Environmental Problem Solving
Psychosocial Barriers to Adaptive Change
Authors: Miller, Alan
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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.
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Introduction
Pages 1-10
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Psychological Processes
Pages 11-44
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Sociopolitical Dynamics
Pages 45-81
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Conventional Problem Solving
Pages 82-123
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Pluralistic Competition
Pages 124-155
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Environmental Problem Solving
- Book Subtitle
- Psychosocial Barriers to Adaptive Change
- Authors
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- Alan Miller
- Series Title
- Springer Series on Environmental Management
- Copyright
- 1999
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4612-1440-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4612-1440-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-387-98499-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-0-387-40297-0
- Series ISSN
- 0172-6161
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 239
- Topics
