The Physical Environment and Behavior: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to the Literature

ISBN-13: 9781461592297 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 484 str.

Joachim F. Wohlwill; Gerald D. Weisman

Opis

The field of "Environment-and-Behavior" This bibliography is aimed at the researcher and advanced student working in the field of environmental psychology, as it has come to be designated over the past decade. A more appropriate term might be "environment-behavior studies," to suggest the important characteristic of this field as one that transcends the province of the psychologist, and brings together workers, as well as problems, methods, and concepts from a great diversity of disciplines and professional fields. Among these we may include geography and sociology, architecture, landscape architecture and planning, forestry, natural resource management and leisure and recreation research -- to name only the most important of the diverse fields from which material for this bibliography has been drawn. This is in fact one of the primary reasons for our belief in the value of such a volume. The literature in the environment-behavior field is scattered through the most diverse sources, including not only the major periodical and monographic literature in each of the above-mentioned disciplines and professions (and others as well), but also a variety of more specialized publications of varying degrees of accessibility. Thus it seemed to us helpful to the researcher, teacher and student in this area to bring this far-flung literature together in a single volume, that might be used as a guide to the field. We aimed at a comprehensive treatment, including both basic and applied aspects, and relations of behavior both to the man-made or artificial and to the natural environment.

Spis treści

I: General Materials.- 1. General Reference and Bibliographies.- a. Bibliographies, Literature Reviews, and Reference Books.- b. Texts, Readers and Major Monographs.- c. Conference Proceedings.- 2. Historical, Theoretical And Methodological Works.- a. History, Theory and Selective Reviews.- b. Methodology.- II: Psychological Processes in the Individual’s Response to the Environment.- 3. Environmental Comprehension and Evaluation.- a. Environmental Perception.- b. Environmental Cognition.- c. Environmental Meaning: Subjective Dimensions of Environmental Stimuli.- d. Environmental Aesthetics: Affective, Evaluative and Preferential Responses to Environments.- 4. Environmental Stimulation and Stress.- a. Environmental Stimulation.- b. Environmental Stress.- c. Specific Environmental Dimensions and Sources of Stress.- d. Noise.- e. Isolation and Extreme or Unusual Environment s.- 5. Socio-Spatial Processes.- a. General Works.- b. Crowding.- c. Privacy.- d. Territoriality and Personalization of Territory.- e. Personal Space.- 6. Behavioral Ecology.- III: Applied Areas And Special Issues.- 7. The Natural Environment And Behavior.- a. Gardens, Parks, Playgrounds and General Response to Greenery and Vegetation.- b. Perception and Assessment of Landscape and Scenery.- c. Outdoor Recreation Behavior in Natural Settings.- d. Natural Hazards.- 8. Attitudinal and Behavioral Aspects of Environmental Problems.- a. Environmental Attitudes.- b. The Role of Behavior, and Behavior Change, in Environmental Problems.- 9. Behavioral Aspects of Transportation, Travel and Traffic.- 10. Institutional Settings.- a. Educational Environments.- b. Medical Care and Mental Health Environments.- c. Correctional Environments.- 11. The Housing Environment.- a. Housing Effects.- b. Student Housing.- c. Housing for the Elderly.- d. Residential Satisfaction.- 12. The Urban Environment.- a. The Urban Environment.- b. Behavior in Urban Spaces.- c. The Neighborhood and Social Relationships.- d. Urban Perception and Cognition.- 13. Interior Environments.- a. Office Environments.- b. Other Interior Settings.- IV: Cognate Areas.- 14. Behavioral Demography.- 15. The Environmental Social Sciences.- a. General Environmental Social Science.- b. Anthropology.- c. Behavioral Geography.- d. Environmental Sociology.- e. Environmental Political Science.- f. Environmental Economics.- 16. Special Areas of Application.- a. Environmental Design.- b. Social Impact Assessment.- Author Index.