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Handbook of Environmental Psychology and Quality of Life Research / edited by Ghozlane Fleury-Bahi, Enric Pol, Oscar Navarro.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Fleury-Bahi, Ghozlane, Editor.
Pol, Enric, Editor.
Navarro, Oscar, Editor.
Series:
International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life, 2468-7227
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Quality of life.
Cognitive psychology.
Sustainable development.
Environmental health.
Clinical health psychology.
Quality of Life Research.
Cognitive Psychology.
Sustainable Development.
Environmental Health.
Health Psychology.
Local Subjects:
Quality of Life Research.
Cognitive Psychology.
Sustainable Development.
Environmental Health.
Health Psychology.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (XIII, 574 p. 29 illus., 9 illus. in color.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2017.
Place of Publication:
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Summary:
This Handbook presents a broad overview of the current research carried out in environmental psychology which puts into perspective quality of life and relationships with living spaces, and shows how this original analytical framework can be used to understand different environmental and societal issues. Adopting an original approach, this Handbook focuses on the links with other specialties in psychology, especially social and health psychology, together with other disciplines such as geography, architecture, sociology, anthropology, urbanism and engineering. Faced with the problems of society which involve the quality of life of individuals and communities, it is fundamental to consider the relationships an individual has with his different living spaces. This issue of the links between quality of life and environment is becoming increasingly significant with, at a local level, problems resulting from different types of annoyances, such as pollution and noise, while, at a global level, there is the central question of climate change with its harmful consequences for humans and the planet. How can the impact on well-being of environmental nuisances and threats (for example, natural risks, pollution, and noise) be reduced? How can the quality of life within daily living spaces (home, cities, work environments) be improved? Why is it important to understand the psychological issues of our relationship with the global environment (climatic warming, ecological behaviours)? This Handbook is intended not only for students of various disciplines (geography, architecture, psychology, town planning, etc.) but also for social decision-makers and players who will find in it both theoretical and methodological perspectives, so that psychological and environmental dimensions can be better taken into account in their working practices. .
Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction: Environmental Psychology and Quality of Life; Ghozlane Fleury-Bahi, Enric Pol and Oscar Navarro
Part I. People-Environment Relations and Quality of Life
Environmental Quality and Well-Being
Chapter 2. Quality of Life Quality of life and Sustainability: The End of Quality at Any Price; Enric Pol, Angela Castrechini and Giuseppe Carrus
Chapter 3. Some cues for a Positive Environmental Psychology Agenda ; Sergi Valera and Tomeu Vidal
Chapter 4. Linking People-Environment Research and Design. What is Missing?; Carole Després and Denise Piché
Chapter 5. Place Attachment, Sense of Belonging and the Micro-Politics of Place Satisfaction; Andrés Di Masso, John Dixon and Bernardo Hernández
Chapter 6. Self, Nature and Well-Being: Sense of Connectedness and Environmental Identity for Quality of Life; Pablo Olivos and Susan Clayton
Chapter 7. Restorative Environments and Health; Silvia Collado, Henk Staats, José Antonio Corraliza and Terry Hartig
Chapter 8. Green Exercise, Health and Well-Being; Ana Loureiro and Susana Veloso
Chapter 9. Sustainable Behavior and Quality of Life; Cesar Tapia-Fonllem, Victor Corral-Verdugo and Blanca Fraijo-Sing
Chapter 10.Self-Determined, Enduring, Ecologically Sustainable Ways of Life: Attitude as a Measure of Individuals’ Intrinsic Motivation; Florian G. Kaizer, Alexandra Kibbe and Oliver Arnold
Chapter 11. Commitment and Pro-Environmental Behaviors: Favoring Positive Human-Environment Interactions to Improve Quality of Life; Christophe Demarque and Fabien Girandola
Chapter 12. Pro-Environmentalism, Identity Dynamics and Environmental Quality of Life; Marie-Line Félonneau and Elsa Causse
Chapter 13. Can engagement in Environmentally-Friendly Behavior Increase Well-Being?; Leonie Venhoeven, Linda Steg and Jan Willem Bolderdijk
Part II. Well-Being and Daily Environments
Chapter 14. Urban design and Quality of Life; Ombretta Romice, Kevin Thwaites, Sergio Porta, Mark Greaves, Gordon Barbour and Paola Pasino
Chapter 15. The City as an Environment for Urban Experiences and the Learning of Cultural Practices; Pablo Páramo
Chapter 16. Adjustment to Geographical Space and Psychological Well-being; Thierry Ramadier
Chapter 17. Residential Satisfaction and Quality of Life; Juan Ignacio Aragonés, María Amérigo and Raquel Pérez López
Chapter 18. Spatial Inequalities, Geographically-Based Discrimination and Environmental Quality of Life; Ghozlane Fleury-Bahi and André Ndobo
Chapter 19. Children in Cities: The Delicate Issue of Well-Being and Quality of Urban Life; Sandrine Depeau
Chapter 20. Everyday Environments and Quality of Life: Positive School and Neighborhood Environments Influence the Health and Well-Being of Adolescents; Taciano L. Milfont and Simon J. Denny
Chapter 21. The Effect of Workplace Design on Quality of Life at Work; Jacqueline C. Vischer and Mariam Wifi
Chapter 22. Comfort at Work: An Indicator of Quality of Life at Work; Liliane Rioux
Chapter 23. Quality of the Hospital Experience: Impact of the Physical Environment; Ann Sloan Devlin and Cláudia Campos Andrade
Chapter 24. Healthy Residential Environments for the Elderly; Ferdinando Fornara and Sara Manca
Part III. Quality of Life and Environmental Threats
Chapter 25. Environmental Stress; Birgitta Gatersleben and Isabelle Griffin
Chapter 26. Living in An “At Risk” Environment: The Example of “Costal Risks”; Elisabeth Michel-Guillou and Catherine Meur-Ferec
Chapter 27. Social Inequality and Environmental Risk Perception; Oscar Navarro
Chapter 28. Living in Industrial Areas: Social Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation; Maria Luisa Lima and Sibila Marques
Chapter 29. Emergent Risks and Quality of Life: Towards New Dimensions of Well-Being?; Dorothée Marchand, Karine Weiss and Bouchra Zouhri
Chapter 30. Energy Issues: Psychological Aspects; Rafaella Lenoir Improta, Patrick Devine-Wright, José Q. Pinheiro and Petra Schweizer-Ries
Chapter 31. Global Challenges for Environmental Psychology: The Place of Labor and Production; David Uzzell, Nora Räthzel, Ricardo García-Mira and Adina Dumitru.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
ISBN:
3-319-31416-5

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