Edited Volumes

Loebach, J., Owens, P., Little, S. & Cox, A. (Eds.). (2020)  Handbook for designing public spaces for young people: Processes, practices and policies for youth inclusion. 

Refereed Journal Articles

Jaffe, J. & Loebach, J. (2023). Fostering youth-enabling environments: A participatory affordance capability framework for the development and use of youth-engaged environmental assessments. Youth & Society, published online ahead of press, 1-29.

Loebach, J. & Cox, A. (2022).  Playing in ‘The Backyard’:  Environmental features and conditions of a natural playspace which support diverse outdoor play activities among younger children. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Special Issue: Outdoor play and learning for health, wellbeing and development in early childhood. doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912661

Loebach, J., Meredith, G. & Rakow, D. (2022). 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. Frontiers in Psychology Special Issue: Mental health promotion during Covid-19: Applications from self-care resources, lifestyles and environments, 13: 869122. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.869122. 

Barankevich, R. & Loebach, J. (2022). 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. Frontiers in Psychology Special Issue: Mental health promotion during Covid-19: Applications from self-care resources, lifestyles and environments, 13: 879408. Doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.879408. 

Ramsden, R., Han, C., Mount, D., Loebach, J. Cox, A., Herrington, S., Bundy, A. Sandseter, E., Stone, M., Tremblay, M.S. & Brussoni, M. (2022). PROmoting Early Childhood Outside (PRO-ECO): an outdoor free play intervention for children aged 3 to 5 years in early childhood education centres - Study protocol for a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial. JMIR Research Protocols, 11(7), e38365. doi: 10.2196/38365.  (IF: 1.85; HI: 33)

Bishop, K., Corkery, L., Ashfar, N., Aminpour, F., Brussoni, M., Carroll, P., Derr, V., Dimoulias, K. Edwards, C., Flanders Cushing, D., Herrington, S., Johnson, J., Kreutz, A., Loebach, J., Owens, P.E., Tresize, B. & Witten, K. (2022). The Impacts of COVID-19 on children, youth and their environments in Canada, the USA, New Zealand and Australia. Children, Youth & Environments.

Loebach, J., Sanches, M., Jaffe, J., Elton-Marshall, T. (2021).  Paving the way for neighborhood play: Examining socio-environmental barriers to community-based outdoor play.  International Journal of Environmental Reearch & Public Health, 18, 3617. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18073617.

Loebach, J. & Cox, A. (2020). Tool for Observing Play Outdoors (TOPO): A new typology for capturing children's play behaviors in outdoor environments. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Special Issue: The Environment and Children's Health, 17, 5611, doi:10.3390/ijerph17155611.

Loebach, J. & Tilleczek, K. (2019). Keyboard warriors? Visualising technology and well-being with, for and by Indigenous youth through digital stories. Visual Studies, published online November 25, 2019 ahead of print. doi:10.1080/1472586X.2019.1691050

Loebach, J. & Gilliland, J. (2019). Examining social and built environment factors influencing children’s independent use of their neighbourhoods and the experience of local settings as child-friendly. Journal of Planning Education and Research, published online March 5, 2019 ahead of print. doi:10.1177/0739456X19828444

Gilliland, J., Maltby, M., Xu, X., Luginaah, I., Loebach, J. & Shah, T. (2019). Is Active Travel a Breath of Fresh Air? Examining Children's Exposure to Air Pollution During the School Commute. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, 29, 51-57. doi:10.1016/j.sste.2019.02.004

Cox, A., Loebach, J. & Little, S. (2018). Understanding the Nature Play Milieu: Using Behavior Mapping to Investigate Children's Play in Outdoor and Nature Playspaces. Children, Youth and Environments Special Issue: Unleashing the Power of Play, 28(2), 232-261. doi:10.7721/chilyoutenvi.28.2.0232

McKendrick, J.H., Loebach, J. & Casey, T. (2018). Realizing Article 31 through General Comment 17: overcoming challenges and the quest for an optimum play environment. Children, Youth and Environments Special Issue: Unleashing the Power of Play, 28(2), 1-11. doi:10.7721/chilyoutenvi.28.2.0001

McKendrick, J.H., Loebach, J. & Casey, T. (2018). Reflections on the challenges understood to compromise optimum play environments. Children, Youth and Environments Special Issue: Unleashing the Power of Play, 28(2), 262-273. doi: 10.7721/chilyoutenvi.28.2.0262

Loebach, J. & Gilliland, J. (2016). Neighbourhood play on the endangered list: Examining patterns in children’s local activity and mobility using GPS monitoring and qualitative GIS. Children’s Geographies, 14 (5), 573-589. doi:10.1080/14733285.2016.1140126.

