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Changing Demographic and Social Trends <br />Increasing Awareness of the Health Benefits of Nature <br />• Time in natural environments is important to <br />children's intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, and <br />physical development <br />• Exposure to natural areas can help reduce anxiety, <br />and other mental health and learning disorders <br />related to attention deficit disorder <br />Increasingly Diverse Population <br />• Changing outdoor recreation and nature education <br />demands <br />• Need to expand and adapt outreach methods <br />• Opportunity to increase diversity within the fields of <br />conservation/environmental sciences <br />6 Chapter 2: Trends <br />Children's Nature -Deficit Disorder <br />• Children's play has changed from being outdoors to <br />indoors since the 1950s <br />• Adolescents'concerns about conservation and the <br />environment have generally declined since the early <br />1990s <br />-Children & Nature Network Children's Nature Deficit: <br />What We Know — and Don't Know September2009 <br />Financially Pinched <br />Need for partnerships <br />Focus on quality <br />Increased need for revenue <br />Balance between new and existing <br />Life -cycle cost considerations <br />r <br />100 / <br />