Young children contribute to nature stewardship.

Research on young children in environmental education (EE) has focused on unstructured play in, or experiencing, nature. Little attention has been paid to young children's stewardship efforts, or to the relation of such efforts to young children's learning and capacity to contribute to their communities and local nature. This perspectives paper draws on the first author's experience guiding pre-k and kindergarten children (4-6 years old) in outdoor educational projects in Santo Domingo (SD), Dominican Republic, in which the children produced a park guide and a short film.

Cultivating Positive Youth Development, Critical Consciousness, and Authentic Care in Urban Environmental Education.

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.

Adaptive Capacity in Community Forest Management: A Systematic Review of Studies in East Asia.

This study investigated the indicators of adaptive capacity along with disturbances in community forest management systems in the East Asian countries, China, Japan and South Korea. Although these countries have centuries-old traditions of community-based forest management, they have been less researched in light of adaptive capacity for resilient social-ecological systems. Recent social and ecological disturbances bring about new challenges and/or opportunities to the capacity of forest related communities to adapt to rapidly changing conditions.