Psychology and Environmental Change - Hardcover

Nickerson, Raymond S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805840966 ISBN 13: 9780805840964

Publisher: Psychology Press, 2002

Synopsis

This book stimulates thinking on the topic of detrimental environmental change and how research psychologists can help to address the problem. In addition to reporting environmentally relevant psychological research, the author identifies the most pressing questions from an environmental point of view. Psychology and Environmental Change:
*focuses on ways in which human behavior contributes to the problem;
*deals with the assessment and change of attitudes and with studies of change of behavior;
*proposes ways in which psychological research can contribute to making technology and its products more environmentally benign; and
*introduces topics such as consumption, risk assessment, cost-benefit and tradeoff analyses, competition, negotiation, and policymaking, and how they relate to the objective of protecting the environment.

About this title

Synopsis:

The problem of environmental change, especially environmental change that results directly from human behavior, is among the more serious problems we face as individuals, as a nation, and as a species. Believing that there are many significant opportunities and challenges for work by applied psychologists in the area of environmental change, the author decided to write this book. He stimulates thinking on the topic of detrimental environmental change, especially on the question of how research psychologists can help to address the problem. In addition to reporting environmentally relevant psychological research, the author identifies the most pressing questions from an environmental point of view.

Psychology and the Natural Environmental Change; focuses on ways in which human behavior contributes to the problem; deals with the assessment and change of attitudes and with studies of change of behavior; proposes on ways in which psychological research might contribute to the objective of making technology and its products more environmentally benign; introduces topics, such as consumption, risk assessment, cost-benefit, tradeoff analyses, competition, cooperation, negotiation, and policymaking; and touches briefly on several other subjects that relate to the objective of protecting the environment.

About this edition

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0805840966
• ISBN 13: 9780805840964
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 330