Behavior and Environment: Psychological and Geographical Approaches

✍ Scribed by Tommy Gärling and Reginald G. Golledge (Eds.)

Publisher: Elsevier, Academic Press
Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Leaves: 499
Series: Advances in Psychology 96
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Active researchers in the areas of geography and psychology have contributed to this book. Both fields are capable of increasing our scientific knowledge of how human behavior is interfaced with the molar physical environment. Such knowledge is essential for the solution of many of today's most urgent environmental problems. Failure to constrain use of scarce resources, pollution due to human activities, creation of technological hazards and deteriorating urban quality due to vandalism and crime are all well known examples. The influence of psychology in geographical research has long been appreciated but it is only recently that psychologists have recognized they have something to learn from geography. In identifying the importance of two-way interdisciplinary communication, a psychologist and a geographer have been invited to each write a chapter in this book on a designated topic so that close comparisons can be drawn as to how the two disciplines approach the same difficulties. Since the disciplines are to some extent complementary, it is hoped that this close collaboration will have synergistic effects on the attempts of both to find solutions to environmental problems through an increased understanding of the many behavior-environment interfaces.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Editors
Page ii

Edited by
Page iii

Copyright page
Page iv

Contributors
Pages vii-viii

Preface
Pages ix-x
Tommy Gärling, Reginald G. Golledge

Chapter 1 Understanding Behavior and Environment: A Joint Challenge to Psychology and Geography Original Research Article
Pages 1-15
Tommy Gärling, Reginald G. Golledge

Chapter 2 Geographical Perspectives on Spatial Cognition Original Research Article
Pages 16-46
Reginald G. Golledge

Chapter 3 Psychological Perspectives on Spatial Cognition Thomas Original Research Article
Pages 47-82
Thomas P. McDonald, James W. Pellegrino

Chapter 4 Emotions in Person-Environment-Behavior Episodes Original Research Article
Pages 83-116
Douglas Amedeo

Chapter 5 Environmental Appraisal, Human Needs, and a Sustainable Future Original Research Article
Pages 117-140
Rachel Kaplan

Chapter 6 Cognitive Processes and Cartographic Maps Original Research Article
Pages 141-169
Robert Lloyd

Chapter 7 The Structure of Cognitive Maps: Representations and Processes Original Research Article
Pages 170-192
Stephen C. Hirtle, P. Bryan Heidorn

Chapter 8 Hazard Perception and Geography Original Research Article
Pages 193-222
Roger E. Kasperson, Kirstin Dow

Chapter 9 Perceptions of Environmental Hazards: Psychological Perspectives Original Research Article
Pages 223-248
Paul Slovic

Chapter 10 The Geography of Everyday Life Original Research Article
Pages 249-269
Susan Hanson, Perry Hanson

Chapter 11 Psychological Explanations of Participation in Everyday Activities Original Research Article
Pages 270-297
Tommy Gärling, Jörgen Garvill

Chapter 12 Search and Choice in Urban Housing Markets Original Research Article
Pages 298-316
W.A.V. Clark

Chapter 13 The Choice of a Home Seen From the Inside: Psychological Contributions to the Study of Decision Making in Housing Markets Original Research Article
Pages 317-341
Henry Montgomery

Chapter 14 Retail Environments and Spatial Shopping Behavior Original Research Article
Pages 342-377
Harry Timmermans

Chapter 15 Consumers in Retail Environments Original Research Article
Pages 378-399
Paul M.W. Hackett, Gordon R. Foxall, W. Fred Van Raaij

Chapter 16 Human-Nature Relationships: Leisure Environments and Natural Settings Original Research Article
Pages 400-426
John J. Pigram

Chapter 17 Psychological Foundations of Nature Experience Original Research Article
Pages 427-457
Terry Hartig, Gary W. Evans

Author Index
Pages 458-473

Subject Index
Pages 474-483

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