Environmental Problem Solving

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Alan Miller

   Pages 1-10

3. Psychological Processes

   • Alan Miller

   Pages 11-44

4. Sociopolitical Dynamics

   • Alan Miller

   Pages 45-81

5. Conventional Problem Solving

   • Alan Miller

   Pages 82-123

6. Pluralistic Competition

   • Alan Miller

   Pages 124-155

7. Single Visions

   • Alan Miller

   Pages 156-187

8. Toward Adaptive Problem Solving

   • Alan Miller

   Pages 188-216

9. Prognosis

   • Alan Miller

   Pages 217-230

10. Back Matter

    Pages 231-239

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Human influences create both environmental problems and barriers to effective policy aimed at addressing those problems. In effect, environmental managers manage people as much as they manage the environment. Therefore, they must gain an understanding of the psychological and sociopolitical dimensions of environmental problems that they are attempting to resolve. In Environmental Problem Solving, Alan Miller reappraises conventional analyses of environmental problems using lessons from the psychosocial disciplines. He combines the disciplines of ecology, political sociology and psychology to produce a more adaptive approach to problem-solving that is specifically geared toward the environmetal field. Numerous case studies demonstrate the practical application of theory in a way that is useful to technical and scientific professionals as well as to policy makers and planners. Alan Miller is Professor of Psychology at the University of New Brunswick.

• amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
• Case Studies
• competition
• ecology
• environment
• field
• influence
• policy
• political sociology
• problem solving
• psychology
• sociology
• STR
• understanding
• university
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• Department of Psychology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada

  Alan Miller

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