Environmental Psychology: An Introduction

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Linda Steg, Agnes E. van den Berg, Judith I. M. de Groot
John Wiley & Sons, 30 apr 2012 - 376 pagina's
Environmental Psychology: An Introduction offers a research-based introduction to the psychological relationship between humans and their built and natural environments and discusses how sustainable environments can be created to the benefit of both people and nature

  • Explores the environment's effects on human wellbeing and behaviour, factors influencing environmental behaviour and ways of encouraging pro-environmental action
  • Provides a state-of-the-art overview of recent developments in environmental psychology, with an emphasis on sustainability as a unifying principle for theory, research and interventions
  • While focusing primarily on Europe and North America, also discusses environmental psychology in non-Western and developing countries
  • Responds to a growing interest in the contribution of environmental psychologists to understanding and solving environmental problems and promoting the effects of environmental conditions on health and wellbeing

 

 

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History scope and methods
1
ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON HUMAN BEHAVIOUR AND WELLBEING
13
Environmental risk perception
15
Environmental stress
27
Visual landscape assessment and human landscape perception
37
Health benefits of nature
47
Restorative environments
57
Ambivalence towards nature and natural landscapes
67
Affective and symbolic aspects of environmental behaviour
165
Motivational individual and structural aspects influencing cooperation
175
Models to explain environmental behaviour
185
Yesterdays habits preventing change for tomorrow? The influence of automaticity on environmental behaviour
197
Environmental psychology in Latin America
211
ENCOURAGING PROENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOUR
221
Encouraging proenvironmental behaviour with rewards
233
Persuasive technology to promote proenvironmental behaviour
243

Human dimensions of wildlife
77
Appraisals of built environments and approaches to building design that promote wellbeing and healthy behaviour
87
Urban environmental quality
97
Environment and quality of life
107
How cues in the environment affect normative behaviour
119
Cues That Strengthen the Hedonic Goal
126
FACTORS INFLUENCING ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOUR
129
Measuring environmental behaviour
131
Values and proenvironmental behaviour
141
Social norms and proenvironmental behaviour
153
Acceptability of environmental policies
255
Processes of change
267
Simulating social environmental systems
281
Environmental issues in developing countries
293
Summary trends and future perspectives
303
References
315
Glossary
355
Index
371
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