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Richard Louv is the chairman of the Children & Nature Network, has served as adviser to the Ford Foundation’s Leadership for a Changing World award program and the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child.
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Based on the totality of my life experiences as a child, young man and father, my academic research, and plenty of personal inquiry, I'm with Louv.
Wallace J Nichols: Flipping the Switch: See the Wild, Find Yourself Wallace J Nichols 2011
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But the biggest barrier to getting kids outside is fear, Louv says.
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In an influential 2005 book, nature writer Richard Louv coined the phrase "nature-deficit disorder" to describe a societal problem in which children and adults are cut off from the natural world.
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Based on the totality of my life experiences as a child, young man and father, my academic research, and plenty of personal inquiry, I'm with Louv.
Wallace J Nichols: Flipping the Switch: See the Wild, Find Yourself Wallace J Nichols 2011
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In "The Nature Principle" Algonquin, 317 pages, $24.95 , Mr. Louv lays out a patchwork of scientific findings and personal anecdotes to contend that adults, too, suffer from what he defines as "an atrophied awareness, a diminished ability to find meaning in the life that surrounds us."
Gift Guide: Best of Science Jennie Erin Smith 2011
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Measurably better, says Richard Louv, whose 2005 book, "Last Child in the Woods," advanced the idea of a "nature-deficit disorder" afflicting young people.
Gift Guide: Best of Science Jennie Erin Smith 2011
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Based on the totality of my life experiences as a child, young man and father, my academic research, and plenty of personal inquiry, I'm with Louv.
Wallace J Nichols: Flipping the Switch: See the Wild, Find Yourself Wallace J Nichols 2011
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The good news, Mr. Louv says, is that it's never too late to correct your NDD.
Gift Guide: Best of Science Jennie Erin Smith 2011
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Based on the totality of my life experiences as a child, young man and father, my academic research, and plenty of personal inquiry, I'm with Louv.
Wallace J Nichols: Flipping the Switch: See the Wild, Find Yourself Wallace J Nichols 2011
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