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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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Wapner, Seymour, 1917-2003
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2000]
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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.