Environmental psychology : an introduction / edited by Linda L.S. Steg, Groningen University, Netherlands, Judith I.M. de Groot, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth. - Second edition. - xxvii, 418 pages : colored illustrations ; 26 cm - BPS textbooks in psychology .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Environmental Psychology: History, Scope, and Methods
pt. I ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON HUMAN BEHAVIOUR AND WELL-BEING
2. Environmental Risk Perception
3. Climate Change as a Unique Environmental Problem
4. Environmental Stress
5. Scenic Beauty: Visual Landscape Assessment and Human Landscape Perception
6. Health Benefits of Nature
7. Restorative Environments
8. Ambivalence Towards Nature and Natural Landscapes
9. Human Dimensions of Wildlife
10. Children and the Natural Environment
11. Appraising and Designing Built Environments that Promote Well-Being and Healthy Behaviour
12. Urban Environmental Quality
13. Environment and Quality of Life
14. Place Attachment
15. How Cues in the Environment Affect Normative Behaviour
pt. II FACTORS INFLUENCING ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOUR
16. Measuring Environmental Behaviour
17. Values and Pro-Environmental Behaviour
18. Social Norms and Pro-Environmental Behaviour Note continued: 19. Emotions and Pro-Environmental Behaviour
20. Symbolic Aspects of Environmental Behaviour
21. Social Dilemmas: Motivational, Individual, and Structural Aspects Influencing Cooperation
22. Theories to Explain Environmental Behaviour
23. The Role of Group Processes in Environmental Issues, Attitudes, and Behaviours
24. Yesterday's Habits Preventing Change for Tomorrow? About the Influence of Automaticity on Environmental Behaviour
25. Environmental Psychology in Latin America
pt. III ENCOURAGING PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOUR
26. Informational Strategies to Promote Pro-Environmental Behaviour: Changing Knowledge, Awareness, and Attitudes
27. Encouraging Pro-Environmental Behaviour with Rewards and Penalties
28. Persuasive Technology to Promote Pro-Environmental Behaviour
29. Acceptability of Environmental Policies
30. Processes of Change
31. Simulating Social Environmental Systems Note continued: 32. Environmental Issues in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
33. Conclusion: Summary, Trends, and Future Perspectives in Environmental Psychology
1. Environmental Psychology: History, Scope, and Methods / Judith I.M. de Groot
1.1. Introduction
1.2. History of the Field
1.2.1. Towards `Architectural' Psychology
1.2.2. Towards a Green Psychology
1.3. Current Scope and Characteristics of the Field
1.3.1. Interactive Approach
1.3.2. Interdisciplinary Collaboration
1.3.3. Problem-Focused Approach
1.3.4. Diversity of Methods
1.4. Main Research Methods in Environmental Psychology
1.4.1. Questionnaire Studies
1.4.2. Laboratory Experiments
1.4.3.Computer Simulation Studies
1.4.4. Field Studies
1.4.5. Case Studies
1.5. Overview of the Book
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
pt. I ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON HUMAN BEHAVIOUR AND WELL-BEING
