Theoretical Perspectives in Environment-Behavior Research: Underlying Assumptions, Research Problems, and Methodologies

✍ Scribed by Seymour Wapner, Jack Demick, Takiji Yamamoto (auth.), Seymour Wapner, Jack Demick, Takiji Yamamoto, Hirofumi Minami (eds.)

Publisher: Springer US
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 323
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Following upon the Handbook of Japan-United States Environment-Behavior Research, published by Plenum in 1997, leading experts review the interrelationships among theory, problem, and method in environment-behavior research. The chapters focus on the philosophical and theoretical assumptions underlying current research and practice in the area and link those assumptions to specific substantive questions and methodologies

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Assumptions, Methods, and Research Problems of the Holistic, Developmental, Systems-Oriented Perspective....Pages 7-19
Humans and Nature....Pages 21-37
Natural Disaster and Restoration Housings....Pages 39-49
Reflections on the Assumptions and Foundations of Work in Environmental Psychology....Pages 51-59
Assumptions, Methods, and Research Problems of Ecological Psychology....Pages 61-66
Social-Psychological Approaches in Environment-Behavior Studies....Pages 67-78
Persons, Contexts, and Personal Projects....Pages 79-88
Women and the Environment....Pages 89-106
Science, Explanatory Theory, and Environment-Behavior Studies....Pages 107-140
Linking Built Environments to Everyday Life....Pages 141-148
A Hypothetical Model of Environmental Perception....Pages 149-156
A Way of Seeing People and Place....Pages 157-178
A Storyteller’s Beliefs....Pages 179-190
Seven Assumptions for an Investigative Environmental Psychology....Pages 191-206
Cross-Cultural Environment-Behavior Research from a Holistic, Developmental, Systems-Oriented Perspective....Pages 207-215
The Geography of Hospitals....Pages 217-227
Sympathetic Methods in Environmental Design and Education....Pages 229-236
Cultural Assumptions Underlying Concept-Formation and Theory Building in Environment-Behavior Research....Pages 237-246
Residential Crowding in the Context of Inner City Poverty....Pages 247-267
Theory Development in Environmental Psychology....Pages 269-276
Space-Frames and Intercultural Studies of Person-Environment Relations....Pages 277-288
Epilogue....Pages 289-306
Back Matter....Pages 307-320

✦ Subjects

Community and Environmental Psychology; Environmental Management; Personality and Social Psychology; Architecture, general

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