Environmental Problems/Behavioral Solutions

A 1984 exploration of the relation between physical environment and human behaviour.

John D. Cone (Author), Steven C. Hayes (Author)

9780521319737, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 14 February 1985

304 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.45 kg

Review of the hardback: '… The authors' intent was not only to present a substantial body of knowledge, but also to set forth a 'point of view'. They have done this admirably …' Contemporary Psychology

In this book, first published in the UK in 1984, John Cone and Stephen Hayes explore the relation between physical environment and human behaviour. A fledgling field at the time, this study of the roots of environmentally relevant psychology has proved both fruitful and exciting. Within this text, Cone and Hayes first explore the fields of physical and behavioural technology, and the few studies previously conducted around the latter. They then focus their attention on the principles and methodologies of the study of environmentally relevant behaviour and psychology, absorbing the work undertaken thus far on factors such as population control and noise pollution, and assembling its conclusions. A summary of the tasks facing researchers at the time then rounds off a text which will be invaluable in the analysis of the early and often trepid steps taken in the study of the physical environment and its connections to human behaviour.

Part I. The Nature of Environmentally Relevant Behavioral Science: 1. Behavioral science and environmental problems
2. Environmentally relevant psychology
Part II. An Applied Behavior-Analytic Approach to Environmentally Relevant Behavioral Science: 3. Basic principles of behavior
4. Research strategies and designs in the development of behavioral strategies
Part III. Solving Problems of Environmental Aesthetics: 5. Environmental aesthetics: litter and environmental design
6. Noise and its control
Part IV. Solving Health-Related and Resource-Related Environmental Problems: 7. Population control
8. Recycling
9. Transportation
10. Residential energy conservation
11. Residential water conservation
Part V. Promoting the Use of Behavioral Approaches to Environmental Problems: 12. The generality of behavioral solutions
13. Promoting behavioral-science impact through experimental social reform
Glossary
References
Indices.

Subject Areas: Psychology [JM]