This book stimulates thinking on the topic of detrimental environmental change and how research psychologists can help to address the problem. In addition to reporting environmentally relevant psychological research, the author identifies the most pressing questions from an environmental point of view. Psychology and Environmental Change:
*focuses on ways in which human behavior contributes to the problem;
*deals with the assessment and change of attitudes and with studies of change of behavior;
*proposes ways in which psychological research can contribute to making technology and its products more environmentally benign; and
*introduces topics such as consumption, risk assessment, cost-benefit and tradeoff analyses, competition, negotiation, and policymaking, and how they relate to the objective of protecting the environment.
- ISBN10 661389740X
- ISBN13 9786613897404
- Publish Date 21 August 2012 (first published 1 January 2002)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 18 September 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Not Avail
- Format eBook
- Pages 329
- Language English