Human Behavior and Environmental Sustainability
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Description for Human Behavior and Environmental Sustainability
Paperback. Environmental sustainability is a necessity for all countries worldwide, and it is strongly related to human quality of life. Editor(s): Vlek, Charles; Steg, Linda. Series: Journal of Social Issues (JOSI). Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 364.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Series
Journal of Social Issues (JOSI)
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405175487
SKU
V9781405175487
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Ref
99-50
About Vlek
Charles Vlek is professor emeritus of environmental psychology and decision research at the University of Groningen (NL). He is one of the founders of the European Research Conference on Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making (SPUDM). He co-organized the Dutch Societal Discussion on Energy Policy (1982/3) and participated in the Dutch Commission for Environmental Impacts Assessment (1986-'96). He has been ... Read more
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