2. Environmental Risk Perception / Carmen Tanner Note continued: 2.1. Introduction
2.2. What are Environmental Risks?
2.3. Subjective Risk Judgements
2.3.1. Heuristics and Biases in Risk Judgements
2.3.2. Temporal Discounting of Environmental Risks
2.3.3. The Psychometric Paradigm
2.4. Risk, Values, and Morality
2.4.1. Values
2.4.2. Morality and Ethics
2.5. Emotional Reactions to Environmental Risks
2.6. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
3. Climate Change as a Unique Environmental Problem / Lorraine Whitmarsh
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Public Understanding of Climate Change
3.3. Assessing the Risk of Climate Change
3.3.1. Detecting a Problem
3.3.2. Interpretations of Problems
3.3.3. Accepting Responsibility and Taking Action
3.4. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
4. Environmental Stress / Gary W. Evans
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Conceptualizations of Stress
4.3. Effects of Environmental Stress Note continued: 4.3.1. None
4.3.2. Crowding
4.3.3. Poor Housing Quality
4.3.4. Poor Neighbourhood Quality
4.3.5. Traffic Congestion
4.4. Summary
Glossary
Acknowledgements
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
5. Scenic Beauty: Visual Landscape Assessment and Human Landscape Perception / Caroline M. Hagerhall
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Visual Quality Assessment
5.3. Theories Explaining Landscape Preferences as Innate or Learnt
5.4. Measuring and Mapping Scenic Beauty
5.5. Methodological Developments
5.6. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
6. Health Benefits of Nature / Sjerp de Vries
6.1. Introduction
6.2. What is Health and How can it be Measured?
6.3. What is Nature and How can it be Measured?
6.4. Nature and Clinical Health
6.5. Green Space and Public Health
6.6. Mechanisms Linking Nature to Health
6.6.1. Air Quality
6.6.2. Physical Activity
6.6.3. Social Cohesion Note continued: 6.6.4. Stress Reduction
6.7. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
7. Restorative Environments / Agnes E. van den Berg
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Restorative Environments Research
7.2.1. Stress Recovery Theory
7.2.2. Attention Restoration Theory
7.3. The Evolutionary Origins of Restorative Nature Experiences
7.4. Recent Theoretical and Empirical Developments
7.4.1. Perceptual Fluency Account
7.4.2. Connectedness to Nature
7.4.3. Micro-Restorative Experiences and Instorative Effects
7.5. Applications and Implications
7.6. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
8. Ambivalence Towards Nature and Natural Landscapes / Cecil C. Konijnendijk
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Historical Overview
8.3. Emotional Impacts and Meanings of Natural Environment Experience
8.4. Views of Nature and Landscape Preferences
8.5. The Role of Biodiversity Note continued: 8.6. An Existential-Motivational Account
8.7. Practical Implications
8.8. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
9. Human Dimensions of Wildlife / Michael J. Manfredo
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Early Work: Attitudes Towards Wildlife
9.3. The Cognitive Hierarchy
9.4. Wildlife Value Orientations
9.5. Predicting Norms and Attitudes Towards Wildlife
9.6. Emotions Towards Wildlife
9.7. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
10. Children and the Natural Environment / Agnes van den Berg
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Childhood Experiences with Nature
10.3. Nature and Children's Health and Well-Being
10.3.1. Physical Health Benefits
10.3.2. Mental Health Benefits
10.3.3. Cognitive Benefits
10.4. Childhood Nature Experiences and Adult Environmentalism
10.5. Applications and Implications
10.6. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading Note continued: Review Questions
