Do Our Kids Have Nature-Deficit Disorder? - References
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Richard Louv is the author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
(Algonquin Books, 2008) and Chairman of the Children & Nature Network (www.childrenandnature.org). He was awarded the Audubon Medal in 2008.
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