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Psychological approaches to sustainability : current trends in theory, research and applications / Victor Corral-Verdugo, Cirilo H. Garcia-Cadena and Martha Frias-Armenta, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Environmental science, engineering and technology series.
- Environmental science, engineering and technology series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental psychology.
- Environmentalism--Psychological aspects.
- Environmentalism.
- Human ecology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (487 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An international team of leading scholars and young researchers in environmental psychology offers a relatively new perspective on the origin and solutions of the current environmental crisis. They explain how human nature has played a prominent role in the emergence of ecological problems.
- Contents:
- Intro
- PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABILITY: CURRENT TRENDS IN THEORY, RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- PART I. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION TO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF SUSTAINABILITY
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
- SUSTAINABILITY AND PSYCHOLOGY
- OVERVIEW OF CHAPTERS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 2 GLOBAL WARMING, CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY
- FACTS ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE: IT IS A HAPPENING THING!
- ENVIRONMENTAL NUMBNESS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
- 1. Psychophysiological Barriers
- 2. Temporal Barriers
- 3. Judgemental Barriers
- 4. Geographical and Social Barriers
- 5. Social Dilemma Barriers
- CONSTRUAL LEVELS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTANCE: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO UNDERSTAND CLIMATE CHANGE AS A PSYCHOLOGICALLY DISTANT SITUATION
- PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH FOR TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE
- Risk Perception
- Risk Communication
- Intertemporal and Interpersonal Issues
- Dominant Values
- THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Chapter 3 SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL AND CONTEXTUAL PREDICTORS OF SUSTAINABLE WATER CONSUMPTION
- PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESSES, SUSTAINABILITY AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES
- ENVIRONMENTAL BELIEFS AND WATER CONSERVATION: A MULTINATIONAL STUDY
- METHOD
- Participants
- Measures
- Procedure
- Data Analysis
- RESULTS
- Chapter 4 HOW TO PROMOTE ENERGY SAVINGS AMONG HOUSEHOLDS: THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL APPROACHES
- SELECTING AND ASSESSING ENERGY USE BEHAVIORS.
- FACTORS INFLUENCING HOUSEHOLD ENERGY USE
- Knowledge
- Motivations
- Household Energy Use
- Energy Behaviors
- Cost-benefit Considerations
- Affect
- Moral and Normative Concerns
- Multiple Motivations
- Habits
- Ability to Engage in Energy Conservation
- INTERVENTIONS TO PROMOTE ENERGY CONSERVATION
- Antecedent Strategies
- Consequent Strategies
- Combining Interventions
- Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Interventions
- PART II. ANTECEDENT PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF SUSTAINABILITY
- Chapter 5 ECOLOGICAL WORLDVIEWS
- WORLDVIEWS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
- ECOLOGICAL WORLDVIEWS: THE ROLE OF ANTHROPOCENTRISM AND ECOCENTRISM
- THE NEW ENVIRONMENTAL PARADIGM AS ECOLOGICAL WORLDVIEW
- THE NEW HUMAN INTERDEPENDENCE PARADIGM
- Chapter 6 LEVERAGE FOR SUSTAINABLE CHANGE: MOTIVATIONAL SOURCES BEHIND ECOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR
- ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDE
- MORAL CONSIDERATIONS
- APPRECIATION FOR NATURE
- Chapter 7 THE SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL AFFINITY TOWARDS DIVERSITY: FROM BIODIVERSITY TO SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY
- BIODIVERSITY AND SOCIODIVERSITY
- COMPLEXITY, VARIETY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL PREFERENCES
- AFFINITY TOWARDS DIVERSITY AND PRO-SUSTAINABLE ORIENTATION: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
- Participants and Procedure
- Chapter 8 PROMOTING PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL INTENTIONS. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND AND PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF TRAVEL FEEDBACK PROGRAMS FOR CAR USE REDUCTION
- DETERMINANTS OF BEHAVIORAL INTENTIONS FOR PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR
- A MODEL OF MULTIPLE PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIORS
- FINDINGS FROM THE MODEL ESTIMATION.
- A TRAVEL FEEDBACK PROGRAM PROMOTING ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABLE TRAVEL MODES
- THE TRAVEL FEEDBACK PROGRAM IN WORKPLACE MOBILITY MANAGEMENT
- COMMUNICATIVE PROGRAMS TARGETING AT NEW RESIDENTS
- GENERAL CONCLUSION
- Chapter 9 ALTRUISM AND BEYOND: THE MOTIVATIONAL BASES OF PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR
- Why do People Act in the Public Good?
