Theoretical perspectives in environment-behavior research : underlying assumptions, research problems, and methodologies /
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. The chapters focus on the philosophical and theoretical assumptions underly...
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New York :
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,
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Table of Contents:
- Assumption, methods, and research problems of the holistic, developmental, systems-oriented perspective / Seymour Wapner and Jack Demick
- Humans and nature : insights from a transactional view / Carol M. Werner and Irwin Altman
- Natural disaster and restoration housings : role of physical and interpersonal environment in making a critical transition to a new environment / Masami Kobayashi and Ken Miura
- Reflections on the assumptions and foundations of work in environmental psychology / Leanne G. Rivlin
- Asumptions, methods, and research problems of ecological psychology / Robert B. Bechtel
- Social-psychological approaches in environment-behavior studies : identity theories and the discursive approach / Marino Bonaiuto and Mirilia Bonnes
- Persons, contexts, and personal projects : assumptive themes of a methodological transactionalism / Brian R. Little
- Women and the environment : questioned and unquestioned assumptions / Arza Churchman
- Science, explanatory theory, and environment-behavior studies / Amos Rapoport
- Linking built environments to everyday life : assumptions, logic, and specifications / William Michelson
- A hypothetical model of environmental perception : ambient vision and layout of surfaces in the environment / Ryuzo Ohno
- A way of seeing people and place : phenomenology in environment-behavior research / David Seamon
- A storyteller's beliefs : narrative and existential research / Herb Childress
- Seven assumptions for an investigative environmental psychology / David Canter
- Cross-cultural environment-behavior research from a holistic, developmental, systems-oriented perspective / Jack Demick, Seymour Wapner, Takiji Yamamoto, and Hirofumi Minami
- The geography of hospitals : a developing approach to the architectural planning of hospitals / Yasushi Nagasawa
- Sympathetic methods in environmental design and education / Takashi Takahashi
- Cultural assumptions underlying concept-formation and theory building in environment-behavior research : urban planning and life-world design / Hirofumi Minami and Takiji Yamamoto
- Residential crowding in the context of inner city poverty / Gary W. Evans and Susan Saegert
- Theory development in environmental psychology : a prospective view / Daniel Stokols
- Space-frames and intercultural studies of person-environment relations / George Rand
- Epilogue : similarities and differences across theories of environment-behavior relations / Seymour Wapner, Jack Demick, Takiji Yamamoto, and Hirofumi Minami.