Advances In Environmental Psychology Volume 6

Author : Allen H. Lebovits,Andrew Baum,Jerome E. Singer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000089707

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Advances in Environmental Psychology, Volume 6 by Allen H. Lebovits,Andrew Baum,Jerome E. Singer Pdf

Increasingly frequent environmental exposures to hazardous substances present mental health professionals with groups and at times communities of people, faced with high levels of psychological threat. As a result of an increasingly industrial and technological society, a new type of group cohort has emerged – individuals exposed to hazardous substances that present the possibility of immediate and chronic threats to their health and their families’ health. Although the medical sequalae to such exposure had been established, little attention had been paid to the mental health issues or to possible integrated psychophysiological consequences. Originally published in 1986, this book focuses on reactions to exposure to toxic substances as well as some predictors of response in groups faced with increased medical risk subsequent to some of the most common and hazardous toxic exposures found at the time: radiation, toxic waste, asbestos, lead, contaminated water, and toxic chemical fire and leak.

Author : Allen H. Lebovits,Andrew Baum,Jerome E. Singer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000089363

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Advances in Environmental Psychology, Volume 6 by Allen H. Lebovits,Andrew Baum,Jerome E. Singer Pdf

Increasingly frequent environmental exposures to hazardous substances present mental health professionals with groups and at times communities of people, faced with high levels of psychological threat. As a result of an increasingly industrial and technological society, a new type of group cohort has emerged – individuals exposed to hazardous substances that present the possibility of immediate and chronic threats to their health and their families’ health. Although the medical sequalae to such exposure had been established, little attention had been paid to the mental health issues or to possible integrated psychophysiological consequences. Originally published in 1986, this book focuses on reactions to exposure to toxic substances as well as some predictors of response in groups faced with increased medical risk subsequent to some of the most common and hazardous toxic exposures found at the time: radiation, toxic waste, asbestos, lead, contaminated water, and toxic chemical fire and leak.

Author : Andrew Baum,Jerome E. Singer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000089417

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Advances in Environmental Psychology (Volume 5) by Andrew Baum,Jerome E. Singer Pdf

The development of a field or an area of inquiry is often marked by changes in measurement techniques, shifts in analytic emphasis, and disputes over the best ways of doing research. In many areas of psychology, a number of issues have characterized methodological evolution of the discipline, including questions regarding context and reductionism, or laboratory versus field research. For some of the newer areas in psychology, such as environment or health psychology, this is not an issue of either/or. Although there has been some debate about these trade-offs, it is generally regarded by people in this field that some combination of the two approaches is essential. Depending on the question being studied this balance may change. However, the questions asked are less likely to inquire ‘which way is better’ and concentrate on how both may be used. This observation serves to illustrate the fact that different research endeavours have different methodological issues. Originally published in 1985, this volume explores some of the issues characterizing work on health, environment, and behavior.

Author : Allen H Lebovits,Jerome E. Singer,Andrew Baum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367498529

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Advances in Environmental Psychology by Allen H Lebovits,Jerome E. Singer,Andrew Baum Pdf

Increasingly frequent environmental exposures to hazardous substances present mental health professionals with groups and at times communities of people, faced with high levels of psychological threat. As a result of an increasingly industrial and technological society, a new type of group cohort has emerged - individuals exposed to hazardous substances that present the possibility of immediate and chronic threats to their health and their families' health. Although the medical sequalae to such exposure had been established, little attention had been paid to the mental health issues or to possible integrated psychophysiological consequences. Originally published in 1986, this book focuses on reactions to exposure to toxic substances as well as some predictors of response in groups faced with increased medical risk subsequent to some of the most common and hazardous toxic exposures found at the time: radiation, toxic waste, asbestos, lead, contaminated water, and toxic chemical fire and leak.

Author : A. Baum,J. E. Singer,Jerome L. Singer
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134916658

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Advances in Environmental Psychology by A. Baum,J. E. Singer,Jerome L. Singer Pdf

How do people manage their environments? What processes are basic to the interactions between people and their environments? These questions are central to almost all areas of psychology but in a more narrow sense are the heart of environmental psychology. Some environmental studies focus on the antecedents of person-environment interactions, others on the effects of the environment on the individual, and others on outcomes. Still others focus on the processes by which people attempt to manipulate their surroundings. This volume, the second in a series, is concerned with one of these processes - control, actual and perceived, that individuals exercise over their environment.

Author : Andrew Baum,Jerome E. Singer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000089752

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Advances in Environmental Psychology (Volume 5) by Andrew Baum,Jerome E. Singer Pdf

The development of a field or an area of inquiry is often marked by changes in measurement techniques, shifts in analytic emphasis, and disputes over the best ways of doing research. In many areas of psychology, a number of issues have characterized methodological evolution of the discipline, including questions regarding context and reductionism, or laboratory versus field research. For some of the newer areas in psychology, such as environment or health psychology, this is not an issue of either/or. Although there has been some debate about these trade-offs, it is generally regarded by people in this field that some combination of the two approaches is essential. Depending on the question being studied this balance may change. However, the questions asked are less likely to inquire ‘which way is better’ and concentrate on how both may be used. This observation serves to illustrate the fact that different research endeavours have different methodological issues. Originally published in 1985, this volume explores some of the issues characterizing work on health, environment, and behavior.

