Bechtel R.B. Churchman A. Handbook of Environmental Psychology

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002. – 736 p.In this book, The Lexus and The Olive Tree, Thomas Friedman (1999) claims that the world we live in is only 10 years old, referring to the globalization that is ostensibly taking over our cultures. This handbook serves as an example of how global and local approaches can coexist and contribute to each other. We (the environmental psychologists) are cognizant of the nested nature of contexts: The immediate environment is imbedded in an ever-widening one, with each level interdependent. The authors in this handbook come from different countries and different disciplines, representing different theoretical and methodological approaches. And yet, there are many common aspects shared by all. The structure of the handbook represents our pluralistic approach to the field—not one but many voices. Our approach in this handbook is to see Environmental Psychology, not merely as a specialized area of psychology, but as an interdisciplinary effort with links to other disciplines, some stronger and some weaker, as the chapters illustrate. The issue that has dogged Environmental Psychology from its beginning is the appropriate balance between theoretical and applied work. This handbook presents both but we have not tried to represent each view equally on this or any other issue. However, because the purpose of this handbook is to show how things are being done at the forefront, we have selected authors and topics that best represent the field as it exists at the time of this printing. We have tried to be representative of the literature as it exists, rather than take a stance on how it should be. We have also left it up to each author to reflect on the future. Ten years from now, we will undoubtedly have another handbook that will carry the field into its next phase.Sharpening Theories
The Increasing Contexts of Context in the Study of Environment Behavior Relations
The Ethical Imperative
Environmental Psychology: From Spatial-Physical Environment to Sustainable Development
A Perspective from Environmental Psychology
The New Environmental Psychology: The Human Interdependence Paradigm
The Phenomenological Approach to People-Environment Studies
Ecological Psychology: Historical Contexts, Current Conception, Prospective Directions
Sharpening Links to Other Disciplines
Exploring Pathology: Relationships between Clinical and Environmental Psychology
Environmental Anthropology
Environmental Sociology
Environmental Psychophysiology
Environmental Psychology and Urban Planning: Where Can the Twain Meet?
Sharpening Methods
The Experience Sampling Method: Measuring the Context and Content of Lives
Postoccupancy Evaluation: Issues and Implementation
Sharpening Application
Making a Difference: Some Ways Environmental Psychology Has Improved the World
Bridging the Gap: How Scientists Can Make a Difference
Women and Environment
Children's Environment
Design and Dementia
Healthy Residential Environments
Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED): Yes, No, Maybe, Unknowable, and All of the Above
Wayfinding: A Broad View
Work Environments
Environmental Psychology in Museums, Zoos, and Other Exhibition Centers
Climate, Weather, and Crime
Noise Pollution: A Hazard to Physical and Mental Well-Being
The History and Future of Disaster Research
The Challenge of Increasing Proenvironment Behavior
Emerging Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives on Conservation Behavior
Contamination: The Invisible Built Environment
Environmental Conflict and Its Resolution
A Methodology of Participatory Planning
Sustained Participation: A Community Based Approach to Addressing Environmental Problems
The Future
Personal Space in a Digital Age
Toward an Environmental Psychology of the Internet
On to Mars!
Author Index
Subject Index