This book has been written as a text for advanced undergraduate students and graduate students in the burgeoning field of study that has come to be called environment and behavior. It is appropriate for courses in environmental psychology, social ecology, ecological psychology, and community psychology when the community is conceptualized from an ecological viewpoint. In addition, the book may be used in design courses oriented toward an appreciation of the interaction between architecture and human behavior. The book presents a thorough explication of a perspective or viewpoint in approaching the study of environment and behavior, which has tended to be underemphasized in past work in this area. The dynamic perspective focuses on the active role people play in dealing with environmental challenges. Its investigative interest is in the processes that mediate the effects of environment on behavior, especially the positive and adaptive ways in which people cope with the environment. The accent is on the creative, complex, yet subtle character of these environmental processes.

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The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Charles J. Holahan

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Book Title: Environment and Behavior
Book Subtitle: A Dynamic Perspective
Authors: Charles J. Holahan
Series Title: The Plenum Social Ecology Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2430-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1978
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-2432-4Published: 05 December 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-2430-0Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 188
Topics: Community and Environmental Psychology

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Emergence of a New Perspective

Environmental Coping

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Social Accommodation

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Environmental Schematization

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Synthesis

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