative School Spaces: Safety and Risk

School Choice and Social Class: Urban Geographies and Educational Opportunities

Children’s Citizenship

Claire Freeman is currently a Professor at the Department of Geography, University of Otago, New Zealand where she teaches undergraduate Geography students and in the Master of Planning Programme. Claire has previously worked At Massey University New Zealand, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, and the University of the North West in South Africa, and as a planner for the Urban Wildlife Trust in Birmingham, UK. She has been a visiting researcher and fellow at Queens University Belfast and the University of Queensland, Australia. As a planner she is deeply concerned about creating better environments for all, but especially for children and young people, and in 2015 visited, Singapore, UK, Australia and the Netherlands to explore new planning developments and biodiversity initiatives.

Her interests are in environmental planning including: sustainable communities, planning for children and young people and planning with nature. Interest in the environment has been a major research thrust with work on drought and community development in rural communities in South Africa, planning for urban nature and urban conservation and people’s relationships with nature in domestic gardens. She is currently working on a study about how relationships to nature in the home environment change as people age. 

Claire’s main area of research is planning, children and young people and the ways planning can enhance living environments so that they work better for children and young people. In 1999 with Paul Henderson and Jane Kettle she co-authored one of the first books on children and planning: “Planning with Children for Better Communities”. In 2011 Claire and Paul Tranter published their book Children and their Urban Environment: Changing Worlds (Earthscan) which provides a comprehensive account of how the urban environment impacts on children's lives. She is also co-author with Nancy Higgins of the book (2013) ‘Childhoods: Growing up in Aotearoa Ne

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