Theoretical Perspectives In Environment Behavior Research

Author : Seymour Wapner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461547016
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theoretical Perspectives in Environment-Behavior Research written by Seymour Wapner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following upon the Handbook of Japan-United States Environment-Behavior Research, published by Plenum in 1997, leading experts review the interrelationships among theory, problem, and method in environment-behavior research. The chapters focus on the philosophical and theoretical assumptions underlying current research and practice in the area and link those assumptions to specific substantive questions and methodologies

Author : Daniel Stokols
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1468422774
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Environment and Behavior written by Daniel Stokols and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inception of this volume can be traced to a series of Environmental Psychology Colloquia presented at the University of California, Irvine, dur ing the spring of 1974. These colloquia were held in conjunction with Social Ecology 252, a graduate seminar on Man and the Environment. Although the eight colloquia covered a wide range of topics and exemplified a diversity of research techniques, they seemed to converge on some common theoretical and methodological assumptions about the na ture of environment-behavioral research. The apparent continuities among these colloquia suggested the utility of developing a manuscript that would provide a historical overview of research on environment and be havior, a representation of its major concerns, and an analysis of its concep tual and empirical trends. Thus, expanded versions of the initial presen tations were integrated with a supplemental set of invited manuscripts to yield the present volume of original contributions by leading researchers in the areas of ecological and environmental psychology.

Author : Paul D. Cherulnik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521337700
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Applications of Environment-Behavior Research written by Paul D. Cherulnik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-07-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes thirteen cases in which architects, city planners and designers used psychological theory and research to make their work more responsive to the needs of people.

Author : Robert B. Bechtel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471188476
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Environmental Psychology written by Robert B. Bechtel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-01-17 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international team of leading scholars explores the latest theories, research, and applications critical to environmental psychology Featuring the latest research and concepts in the field straight from the world's leading scholars and practitioners, Handbook of Environmental Psychology provides a balanced and comprehensive overview of this rapidly growing field. Bringing together contributions from an international team of top researchers representing a myriad of disciplines, this groundbreaking resource provides you with a pluralistic approach to the field as an interdisciplinary effort with links to other disciplines. Addressing a variety of issues and practice settings, Handbook of Environmental Psychology is divided into five organized and accessible parts to provide a thorough overview of the theories, research, and applications at the forefront of environmental psychology today. Part I deals with sharpening theories; Part II links the subject to other disciplines; Part III focuses on methods; Part IV highlights applications; and Part V examines the future of the field. Defining the ongoing revolution in thinking about how the environment and psychology interact, Handbook of Environmental Psychology is must reading for anyone coping directly with the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that are destroying our environment and putting our lives in jeopardy. Topics include: * Healthy design * Restorative environments * Links to urban planning * Contaminated environments * Women's issues * Environments for aging * Climate, weather, and crime * The history and future of disaster research * Children's environments * Personal space in a digital age * Community planning

Author : Erwin H. Zube
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461307171
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advances in Environment, Behavior and Design written by Erwin H. Zube and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume in the Advances in Environment, Behavior, and Design series follows the pattern of Volume 1. It is organized into six sections user group research, consisting of advances in theory, place research, sociobehavioral research, research and design methods, and research utilization. The authors of the chapters in this volume represent a range of disciplines, including architecture, geography, psychology, social ecology, and urban planning. They also offer international perspectives: Tommy Garling from Sweden, Graeme Hardie from South Africa (re cently relocated to North Carolina), Gerhard Kaminski from the Federal Republic of Germany, and Roderick Lawrence from Switzerland (for merly from Australia). Although most chapters address topics or issues that are likely to be familiar to readers (environmental perception and cognition, facility pro gramming, and environmental evaluation), four chapters address what the editors perceive to be new topics for environment, behavior, and design research. Herbert Schroeder reports on advances in research on urban for estry. For most of us the term forest probably conjures up visions of dense woodlands in rural or wild settings. Nevertheless, in many parts of the country, urban areas have higher densities of tree coverage than can be found in surrounding rural landscapes. Schroeder reviews re search that addresses the perceived and actual benefits and costs associ ated with these urban forests.

Author : James A. Forte
Publisher : Brooks Cole
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Behavior and the Social Environment written by James A. Forte and published by Brooks Cole. This book was released on 2007 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first edition theories-based book for human behavior provides students with three key tools for theory-by-theory comprehension: models, metaphors and maps. These tools help students to easily compare and contrast theories as well as understand their relevance to social work practice.

Author : Robert Gifford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118795334
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Research Methods for Environmental Psychology written by Robert Gifford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the full spectrum of methodology, the timely and indispensible Research Methods for Environmental surveys the research and application methods for studying, changing, and improving human attitudes, behaviour and well-being in relation to the physical environment. The first new book covering research methods in environmental psychology in over 25 years. Brings the subject completely up-to-date with coverage of the latest methodology in the field The level of public concern over the impact of the environment on humans is high, making this book timely and of real interest to a fast growing discipline Comprehensively surveys the research and application methods for studying, changing, and improving human attitudes, behavior, and well-being in relation to the physical environment Robert Gifford is internationally recognised as one of the leading individuals in this field, and the contributors include many of the major leaders in the discipline

Author : Max H. Bazerman
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780787908096
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environment, Ethics, and Behavior written by Max H. Bazerman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays, leading social, cognitive and decision psychologists offer psychological theory and contemporary environmental and ethical issues.

Author : Irwin Altman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1468408089
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Behavior and Environment written by Irwin Altman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers comprising this second volume of Human Behavior and the Environment represent, as do their predecessors, a cross section of current work in the broad area of problems dealing with interrelation ships between the physical environment and human behavior, at both the individual and the aggregate levels. Considering the two volumes as a unit, we have included papers covering a broad spectrum of problems ranging from the theoretical to the applied, and from the disciplinary-based to the interdisciplinary and professional. Approxi mately half of the papers are written by psychologists, with the remainder coming, in part, from such other disciplines as sociology, geography, and from such diverse applied and professional fields as natural recreation, landscape architecture, urban planning, and opera tions research. The volumes thus provide an overview of work on current topical problems. Yet, as the field is developing, specialization is inevitably increasing apace, and the editors as well as the publisher have become convinced of the desirability for futu're volumes in this series to be organized along topical lines, with successive volumes devoted to different aspects of this rather sprawling field. Thus, Volume 3, currently in the planning stage, will be devoted exclusively to the interaction of children with the physical environment, considered from diverse viewpoints, again including authors from diverse fields of specialization.

Author : Ervin H. Zube
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advances in Environment, Behavior, and Design written by Ervin H. Zube and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1987 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: