Research Handbook on Childhoodnature: Assemblages of Childhood and Nature Research
暫譯: 童年自然研究手冊：童年與自然的組合研究

本手冊匯集了有關「童年與自然」（ChildhoodNature）的研究，並將該領域現有的研究主題和重要作者與由世界級研究者撰寫的新前沿研究結合在一起，這些研究基於跨文化和國際研究數據。

本手冊的基本目標有兩個：

- 為「童年與自然」研究者開辟空間；
- 將「童年與自然」研究整合成一個能夠指導教育的集合。

使用新概念「童年與自然」反映了編輯和作者的基本信念，以及該領域最新的創新概念，認為孩子就是自然，這應該在這一整合概念中重新定義。因此，本手冊將批判並拒絕以人類為中心的自然觀。這樣，它將顛覆現有的考量兒童與自然的方式，並拒絕人類優於自然的觀點。

該作品將包括一本由兒童和青少年撰寫的「童年與自然」伴侶書，這將有效地使兒童和青少年不僅能夠進行自己的研究，還能夠與《童年與自然國際研究手冊》一起撰寫和表達他們的研究。

Dr Amy Cutter-Mackenzie is a Professor at Southern Cross University, School of Education, in Sustainability, Environment and Education. She is the Deputy Head of School Research & HDR Training for the School of Education, as well as the Research Leader of the 'Sustainability, Environment and Education' (SEE) Research Cluster. In 2014 Amy was awarded the Australian Association for Environmental Education Fellowship (Life Achievement Award) for her outstanding contribution to environmental education research. Amy's research is primarily situated in the area of children's ontologies and agencies in environmental education and its research. She has published substantially in the form of books, book chapters, journal articles, conference publications and creative works. Amy's latest two books are: 'Young Children's Play and Early Childhood Environmental Education' (Springer, co-authored with Edwards, Moore & Boyd) and 'The Socioecological Educator' (Springer, Co-edited with Wattchow, Jeans, Alfrey, Brown & O'Connor). Amy is also the Editor of the Australian Journal of Environmental Education (Cambridge University Press) and Consulting Editor for the Journal of Environmental Education, the International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education (NAAEE) and International Journal of Environmental and Science Education. She is also the Chief Investigator of national (including ARCs) and international projects in the areas of early childhood environmental education, climate change education and ChildhoodNature.
Dr Karen Malone is Professor of Sustainability, Deputy Director for Centre for Educational Research and Leader of the sustainability research group in the at Western Sydney University. She is a global expert on sustainability and theorising the posthuman in the Anthropocene; child/nature and multi-species relations; sustainable cities; social sustainability; child (family) friendly cities and communities; globalisation, international and urban studies; human and non human rights; and the sociology of contemporary childhoods. She has predominantly utilised critical and poststructuralist theory but in more recent times has been engaging with conceptual work in posthumanism and vital (new) materialism. She is on the editorial Board for a number of journals including: Children, Youth and Environments, Australian Journal for Environmental Education, Children and Society and is a member of the CommonWorlds Collective. She is founder and chair, UNICEF Child-Friendly Cities Asia Pacific Network and an advisory member of UNICEF's Research Committee. In the past ten years Professor Malone has attracted over 2 million dollars in research grants, awards and consultancies and has published 5 books, 28 book chapters and 50 refereed journal publications. She is currently writing a sole-authored Palgrave book for the childhood and development series titled: Children in the Anthropocene and just published an edited collection for Springer with Son Truong and Tonia Gray Reimaginging Sustainability in Precarious Times. She has worked for UNESCO international projects supporting policy and research for the Decade for Education for Sustainable Development, and has conducted research for UNICEF Child Friendly Cities program in five majority world nations. In 2013 Dapto Dreaming, a project where school children designed with Stockland urban developers a new greenfield community she won the Australian Planning Institute of Australia NSW Presidential award for best urban planning project of the year.
Elisabeth Barratt Hacking is Director of Studies for the MA Education and MA International Education and Globalisation in the Department of Education, University of Bath, UK. Elisabeth has published widely in the field of environmental education. Her research interests relate to childhood and environment, the relationship between children and their local environment and children's participation.

艾米·卡特-麥肯齊博士是南十字星大學教育學院可持續性、環境與教育的教授。她是教育學院研究與高級研究訓練的副院長，以及「可持續性、環境與教育」（SEE）研究集群的研究領導者。2014年，艾米因其在環境教育研究方面的卓越貢獻而獲得澳大利亞環境教育協會的獎學金（終身成就獎）。艾米的研究主要集中在兒童在環境教育中的本體論和行動能力。她在書籍、書章、期刊文章、會議出版物和創意作品方面有大量出版。艾米最近的兩本書是：《幼兒的遊戲與早期環境教育》（Springer，與愛德華茲、摩爾和博伊德共同撰寫）和《社會生態教育者》（Springer，與瓦特喬、吉恩斯、阿爾弗雷、布朗和奧康納共同編輯）。艾米還是《澳大利亞環境教育期刊》（劍橋大學出版社）的編輯，以及《環境教育期刊》、《國際早期兒童環境教育期刊》（NAAEE）和《國際環境與科學教育期刊》的顧問編輯。她還是早期兒童環境教育、氣候變化教育和兒童自然領域的國家（包括ARC）和國際項目的首席研究員。

卡倫·馬龍博士是西悉尼大學可持續性教授、教育研究中心副主任及可持續性研究小組的領導者。她是可持續性和人類世後人類理論的全球專家；兒童/自然和多物種關係；可持續城市；社會可持續性；兒童（家庭）友好的城市和社區；全球化、國際和城市研究；人權和非人權；以及當代兒童社會學。她主要運用批判性和後結構主義理論，但最近也開始接觸後人類主義和重要（新）物質主義的概念性工作。她是多本期刊的編輯委員會成員，包括《兒童、青年與環境》、《澳大利亞環境教育期刊》、《兒童與社會》，並且是CommonWorlds Collective的成員。她是聯合國兒童基金會（UNICEF）亞太地區兒童友好城市網絡的創始人和主席，也是UNICEF研究委員會的顧問成員。在過去十年中，馬龍教授吸引了超過200萬美元的研究資助、獎項和顧問費，並出版了5本書、28章書和50篇經過審核的期刊文章。她目前正在為Palgrave撰寫一本獨著書籍，題為《人類世中的兒童》，並剛與索恩·阮和托尼亞·格雷共同出版了一本編輯集《在不穩定時期重新想像可持續性》（Springer）。她曾為聯合國教科文組織的國際項目工作，支持可持續發展教育十年的政策和研究，並在五個主要世界國家進行聯合國兒童友好城市計劃的研究。在2013年，Dapto Dreaming項目中，學校孩子們與Stockland城市開發商共同設計了一個新的綠地社區，她因此獲得了澳大利亞規劃協會新南威爾士州總統獎，表彰年度最佳城市規劃項目。

伊莉莎白·巴拉特·哈金是英國巴斯大學教育系的碩士教育和碩士國際教育與全球化的學習主任。伊莉莎白在環境教育領域有廣泛的出版。她的研究興趣與兒童與環境、兒童與其當地環境之間的關係以及兒童的參與有關。