ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents the key ideas discussed in the previous chapters of this book. The book focuses on youth geographies and health from a broad inter-disciplinary and transdisciplinary perspective. It brings together research on children, youth, and families as individual subjects as well as on the dynamics between them, their schools, communities, spaces, and other environmental factors at various scales to highlight the importance of creating a nexus of health and wellbeing. The book focuses on the social, emotional and ecological wellbeing of youth and families, youth leadership and education, and transformation in neighborhoods characterized by poverty, health disparities, and environmental exposures is aligned with work to better understand how social and spatial systems can foster health. The work in the book pushes this literature beyond the developmental and ecological processes involved in how children learn to manipulate specific aspects of environments to pay more attention on the ways that those spaces are constructed through belief systems and ideologies.