11. Appraising and Designing Built Environments that Promote Well-Being and Healthy Behaviour / Lindsay J. McCunn
11.1. Introduction
11.2. Aesthetic Appraisals of Architecture
11.2.1. Uniformities in the Appraisal of Built Space
11.2.2. Observer Differences
11.2.3. Meaning in Architecture
11.3. Three Building Design Approaches that Promote Well-Being and Healthy Behaviour in Buildings
11.3.1. Social Design
11.3.2. Biophilic Design
11.3.3. Evidence-Based Design
11.4. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
12. Urban Environmental Quality / Giuseppe Carrus
12.1. Introduction
12.2. Urban Settings as a Source of Stress and Discomfort
12.3. Urban Settings as a Source of Well-Being and Restoration
12.4. Residential Satisfaction
A Multicomponent Concept
12.5.A Multidimensional Approach to Urban Environmental Quality
12.6. The Multi-Place Approach
12.7. Summary Note continued: Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
13. Environment and Quality of Life / Linda Steg
13.1. Introduction
13.2. QoL: Objective and Subjective Measures
13.3. QoL: Unidimensional and Multidimensional Measures
13.4. Environment and QoL: Research Overview
13.4.1. Which QoL Aspects are most Important?
13.4.2. To What Extent is QoL Sustained in Certain Situations?
13.4.3. How Does QoL Differ with Varying Environmental Conditions?
13.4.4. How Do Environmental Transformations Influence QoL?
13.5. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
14. Place Attachment / Patrick Devine-Wright
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Theories and Models of Place Attachment
14.2.1.Components of Place Attachment
14.2.2. Types of Place Attachments
14.2.3. Place Attachments Involve an Array of Emotions
14.2.4. Place Attachments as Dynamic and Socially Produced Note continued: 14.3. Applications of Place Attachment
14.4. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
15. How Cues in the Environment Affect Normative Behaviour / Siegwart Lindenberg
15.1. Introduction
15.2. Overarching Goals and their Relative Strengths
15.3. Environmental Cues that Directly Strengthen the Normative Goal
15.4. Environmental Cues that Directly Weaken the Normative Goal
15.5. Indirect Weakening of the Normative Goal by Environmental Cues that Strengthen the Gain Goal
15.6. Indirect Weakening of the Normative Goal by Environmental Cues that Strengthen the Hedonic Goal
15.7. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
pt. II FACTORS INFLUENCING ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOUR
16. Measuring Environmental Behaviour / Birgitta Gatersleben
16.1. Introduction
16.2. What to Measure? Behaviour or Impact
16.2.1. Environmental Behaviour
16.2.2. Environmental Impact Note continued: 16.3. How to Measure Environmental Behaviour?
16.4. Multidimensional or Unidimensional Measures of Environmental Behaviour
16.4.1. Multidimensional Measures of Environmental Behaviour
16.4.2.A Unidimensional Measure of Environmental Behaviour
16.5. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
17. Values and Pro-Environmental Behaviour / John Thøgersen
17.1. Introduction
17.2. Values
17.3. Value Theories
17.3.3. Social Value Orientations
17.3.2. Schwartz's Value Theory
17.3.3. Four Key Values for Pro-Environmental Behaviour
17.4. How Values Affect Environmental Behaviour
17.5. Related Concepts
17.6. Practical Relevance of Value Research
17.7. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
18. Social Norms and Pro-Environmental Behaviour / P. Wesley Schultz
18.1. Introduction
18.2. What is a Social Norm?
18.3. How Influential are Norms on Behaviour? Note continued: 18.4. Why Do People Conform to Norms?
18.5. When Do Norms Influence Behaviour?
18.5.1. Salience
18.5.2. Group Size
18.5.3. Reference Groups
18.5.4. Personal Norms
18.5.5. Norm Conflict and the Importance of Aligned Messages
18.6. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
19. Emotions and Pro-Environmental Behaviour / Leonie Venhoeven
19.1. Introduction
19.2. Emotions as a Motive for Action
19.3. Hedonic and Eudaimonic View on Emotions
19.4. Why Pro-Environmental Behaviour Elicits Positive Emotions: A Closer Look at the Eudaimonic View
19.5. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
20. Symbolic Aspects of Environmental Behaviour / Ellen van der Werff
20.1. Introduction
20.2. Identity
20.2.1. Environmental Self-Identity and Behaviour
20.2.2. Factors Influencing Identity
20.3. Impression Management
20.4. Summary
Glossary Note continued: Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
21. Social Dilemmas: Motivational, Individual, and Structural Aspects Influencing Cooperation / Andreas Nilsson
21.1. Introduction
21.2. Defining Social Dilemmas
21.3. Types of Social Dilemmas
21.3.1. Large-Scale Dilemmas
21.3.2. Resource Dilemmas
21.3.3. Public Good Dilemmas
21.4. Motives in Social Dilemmas
21.4.1. Greed
21.4.2. Efficiency
21.4.3. Fairness
21.5. Factors Promoting Cooperation
21.5.1. Group Size
21.5.2.Communication
21.53. Response Efficacy
21.5.4. Environmental Uncertainty
21.5.5. Social Uncertainty
21.5.6. Norms in Large-Scale Dilemmas
21.6. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
22. Theories to Explain Environmental Behaviour / Annika Nordlund
22.1. Introduction
22.2. Theory of Planned Behaviour
22.3. Protection Motivation Theory
22.4. The Norm Activation Model Note continued: 22.5. The Value-Belief-Norm Theory of Environmentalism
22.6. Goal-Framing Theory
22.7. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
23. The Role of Group Processes in Environmental Issues, Attitudes, and Behaviours / Kelly Fielding
23.1. Introduction
23.2. Why Should Environmental Psychologists be Interested in Group Processes?
23.3. How the Social Identity Approach Explains Environmental Conflict
23.4. Why Social Identity Guides Environmental Attitudes and Behaviours
23.4.1. Group Norms Guide Environmental Attitudes and Behaviours
23.4.2. Group Members Influence Environmental Attitudes and Behaviours
23.4.3. Group Identification Influences Environmental Attitudes and Behaviours
23.5. Why Social Identity can Affect Cooperation on Environmental Issues
23.6. How the Social Identity Approach Explains Environmental Group Formation
23.7. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading Note continued: Review Questions
24. Yesterday's Habits Preventing Change for Tomorrow? About the Influence of Automaticity on Environmental Behaviour / Has Verplanken
24.1. Introduction
24.2. Theoretical Background: How Habits are Acquired
24.3. Narrowing Down Decision-Making: How Habits Affect Information Use
24.4. Measuring Habits: A Challenge for Research
24.5. Breaking Bad Habits, Creating Good Habits: Interventions Changing Routine Behaviour
24.6. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
25. Environmental Psychology in Latin America / Emilio Moyano-Diaz
25.1. Introduction
25.2. Latin American Background
25.3. Past Reviews on Environmental Psychology in Latin America
25.4. Recent Developments in Environmental Psychology in Latin America
25.5. Key Issues for the Development of Research in Latin America
25.5.1. Lack of Collaboration
21.5.2. Few Possibilities to Publish in Spanish or Portuguese Note continued: 25.5.3. Academic Training in Environmental Psychology
25.6. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
pt. III ENCOURAGING PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOUR
26. Informational Strategies to Promote Pro-Environmental Behaviour: Changing Knowledge, Awareness, and Attitudes / Ellen Matthies
26.1. Introduction
26.2. Interventions: From Research to Implementation
26.3. Informational Strategies
26.3.1. Provision of Information
26.3.2. Goal Setting
26.3.3.Commitment
26.3.4. Prompting
26.3.5. Feedback
26.4. Intervention Research: Some General Issues
26.5. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
27. Encouraging Pro-Environmental Behaviour with Rewards and Penalties / E. Scott Geller
27.A Introduction
27.2. Analysis of Consequences
27.3. Natural Versus Extra Consequences
27.4. When is it Appropriate to Apply Extra Consequences? Note continued: 27.5. How Should Extra Consequences be Announced and Delivered?