Tilleczek, K. & Loebach, J. (2015). Research goes to the cinema: The veracity of videography with, for and by youth. Research in Comparative & International Education (Special Issue: The Potential of Videography in Comparative Education), 10 (3), pp. 354-366. doi:10.1177/1745499915581084.

Loebach, J. & Gilliland, J. (2014). Free range kids? Examining socio-environmental factors influencing children’s use of their neighbourhood activity spaces. Environment & Behavior, 48 (3), 421-453. doi:10.1177/0013916514543177.

Gilliland, J., Rangel, C., Healy, M., Tucker, P., Loebach, J., Hess, P., He, M., Irwin, J., & Wilk, P. (2012). Linking childhood obesity to the built environment: a multi-level analysis of home and school neighbourhood factors associated with body mass index. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 103 (9), Supp 3, S15-S21. doi:10.1007/BF03403830

Gilliland, J., Maltby, M., Loebach, J., Xu, X., Mates, A. & Luginaah, I. (2011). Emerging methodologies for examining environmental influences on children’s exposure to air pollution. International Society for Environmental Epidemiology Abstracts, 2011 (1). doi:10.1289/isee.2011.01955

Loebach, J. & Gilliland, J. (2010). Child-Led Tours to Uncover Children's Perceptions and Use of Neighborhood Environments. Children, Youth & Environments, 20(1), 53-90. doi:10.7721/chilyoutenvi.20.1.0052

Book Chapters

Yantzi, N. & Loebach, J. (in press).Children's geographies: Playing with participatory methods.  In M.W. Rosenberg, S. Lovell & S.E. Coen (Eds.) Handbook of methodologies in human geography.  New York, NY: Routledge.

Loebach, J. (2020). ‘Green Direction’: Integrating youth into the design and building of public outdoor playspaces. In J. Loebach, A. Cox, S. Little & P. Eubanks Owens (Eds.) Designing public spaces for young people: Processes, practices and policies for youth inclusion. New York: Routledge.

Loebach, J., Cox, A. & Little, S. (2020). Behavior mapping to support the development of youth-inclusive public spaces. In J. Loebach, A. Cox, S. Little & P. Eubanks Owens (Eds.) Designing public spaces for young people: Processes, practices and policies for youth inclusion. New York: Routledge. 

Campbell, V., Tilleczek, K. & Loebach, J. (2019). Knowing Youth and Technology: Emerging Methods. In K. Tilleczek & V. Campbell (Eds.) Youth in the Digital Age: Paradox, Promise, Predicament. New York: Routledge.

Kreutz, A., Loebach, J. & Nakai Kidd, A. (2018). The Indigenous architecture of Early Learning Centres: International comparative case studies from Australia, Canada and New Zealand. In E. Grant, K. Greenlop, A.L. Reftiti & D.J. Glenn (Eds.) Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture. Singapore: Springer Nature.

Loebach, J. & Derr, V. (2018). Putting it together and taking action: Participatory Schoolyard Design (Case Study). In V. Derr, L. Chawla & M. Mintzer (Eds). Placemaking with Children and Youth: Participatory Practices for Planning Sustainable Communities. Oakland, CA: New Village Press.

Other Publications

Loebach, J., Meredith, G., Rakow, D., Shepley, M. & Farooquee, M. (2022). The impact of nature engagement on the health and well-being of staff at Cornell University: Reflections and experiences through COVID-19. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University

Elton-Marshall, T., Loebach, J., Wijesinga, R., Veselka, L. & Pradeep, B. (2018). Outdoor Play Among Students in the Thames Valley Board: Preliminary Findings. London, Ontario: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Lay Report).

Loebach, J. (2016). Securing a future for early years in the Waterloo Region District School Board: The impact of outdoor playspace renovations on children’s play opportunities and behaviours. Toronto: Evergreen.

Loebach, J. (2015). The benefits and challenges of online or mobile interviewing with youth. Charlottetown, PEI: Young Lives Research Lab, University of Prince Edward Island. Available at katetilleczek.ca

Loebach, J. & Madigan, R. (2015). Collecting social media data for qualitative research. Charlottetown, PEI: Young Lives Research Lab, University of Prince Edward Island. Available at katetilleczek.ca

Loebach, J. (2013.) Children’s neighbourhood geographies: Examining children’s perception and use of their neighbourhood environments for healthy activity. London: University of Western Ontario. 

Loebach, J. (2011). The Magical Park of Aviacion: Lessons from a participatory design project with the children of Aviacion, Peru. PlayRights , Vol 11 (2). Available at http://ipaworld.org/category/play-resources/playrights-magazine/