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Co-designing outdoor playspaces with children: A framework for analyzing participant design priorities

Joyce, K. & Loebach, J.

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Examining relationships between green space provision, youth health risks and neighborhood disadvantage

Janet Loebach, Rouzbeh Rahai, Asiya Natekal, Cory Parker, Byoung-Suk Kweon & Patsy Eubanks Owens

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Workplace barriers to spending time in nature to support staff well-being: A comparative case study

Janet Loebach, Don Rakow, Mardelle Shepley & Genevieve Meredith

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Results from the PROmoting Early Childhood Outside Cluster Randomized Trial

Rachel Ramsden, Dawn Mount, Yingyi Lin, Emily Fox, Susan Herrington, Janet Loebach, Adina Cox, Anita Bundy, Amber Fyfe-Johnson, Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter, Michelle Stone, Mark S. Tremblay, Mariana Brussoni

2025

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Developing the Playground Play Value and Usability Audit Tool (PVUA): An Evaluation of Content Validity via an Expert Panel

Thomas Morgenthaler, Janet Loebach, Helen Lynch, Duncan Pentland, Anders Kottorp & Christina Schulze

2025

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Using the Theory of Affordances to Understand Environment–Play Transactions: Environmental Taxonomy of Outdoor Play Space Features—A Scoping Review

Thomas Morgenthaler, Helen Lynch, Janet Loebach, Duncan Pentland, Christina Schulze

2024

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Running the risk: The social, behavioral and environmental associations with positive risk in children’s play activities in outdoor playspaces

Janet Loebach, Rachel Ramsden, Adina Cox, Karen Joyce, Mariana Brussoni

2023

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Designing Learning Environments for Promoting Young People's Constructive Coping with Climate Change [Book Chapter]

Abigail Brown, Silvia Collado, Gary W. Evans & Janet Loebach

2023

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Applying Trauma-Informed Design Principles to Therapeutic Residential Care Facilities to Reduce Retraumatization and Promote Resiliency Among Youth in Care

Rebecca L. Ames, Janet E. Loebach

2023

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Fostering Youth-Enabling Environments: A Participatory Affordance-Capability Framework for the Development and Use of Youth-Engaged Environmental Assessments

Julia Jaffe, Janet Loebach

2023

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Children's Geographies: Playing with Participatory Methods [Book Chapter]

Nicole Yantzi & Janet Loebach

2022

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An Intervention to Increase Outdoor Play in Early Childhood Education Centers (PROmoting Early Childhood Outside): Protocol for a Pilot Wait-list Control Cluster Randomized Trial

Rachel Ramsden, Christina S Han, Dawn Mount, Janet Loebach, Adina Cox, Susan Herrington, Anita Bundy, Amber Fyfe-Johnson, Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter, Michelle Stone, Mark S Tremblay, Mariana Brussoni

2022

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Time Outdoors in Nature to Improve Staff Well-Being: Examining Changes in Behaviors and Motivations Among University Staff in the Use of Natural Outdoor Environments Since the Emergence of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Janet Loebach, Donald A. Rakow, Genevieve Meredith and Mardelle McCuskey Shepley

2022

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Self-Care and Mental Health Among College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Social and Physical Environment Features of Interactions Which Impact Meaningfulness and Mitigate Loneliness

Ruth Barankevich and Janet Loebach

2022

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Playing in ‘The Backyard’: Environmental Features and Conditions of a Natural Playspace Which Support Diverse Outdoor Play Activities among Younger Children

Janet Loebach and Adina Cox

2022

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Paving the Way for Outdoor Play: Examining Socio-Environmental Barriers to Community-Based Outdoor Play

Janet Loebach, Marcos Sanches, Julia Jaffe, Tara Elton-Marshall

2021

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Routledge Handbook for Designing Public Spaces for Young People: Processes, Practices & Policies for Youth Inclusion

Janet Loebach, Sarah Little, Adina Cox & Patsy Eubanks Owens

2020

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Behavior Mapping to Support the Development of Youth-Inclusive Public Spaces [Book Chapter]

Janet Loebach, Adina Cox & Sarah Little

2020

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Tool for Observing Play Outdoors (TOPO): A New Typology for Capturing Children’s Play Behaviors in Outdoor Environments

Janet Loebach, Adina Cox

2020

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'Green Direction': Integrating Youth into the Design and Building of Public Outdoor Playspaces [Book Chapter]

Janet Loebach

2020

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Examining the Social and Built Environment Factors Influencing Children’s Independent Use of Their Neighborhoods and the Experience of Local Settings as Child-Friendly

Janet Loebach, Jason Gilliland

2019

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Keyboard warriors? Visualising technology and well-being with, for and by indigenous youth through digital stories

Janet Loebach, Kate Tilleczek, Brent Chaisson, Brian Sharp

2019

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Knowing Youth & Technology: Emerging Methods [Book Chapter]

Valerie Campbell, Kate Tilleczek & Janet Loebach

2019

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Is active travel a breath of fresh air? Examining children’s exposure to air pollution during the school commute

Jason Gilliland, Matthew Maltby, Xiaohong Xu, Isaac Luginaah, Janet Loebach, Tayyab Shah

2019

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Reflections on the Challenges to Providing Optimum Environments for Play

John H. McKendrick, Janet Loebach, Theresa Casey

2018

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Understanding the Nature Play Milieu: Using Behavior Mapping to Investigate Children's Activities in Outdoor Play Spaces

Adina Cox, Janet Loebach, Sarah Little

2018

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Overcoming Challenges and the Quest for an Optimum Play Environment

John H. McKendrick, Janet Loebach, Theresa Casey

2018

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The Indigenous Architecture of Early Learning Centres: International Comparative Case Studies from Australia, Canada & New Zealand [Book Chapter]

Angela Kreutz, Janet Loebach & Akari Nakai Kidd

2018

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Free Range Kids? Using GPS-Derived Activity Spaces to Examine Children’s Neighborhood Activity and Mobility

Janet Loebach, Jason Gilliland

2016

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Neighbourhood play on the endangered list: examining patterns in children's local activity and mobility using GPS monitoring and qualitative GIS

Janet Loebach, Jason Gilliland

2016

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Linking Childhood Obesity to the Built Environment: A Multi-level Analysis of Home and School Neighbourhood Factors Associated With Body Mass Index

Jason A. Gilliland, Claudia Y. Rangel, Martin A. Healy, Patricia Tucker, Janet E. Loebach, Paul M. Hess, Meizi He, Jennifer D. Irwin, Piotr Wilk

2012

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Child-Led Tours to Uncover Children’s Perceptions and Use of Neighborhood Environments

Janet Loebach, Jason Gilliland

2010

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