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Human Behavior and Environmental Sustainability
Charles Vlek (Edited by), C Vlek (Author), Linda Steg (Edited by), Rick H. Hoyle (Edited by)
9781405175487, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 14 August 2007
240 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.327 kg
Environmental sustainability is a necessity for all countries worldwide, and it is strongly related to human quality of life. Given that sustainability problems largely result from human-environment interactions, social and behavioral research is developing as a necessary complement to natural-science and technological studies of environmental problems. To demonstrate this, the various authors address key theoretical, methodological and policy-making questions about the behavioral dimensions of environmental sustainability. Successively considered are the appreciation of environmental risk, citizens’ annoyance from environmental noise, the evaluation of urban environmental quality, the restorative significance of nature experiences, fundamental behavioral processes and environmental motivations, and unsustainable-behavior change and the roles of technology therein. The usefulness of multidisciplinary research is emphasized. Finally explicated is psychology’s drive and potential for analyzing and supporting environmental sustainability as a long-term human social and economic interest.
INTRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTAT RISK STRESS, ANDA NOYANCE Annoyance Caused by Environmental Noise: Elements for Evidence-Based Noise Policies 41 EVALUATION OF URBAD ENVIRONMENT AND NATURE EXPERIENCES Preference for Nature in Urbanized Societies: Stress, Restoration, and the Pursuit of Sustainability 79 BEHAVIORAL PROCESSES AND ENVIRONMENTAL MOTIVATIONS Normative, Gain and Hedonic Goal Frames Guiding Environmental Behavior 117 ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR CHANGE AND TECHNOLOGY Technology's Four Roles in Understanding Individuals Conservation of Natural Resources 155 MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND THE PECURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY Environmental Psychology and Sustainable Development: Expansion, Maturation, and Challenges 199 2006 SPSSI PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Waltzing with a Monster: Bringing Research to Bear on Public Policy 215
Human Behavior and Environmental Sustainability: Problems, Driving Forces, and Research Topics 1
Charles Vlek and Linda Steg
Judgmental Discounting and Environmental Risk Perception: Dimensional Similarities, Domain Differe ses, and Implications for Sustainability 21
Alexander Gattig and Laurie Heralickx
Henk M.E. Miedema
Inhabitants' and Experts' Assessments of Environmental Quality for Urban Sustainability 59
Mirilia Bonnes, David Uzzell, Giuseppe Carrus, and Tanika Kelay
Agnes E. van den Berg, Terry Hartig, and Henk Staats
Simulating Human Behavior for Understanding and Managing Environmental Resource Use 97
Wander Jager and Hans Joachim Mosler
Siegwart Lindenberg and Linda Steg
Travel Demand Management Targeting Reduced Private Car Use: Effectiveness, Public Acceptability and Political Feasibility 139
lommy Garling and Geertje Schuitema
Cees J. H. Midden, Florian G. Kaiser, and L. Teddy Mc Colley
Practice and Outcomes of Multidisciplinary Research for Environmental Sustainability 175
Anton J. M. Schoot Uiterkamp and Charles Kek
Robert Gifford
Introduction to Maybeth Shin sPSt Presidential Address
Kay Deaux
Marybeth Shinn
Subject Areas: Psychology [JM]
