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. Ed(S): Garbarino, James; Sigman, Garry - Child's Right to a Healthy Environment - 9781441967893 - V9781441967893
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Child's Right to a Healthy Environment

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Description for Child's Right to a Healthy Environment Hardback. This powerfully expressed analysis examines the impediments to the goals of justice, safety, dignity, well-being and meaning in children's lives. These obstacles include factors as varied as disengaged parents and corrosive moral lessons from the media. Editor(s): Garbarino, James; Sigman, Garry. Series: The Loyola University Symposium on the Human Rights of Children. Num Pages: 235 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JKSN; JNC; MB; MJW; MMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 554.

It’s a startling reality that more American children are victims—and perpetrators—of violence than those of any other developed country. Yet unlike the other nations, the United States has yet to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Compelling, readable, and interdisciplinary, A Child’s Right to a Healthy Environment provides an abundance of skilled observation, important findings, and keen insights to place children’s well-being in the vanguard of human rights concerns, both in the United States and globally.

Within this volume, authors examine the impediments to the crucial goals of justice, safety, dignity, well-being, and meaning in children’s ... Read more

  • War and natural disasters.
  • Environmental toxins (e.g., malaria and lead poisoning).
  • The child obesity epidemic.
  • Gun violence.
  • Child slavery and trafficking.
  • Toxic elements in contemporary culture.

A Child’s Right to a Healthy Environment is a powerful call to action for researchers and professionals in developmental, clinical child, school, and educational psychology as well as psychiatry, pediatrics, social work, general and special education, sociology, and other fields tasked with improving children’s lives.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
Series
The Loyola University Symposium on the Human Rights of Children
Number of Pages
235
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781441967893
SKU
V9781441967893
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About . Ed(S): Garbarino, James; Sigman, Garry
James Garbarino is the founding Director of the Center for the Human Rights of Children at Loyola University Chicago; the current Maude C. Clarke Chair in Humanistic Psychology. Before arriving at Loyola, he was Cornell University's Elizabeth Lee Vincent Professor of Human Development and co-director of the Family Life Development Center. He received his bachelor's degree from St. Lawrence University ... Read more

Reviews for Child's Right to a Healthy Environment
From the reviews: “In 2008, Loyola University’s Center for the Rights of Children hosted a symposium on the rights of children with a focus on environmental health. … The book brings together advocacy and academic content from the symposium topics contributed by experts in the field. … This collection of symposium presentations … to be more applicable to those ... Read more

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