Handbook of Environmental Psychology

ROBERT B. BECHTEL is Professor of Environmental Psychology at theUniversity of Arizona in Tucson and Editor of the journalEnvironment and Behavior.

An international team of leading scholars explores the latest theories, research, and applications critical to environmental psychology

SECTION I: SHARPENING THEORIES. The Increasing Contexts in the Study of Environment Behavior Relations (S. Wapner & J. Demick). The Ethical Imperative (L. Rivlin). Environmental Psychology: From Spatial-Physical Environment to Sustainable Development (M. Bonnes & M. Bonaiuto). Environmental Management: A Perspective from Environmental Psychology (E. Pol). The New Environmental Psychology: The Human Interdependence Paradigm (T. Garling, et al.). The Phenomenological Approach to People-Environment Studies (C. Graumann). Ecological Psychology: Historical Contexts, Current Conception, Prospective Directions (A. Wicker). SECTION II: SHARPENING LINKS TO OTHER DISCIPLINES. Exploring Pathology: Relationships between Clinical and Environmental Psychology (K. Anthony & N. Watkins). Environmental Anthropology (E. Liebow). Environmental Sociology (R. Dunlap). Environmental Psychophysiology (R. Parsons & L. Tassinary). Environmental Psychology and Urban Planning: Where Can the Twain Meet? (A. Churchman). SECTION III: SHARPENING METHODS. Transactionally Oriented Research: Examples and Strategies (C. Werner, et al.). Meta-Analysis (A. Stamps). The Experience Sampling Method: Measuring the Context and Content of Lives (J. Hektner & M. Csikszentmihalyi). The Open Door of GIS (R. Golledge). Structural Equation Modeling (V. Corral-Verdugo). Spatial Structure of Environment and Behavior (J. Peponis & J. Wineman). Behavioral-Based Architectural Programming (R. Hershberger). Postoccupancy Evaluation: Issues and Implementation (C. Zimring). SECTION IV: SHARPENING APPLICATION. Making a Difference: Some Ways Environmental Psychology Has Improved the World (R. Gifford). Bridging the Gap: How Scientists Can Make a Difference (F. Kuo). Women and Environment (K. Franck). Children's Environment (K. Korpela). Design and Dementia (K. Day & M. Calkins). Healthy Residential Environments (R. Lawrence). Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED): Yes, No, Maybe, Unknowable, and All of the Above (R. Taylor). Wayfinding: A Broad View (J. Carpman & M. Grant). Work Environments (J. McCoy). Environmental Psychology in Museums, Zoos, and Other Exhibition Centers (S. Bitgood). Climate, Weather, and Crime (J. Rotton & E. Cohn). Noise Pollution: A Hazard to Physical and Mental Well-Being (A. Bronzaft). The History and Future of Disaster Research (L. Peek & D. Mileti). The Challenge of Increasing Proenvironment Behavior (E. Geller). Emerging Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives on Conservation Behavior (J. Vining & A. Ebreo). Contamination: The Invisible Built Environment (M. Edelstein). Environmental Conflict and Its Resolution (T. d'Estree, et al.). A Methodology of Participatory Planning (L. Horelli). Sustained Participation: A Community Based Approach to Addressing Environmental Problems (E. Wiesenfeld & E. Sanchez). SECTION V: THE FUTURE. Personal Space in a Digital Age (R. Sommer). Toward an Environmental Psychology of the Internet (D. Stokols & M. Montero). On to Mars! (R. Bechtel). Author Index. Subject Index.