27.5.1. Negative Versus Positive Consequences
27.5.2. Monetary Versus Non-Monetary Consequences
27.6. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
28. Persuasive Technology to Promote Pro-Environmental Behaviour / Jaap Ham
28.1. Introduction
28.2. Technology and Behaviour
28.3. Persuasive Technology
28.4. Approaches to Applying Persuasive Technology
28.5. Social Influence through Smart Systems
28.5.1. The Role of Social Cues
28.5.2. Reactance
28.6. Providing Persuasive Experiences
28.7. Persuasive Technology as a Tool to Promote Behaviour Change
28.7.1. Ambient Persuasion
28.7.2. Group Interventions
28.8. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
29. Acceptability of Environmental Policies / Cecilia J. Bergstad
29.1. Introduction
29.2. Acceptability as a Social Dilemma Note continued: 29.3. Theoretical Framework to Explain the Acceptability of Policy Measures
29.3.1. Individual Policy Outcomes
29.3.2. Collective Policy Outcomes
29.3.3. Fair Distribution of Policy Outcomes
29.4. Procedural Fairness and Acceptability of Environmental Policies
29.5. How can Public Support Increase Over Time? An Illustration
29.6. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
30. Processes of Change / Maxie Schulte
30.1. Introduction
30.2. Lewin's Theory of Change
30.3. Behavioural Change: A Self Regulation Process Steered by Feedback Loops
30.3.1. Goals as Reference Values in a Feedback Loop
30.3.2. Hierarchical Organization of Goals and Feedback Loops
30.3.3. The Importance of Self Focus
30.4. Behavioural Change: It Takes Time to Overcome Resistance to Change
30.5. The Stage Model of Self-Regulated Behavioural Change
30.6. Implications for Interventions Note continued: 30.7. Empirical Validation of the SSBC
30.8. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
31. Simulating Social Environmental Systems / Nick Gotts
31.1. Introduction
31.2. An Introduction to Social Complexity
31.3. Social Simulation as a Methodology
31.4. Social Simulation of Environmental Behaviour
31.4.1. Using Theory in Simulation Models: Formalizing Processes of Attitude Change
31.4.2. Using Theory and Data in Models: Diffusion of Environmental Innovations
31.5. Integrating Social Simulation into Environmental Modelling
31.5.1. The Lakeland Study
31.5.2.Companion Modelling: A Study of Rice Production and Labour Migrations in North-East Thailand
31.5.3. Integrating Multiple Models of a Socioenvironmental System: Water Use in the Danube Basin
31.6. Key Steps in Building Agent-Based Models
31.6.1. Development of Models
31.6.2. Using Models
31.7. Summary
Glossary Note continued: Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
32. Environmental Issues in Low- and Middle-Income Countries / Silvie Kraemer-Palacios
32.1. Introduction
32.2. Environmental Risk Perception, Environmental Concern, and Climate Change Perception
32.2.1. Environmental Risk Perception
32.2.2. Environmental Concern
32.2.3. Climate Change Perception
32.3. Residential Environment and Well-Being
32.3.1. Slums and Public Housing
32.3.2.Communal Spaces
32.3.3. Rural Communities
32.4. Behaviour and Behaviour Change
32.4.1. Resource Conservation
32.4.2. Sustainable Transportation
32.4.3. Recycling
32.4.4. Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
32.5. Summary
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
33. Conclusion: Summary, Trends, and Future Perspectives in Environmental Psychology / Linda Steg
33.1. Summary and Key Findings
33.1.1. Part I: Environmental Influences on Human Behaviour and Well-Being Note continued: 33.1.2. Part II: Factors Influencing Environmental Behaviour
33.1.3. Part III: Encouraging Pro-Environmental Behaviour
33.2. General Trends and Developments
33.2.1. Positive Interactions Between Humans and Environments
33.2.2. Integrative Approaches
33.2.3. From One Psychology to Multiple Psychologies
33.3. Challenges for Future Research
33.3.1. Further Integration
33.3.2. Further Development of Theories and Methods
33.3.3. Further Engagement
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Review Questions
References

"Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition [of this work] offers an overview of the interplay between humans and their environments. The text examines the influence of the environment on human experiences, behaviour and well-being and explores the factors influencing environmental behaviour, and ways to encourage pro-environmental behaviour. The revised edition is a state-of-the art review of relevant theories and research on each of these topics. With contributions from an international panel of noted experts, the text addresses a wealth of topics including the main research methods in environmental psychology; effects of environmental stress; emotional impacts and meanings of natural environment experience; aesthetic appraisals of architecture; how to measure environmental behaviour; cognitive, emotional and social factors explaining environmental behaviour; effects and acceptability of strategies to promote pro-environmental factors; and much more."--Provided by publisher

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