Living in the future: environmental concerns, parenting, and low-impact lifestyles

Shirani, Fiona, Groves, Christopher ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5873-1119, Butler, Catherine, Parkhill, Karen, Henwood, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4631-5468 and Pidgeon, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8991-0398 2016. Living in the future: environmental concerns, parenting, and low-impact lifestyles. Ansell, N, Klocker, N and Skelton, T, eds. Geographies of Global Issues: Change and Threat, Vol. 8. Geographies of Children and Young People, Singapore: Springer, pp. 1-20. (10.1007/978-981-4585-95-8_4-1)

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Abstract

Existing work has demonstrated how the presence of children of different ages in families can impact on people’s ability to make imaginative connections to longer-term socio-environmental futures and maintain these links in the context of everyday pressures. This chapter explores such connections by presenting selected data extracts from residents of a low-impact ecovillage. The ecovillage represents a relatively unusual case site where people showed strong connections to the future, which had an impact on their present lifestyle choices. In particular, the way in which parents spoke about their children as central to their decision to live a low-impact rural lifestyle is highlighted. The ecovillage data is contextualized via an extended literature review covering issues regarding parenting, rural childhoods, low-impact living, and how these areas relate to a connection with the future. Drawing together these insights, the relevance of resilience is discussed as a concept for thinking about how particular visions of the future may create lifestyles that make possible flexibility and adaptability in the face of uncertainty. In summary, this chapter highlights how parents’ views of wider environmental futures can impact on the lifestyles they foster for children in the present.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	Springer
ISBN:	978-9814585538
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	28 June 2017
Last Modified:	12 Nov 2024 01:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/101857

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