- EGOISM: PROTECTING MY ENVIRONMENT
- ALTRUISM: PROTECTING YOUR ENVIRONMENT
- COLLECTIVISM: PROTECTING OUR ENVIRONMENT
- PRINCIPLISM: PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT
- VALUE-BELIEF-NORM THEORY
- INCLUSION MODEL
- Chapter 10 EQUITY AND SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLES
- EQUITY, EQUALITY, FAIRNESS AND EQUITABILITY
- INEQUITY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
- EQUITY AS A POTENTIAL OF HUMAN NATURE
- EQUITY AND SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLES
- Chapter 11 TIME PERSPECTIVE AND SUSTAINABLE BEHAVIOR
- TIME PERSPECTIVE
- THE FUTURE TIME PERSPECTIVE
- The Present Time Perspective
- The Past Perspective
- TIME PERSPECTIVE AND SUSTAINABLE BEHAVIOR
- Instruments
- Chapter 12 PROMOTING PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL COMPETENCY
- ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
- PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL COMPETENCY
- STUDY'S GOAL AND HYPOTHESES
- Diagnostic Evaluation
- Impact Evaluation
- Chapter 13 EMOTIONS AND PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR
- THE IMPORTANCE OF EMOTIONS.
- ENVIRONMENTAL EMOTIONS AND PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR
- PART III: CONTEXTUAL DETERMINANTS OF SUSTAINABLE BEHAVIOR
- Chapter 14 CONTEXTUAL INFLUENCES ON SUSTAINABLE BEHAVIOR
- THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR
- SETTING/SITUATIONAL CONTROL
- EVOLUTIONARY RELEVANT CONTEXTUAL CUES
- MAIN HYPOTHESIS
- Overview
- Vignettes
- Research Design
- Scale Inter-item Reliabilities
- Dependent Variables
- Person Factors (Independent Variables)
- Common Factor Settings
- Situational Dimensions
- Other Personal Costs?
- Chapter 15 WHY DO PEOPLE FAIL TO ACT? SITUATIONAL BARRIERS AND CONSTRAINTS ON PRO-ECOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR
- The Positive Fallacy
- The Need for a More Integral Analysis of Behavior
- BARRIERS AND CONSTRAINTS ON ECOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR
- Perceptual Factors
- A SITUATION-BASED APPROACH ON ECOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR
- The "Invisible" Factors
- WHY PEOPLE FAIL TO ACT? - A MODEL PROPOSAL
- HABITS AS UNCONSCIOUS BARRIERS AND CONSTRAINTS
- STUDY 1
- STUDY 2
- Chapter 16 COMMUNITY SUSTAINABILITY: ORIENTATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FROM ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY
- SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: ONE CONCEPT, MANY MEANINGS
- THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMPONENTS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY
- CASE STUDY
- Background
- About the Origin and Objectives of the Programs
- Interpretation
- ABOUT THE DEFINITION OF COMMUNITY NEEDS
- ABOUT THE CENTRAL ACTOR IN DEVELOPMENT
- Interpretation.
- ABOUT THE APPROPRIATION OF THE PROGRAMS BY THE COMMUNITY
- ABOUT THE PLANNER'S COMMITMENT IN THE PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
- ABOUT THE TIES WITH OTHER ACTORS OUTSIDE THE COMMUNITY
- Chapter 17 PLACE ATTACHMENT AND THE SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES
- SOCIAL RESEARCH ON ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES
- NIMBYSM AS A PSYCHO-SPATIAL EXPLANATION FOR LOCAL OPPOSITION
- PUTTING ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES INTO PLACE
- DISRUPTION TO PLACE ATTACHMENT AND THREAT TO PLACE IDENTITY
- Context: Place and Project
- Procedure and Sample
- 1. Place-Related Symbolic Meanings
- 2. Interpreting Change: Representations of the Project and Levels of Trust
- 2a. The Perspective of the Local Opposition Group
- 2b. The Perspective of Local Residents
- 2c. Levels of Trust and Links to Place Attachment
- 3. Evaluation: Emotional Responses, Attitude to the Project and Links with Place Attachment
- 4. Behavioral Responses to the Project and Links with Place Attachment
- Chapter 18 CULTURAL BACKGROUND AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT OF WATER PERCEPTION AND USE
- WATER AS AN OBJECT OF SOCIAL REPRESENTATION
- WATER USE IN CONTRASTING ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXTS
- Sample and Methodology
- Access to Water
- Perception of Water Issues
- WASTING WATER AND ATTRIBUTIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
- CULTURAL IDENTITY AND SOCIAL REPRESENTATION OF WATER
- Sample and Procedure
- The Differentiated Representation of Water
- VALUES, SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS, AND WATER CONSERVATION
- Values and Societal Context
- Relations to Water
- A MODEL OF RELATIONS TO WATER
- Contextual Characteristics and Value Systems.
- Elaborating a Diagnosis, Sharpening Awareness.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61122-535-3
- OCLC:
- 669509270
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