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Theory of change -- Evaluation -- Environment, sustainability, and climate change -- Environmental behaviors -- Environmental action -- Knowledge and thinking -- Values, beliefs, and attitudes -- Nature of connectedness -- Sense of place -- Efficacy -- Identity -- Norms -- Social capital -- Positive youth development -- Health and wellbeing -- Conclusion : resilience : adaptation and transformation.

"This edited volume presents diverse case studies about the implications of civic ecology practices worldwide. It answers how civic ecology practices emerge, the role the practices play in the ability of communities and individuals to address social-ecological stresses, and given climate-associated disturbances, what strategies can be used to expand impacts of community driven practices to foster large-scale resilience and sustainability"--

Strange intruders are invading our part of the world, threatening our environment and our economy. These newcomers and their impact on our ecological balance are the focus of Invasion Ecology , a new book that teaches students to investigate the behaviors of nonnative and native species. Studying real-life invaders such as purple loosestrife and Phragmites, students will learn about the links between biology and ecology -- and explore how scientists are fighting these aggressors with biological controls

Urban context -- Advancing urbanization / David Maddox, Harini Nagendra, Thomas Elmqvist, Alex Russ -- Sustainable cities / Martha Monroe, Arjen Wals, Hiromi Kobori, Johanna Ekne -- Four Asian tigers / Geok Chin Ivy Tan, John Chi-Kin Lee, Tzuchau Chang, Chankook Lee -- Cities as opportunities / Daniel Fonseca de Andrade, Soul Shava, Sanskriti Menon -- Educational settings -- Nonformal educational settings / Joe Heimlich, Jennifer Adams, Marc Stern -- Community environmental education / Marianne Krasny, Mutizwa Mukute, Olivia Aguilar, Priscilla Masilela, Lausanne Olvitt -- School partnerships / Polly Knowlton Cockett, Janet Dyment, Mariona Espinet, Yu Huang -- Sustainable campuses / Scott Ashmann, Felix Pohl, David Barbier -- Theoretical underpinnings -- Critical environmental education / Robert B. Stevenson, Arjen E.J. Wals, Joe Heimlich, Ellen Field -- Environmental justice / Marcia McKenzie, Jada Renee Koushik, Randolph Haluza-DeLay, Belinda Chin, Jason Corwin -- Sense of place / Jennifer Adams, David Greenwood, Mitchell Thomashow, Alex Russ -- Climate change education / Marianne Krasny, Chew-Hung Chang, Marna Hauk, Bryce Dubois -- Community assets / Marianne Krasny, Simon Beames, Shorna Allred -- Trust and collaborative governance / Marc Stern, Alexander Hellquist -- Environmental governance / Marianne Krasny, Erika S. Svendsen, Cecil Konijnendijk van den Bosch, Johan Enqvist, Alex Russ -- Participants -- Early childhood / Victoria Derr, Louise Chawla, Illène Pevec -- Positive youth development / Tania Schusler, Jacqueline Davis-Manigaulte, Amy Cutter-Mackenzie -- Adult education / Philip Silva, Shelby Gull Laird -- Intergenerational education / Shih-Tsen Nike Liu, Matthew Kaplan -- Inclusive education / Olivia Aguilar, Libby McCann, Kendra Liddicoat -- Educator professional development / Rebecca L. Franzen, Cynthia Thomashow, Mary Leou, Zintle Songqwaru -- Educational approaches -- Cities as classrooms / Mary Leou, Marianna Kalaitzidakis -- Environmental art / Hilary Inwood, Joe Heimlich, Kumara Ward, Jennifer Adams -- Adventure education / Denise Mitten, Lewis Cheung, Wanglin Yan, Robert Withrow-Clark -- Urban agriculture / Illène Pevec, John Nzira, Soul Shava, Michael Barnet -- Ecological restoration / Elizabeth McCann, Tania Schusler -- Green infrastructure / Laura Cole, Timon McPhearson, Cecilia Herzog, Alex Russ -- Digital storytelling / Maria Daskolia, Giuliana Dettori, Raul Lejano -- Urban planning / Andrew Rudd, Karen Malone, M'lis Bartlett -- Educational trends / Alex Russ, Marianne Krasny

This paper addresses the issue of how to provide affordances for youth development in the context of environmental stewardship in cities. Urban environmental education encompasses place-based and action-oriented stewardship practices, including community gardening and vegetable production, often with the dual goals of developing youth and community assets. Yet in-depth understanding of how these goals are achieved is lacking. Using narrative inquiry, we explored participant experiences in a multi-year agriculture internship program conducted by the food justice organization East New York Farms! (ENYF) in Brooklyn, NY. Emerging from our conversations with youth were five themes defining their intern experience: ENYF as somewhere to belong, to be pushed, to grapple with complexity, to practice leadership, and to become yourself. We propose a theory of change that emphasizes politicized notions of caring as a foundation for cultivating developmental assets, including competence, contribution, and critical consciousness, among youth who participate in ENYF programs multiple years. This paper extends the literature on socio-environmental affordances to encompass urban environmental education programs, which incorporate physical and social features that act as affordances. Further, this paper describes a feedback loop in which youth afforded opportunities to develop assets through contributing to their community in turn create affordances for additional youth and adults.

Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; The Principled Chapter; I Emergence: Why Do Civic Ecology Practices Happen?; 1 Broken Places; Steward Story: Monique Pilié; 2 Love of Life, Love of Place; Steward Story: Nilka Martell; The First Interlude; II Bricolage: Piecing the Practice Together; 3 Creating Community, Creating Connections; Steward Story: Kazem Nadjariun; 4 Oyster Spat and Live Oaks-Memories; Gallery of Places; 5 Ecosystem Services: What's Nature-Including Humans-Got to Offer?; Steward Story: Helga Garduhn and Marian Przybilla; 6 Stewardship, Health, and Well-Being.