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The Behavioural environment : essays in reflection, application, and re-evaluation / edited by Frederick W. Boal and David N. Livingstone.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kirk, W. (William).
- Kirk, W.
- Geographical perception.
- Human geography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (358 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1989.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Placing human action and perception at the centre of the subject, this book considers the effects of mankind on the environment, drawing particularly from William Kirk's work on the behavioural environment model. Reviewing Kirk's original model in light of recent ideological debate and extensive new evidence, this collection of essays from leading names in the field shows that a behavioural approach is essential in understanding human geography and man's relationship with the ecological environment.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Contributors; Preface; Foreword by; The behavioural environment: worlds of meaning in a world of facts; Historical geography and the concept of the behavioural environment; The concept of 'the behavioural environment', and its origins, reconsidered; Environment, behaviour, and thought; Humankind-environment: musings on the role of the hyphen; People, prejudice, and place; Small-town images: evocation, function, and manipulation; Personal Construct Theory, residential decision-making, and the behavioural environment
- Outrage and righteous indignation: ideology and imagery of suburbiaDivided perception in a united city: the case of Jerusalem; Thoughts, words, and 'creative locational acts'; People and places in the behavioural environment; Mirrors, masks, and diverse milieux; A curiously unbalanced condition of the powers of the mind: realism and the ecology of environmental experience; Forms of life, history, and mind: an idealist proposal for integrating perception and behaviour in human geography; The behavioural environment: how, what for, and whose?
- Notes:
- In memory of William Kirk.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-98787-0
- 1-138-88128-7
- 1-134-98788-9
- 1-280-02064-4
- 0-203-16858-5
- 9786610020645
- 9780203168585
- OCLC:
- 54446825
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