Human Behavior and Environmental Sustainability

Rick H Hoyle editor Linda Steg editor Charles Vlek editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:14th Aug '07

Should be back in stock very soon

Human Behavior and Environmental Sustainability cover

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.

ISBN: 9781405175487

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm

Weight: 327g

240 pages