Author : Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN,Roma Taunton, PhD,Jeanne Benoliel, DNSc
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1988-04-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780826165237

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Annual Review of Nursing Research, Volume 6, 1988 by Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN,Roma Taunton, PhD,Jeanne Benoliel, DNSc Pdf

Now in its second decade of publication, this landmark series draws together and critically reviews all the existing research in specific areas of nursing practice, nursing care delivery, nursing education, and the professional aspects of nursing.

Author : T. Garling,R.G. Golledge
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0080867502

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Behavior and Environment by T. Garling,R.G. Golledge Pdf

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.

Author : Ellen Omohundro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351153751

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Living in a Contaminated World by Ellen Omohundro Pdf

Originally published in 2004. Using innovative methodology which considers both social and biophysical parameters to examine a range of mining and mineral production sites (including the controversial Superfund sites in the USA), this book focuses on how environmental regulators, local residents and other stakeholders work together to define the communities affected by environmental hazards and to assess the associated health impacts. It also questions the social factors which frame community-level decision-making about environmental risks, such as shared history, community identity, control in local decisions, distribution of power among local institutions, and participation in decisions about environmental risks and mitigation. The book argues that a better understanding of such factors would not only permit the development of more informed policies, but would also provide opportunities to improve community involvement in mitigation efforts.

Author : Linda Steg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781119241089

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Environmental Psychology by Linda Steg Pdf

The updated edition of the essential guide to environmental psychology Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition, Environmental Psychology: An Introduction offers an overview of the interplay between humans and their environments. The text examines the influence of the environment on human experiences, behaviour and well-being and explores the factors influencing environmental behaviour, and ways to encourage pro-environmental behaviour. The revised edition is a state-of-the art review of relevant theories and research on each of these topics. With contributions from an international panel of noted experts, the text addresses a wealth of topics including the main research methods in environmental psychology; effects of environmental stress; emotional impacts and meanings of natural environment experience; aesthetic appraisals of architecture; how to measure environmental behaviour; cognitive, emotional and social factors explaining environmental behaviour; effects and acceptability of strategies to promote pro-environmental factors; and much more. This important book: Discusses the environmental factors that threaten and promote human wellbeing Explores a wide range of factors influencing actions that affect environmental conditions Discusses the effects and acceptability of approaches that aim to encourage pro-environmental behavior Presents research results conducted in different regions in the world Contains contributions from noted experts Written for scholars and practitioners in the field, the revised edition of Environmental Psychology offers a comprehensive review of the most recent research available in environmental psychology.

Author : Linda Steg,Agnes E. van den Berg,Judith I. M. de Groot
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781119942191

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Environmental Psychology by Linda Steg,Agnes E. van den Berg,Judith I. M. de Groot Pdf

Environmental Psychology: An Introduction offers a research-based introduction to the psychological relationship between humans and their built and natural environments and discusses how sustainable environments can be created to the benefit of both people and nature Explores the environment's effects on human wellbeing and behaviour, factors influencing environmental behaviour and ways of encouraging pro-environmental action Provides a state-of-the-art overview of recent developments in environmental psychology, with an emphasis on sustainability as a unifying principle for theory, research and interventions While focusing primarily on Europe and North America, also discusses environmental psychology in non-Western and developing countries Responds to a growing interest in the contribution of environmental psychologists to understanding and solving environmental problems and promoting the effects of environmental conditions on health and wellbeing

Author : R.E Kasperson,P.J. Stallen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789400919525

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Communicating Risks to the Public by R.E Kasperson,P.J. Stallen Pdf

Risk communication: the evolution of attempts Risk communication is at once a very new and a very old field of interest. Risk analysis, as Krimsky and Plough (1988:2) point out, dates back at least to the Babylonians in 3200 BC. Cultures have traditionally utilized a host of mecha nisms for anticipating, responding to, and communicating about hazards - as in food avoidance, taboos, stigma of persons and places, myths, migration, etc. Throughout history, trade between places has necessitated labelling of containers to indicate their contents. Seals at sites of the ninth century BC Harappan civilization of South Asia record the owner and/or contents of the containers (Hadden, 1986:3). The Pure Food and Drug Act, the first labelling law with national scope in the United States, was passed in 1906. Common law covering the workplace in a number of countries has traditionally required that employers notify workers about significant dangers that they encounter on the job, an obligation formally extended to chronic hazards in the OSHA's Hazard Communication regulation of 1983 in the United States. In this sense, risk communication is probably the oldest way of risk manage ment. However, it is only until recently that risk communication has attracted the attention of regulators as an explicit alternative to the by now more common and formal approaches of standard setting, insuring etc. (Baram, 1982).

Author : Erwin H. Zube,Gary T. Moore
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 1489953450

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Advances in Environment, Behavior, and Design by Erwin H. Zube,Gary T. Moore Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Environmental psychology
ISBN : OCLC:226661308

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Environmental Psychology by Anonim Pdf

Author : A. Baum,J. E. Singer,Jerome L. Singer
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317770091

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Advances in Environmental Psychology by A. Baum,J. E. Singer,Jerome L. Singer Pdf

First published in 1982. It is not difficult to understand why interest in psychological aspects of energy production, consumption, and conservation has increased during the past decade. The stresses of living or working near power plants, the problems inherent in reducing fuel consumption, and the many applications of behavioral science to these issues have all received attention of late. This volume, the third in a series, is concerned with these issues-the ways in which psychology can contribute to understanding and helping to solve what has generally been termed an ''energy crisis”.