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Children´s Environmental Identity Development: Negotiating Inner and Outer Tensions in Natural World Socialization proposes a theoretical framework for considering how children´s identity in/with/for nature evolves through formative experiences.

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Children´s Environmental Identity Development: Negotiating Inner and Outer Tensions in Natural World Socialization draws inspiration from environmental education, education for sustainability, environmental psychology, sociology, and child development to propose a theoretical framework for considering how children´s identity in/with/for nature evolves through formative experiences. The natural world socialization of young children considers not only how the natural environment affects the growth and development of young children but also how children shape and influence natural settings. Such childhood relations with the environment are explicitly linked to familial, sociocultural, geographical, and educational contexts. While the book is theoretical and will be of interest to academics and students, the use of accessible language, vignettes, and figures will make it useful to teachers, policy-makers, parents, and others genuinely concerned with children´s relationships with other humans and the natural world.

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List of Illustrations - Acknowledgments - Preface - A Model for Environmental Identity Development - Trust in Nature vs. Mistrust in Nature - Spatial Autonomy vs. Environmental Shame - Environmental Competency vs. Environmental Disdain - Environmental Action vs. Environmental Harm - Methodologies and Methods for Environmental Identity - Development Research - Diverse Observations of EID - Contributor Biographies.

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"Carie Green offers unique and thought-provoking insights into children´s environmental identity development. Her work on a timely topic is well-researched and masterfully presented. Green not only offers information about environmental identity, but also offers guidance on what to do with that information. Her concerns and hopes for children and the natural world are evident throughout the text. I highly recommend this book to readers from multiple disciplines and with a variety of interests." - Ruth Wilson, Professor Emerita, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, and Research Library Curator, Children and Nature Network

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