Overview
- Examines the implications of place attachment disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Considers the value of both old and new people-place relationships in contributing to a post-pandemic recovery plan
- Proposes an integrative framework that can be adopted by researchers, healthcare practitioners, and policy makers to promote pro-environmental behavior, place attachment, and post-pandemic flourishing
- Explores implications for theory, research, policy, and practice
- A psychological approach to place in the context of a global pandemic
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Psychology (BRIEFSPSYCHOL)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Place Attachment During a Pandemic
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Adjusting to Place Attachment Disruption During and After a Pandemic
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Place Attachment
- Urban Recovery
- Place Meanings
- Coping and Resilience Strategies
- Pro-environmental Behavior
- Environmental Psychology
- