Places and Spaces (Paperback)

Paperback. Report Card 17 explores how 43 OECD/EU countries are faring in providing healthy environments for children. Do children have clean water to drink? Do they have good-quality air to breathe? Are their homes free of lead and mould? How many children live in overcrowded homes? How many have access to green play spaces, safe from road traffic? Data show that a nation's wealth does not guarantee a healthy environment. Far too many children are deprived of a healthy home, irreversibly damaging their current and future well-being. Beyond children's immediate environments, over-consumption in some of the world's richest countries is destroying children's environments globally. This threatens both children worldwide and future generations. To provide all children with safe and healthy environments, governments, policymakers, businesses and all stakeholders are called to act on a set of policy recommendations. In 43 OECD/EU nations, Report Card 17 exposes how children are denied essential conditionsclean water, fresh air, safe homes, and secure green spaceseven in affluent societies. Data reveals that wealth doesnt guarantee a healthy environment, urging decisive policy reforms for a safer future. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…