Theoretical Perspectives in Environment-Behavior Research

Underlying Assumptions, Research Problems, and Methodologies

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

Following upon the Handbook of Japan-United States Environment-Behavior Research, published by Plenum in 1997, leading experts review the interrelationships among theory, problem, and method in environment-behavior research.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-10-17
Mått:178 x 254 x 19 mm
Vikt:641 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Upplaga:2000
Förlag:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN:9781461371298

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Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction.- 2. Assumptions, Methods, and Research Problems of the Holistic, Developmental, Systems-Oriented Perspective.- 3. Humans and Nature: Insights from a Transactional View.- 4. Natural Disaster and Restoration Housings: Role of Physical and Interpersonal Environment in Making a Critical Transition to a New Environment.- 5. Reflections on the Assumptions and Foundations of Work in Environmental Psychology.- 6. Assumptions, Methods, and Research Problems of Ecological Psychology.- 7. Social-Psychological Approaches in Environment-Behavior Studies: Identity Theories and the Discursive Approach.- 8. Persons, Contexts, and Personal Projects: Assumptive Themes of a Methodological Transactionalism.- 9. Women and the Environment: Questioned and Unquestioned Assumptions.- 10. Science, Explanatory Theory, and Environment-Behavior Studies.- 11 Linking Built Environments to Everyday Life: Assumptions, Logic, and Specifications.- 12. A Hypothetical Model of Environmental Perception: Ambient Vision and Layout of Surfaces in the Environment.- 13. A Way of Seeing People and Place: Phenomenology in Environment-Behavior Research.- 14. A Storyteller’s Beliefs: Narrative and Existential Research.- 15. Seven Assumptions for an Investigative Environmental Psychology.- 16. Cross-Cultural Environment-Behavior Research from a Holistic, Developmental, Systems-Oriented Perspective.- 17. The Geography of Hospitals: A Developing Approach to the Architectural Planning of Hospitals.- 18. Sympathetic Methods in Environmental Design and Education.- 19. Cultural Assumptions Underlying Concept-Formation and Theory Building in Environment-Behavior Research: Urban Planning and Life-World Design.- 20. Residential Crowding in the Context of Inner City Poverty.- 21. Theory Development inEnvironmental Psychology: A Prospective View.- 22. Space-Frames and Intercultural Studies of Person-Environment Relations.- 23. Epilogue: Similarities and Differences across Theories of Environment-Behavior Relations.- Name Index.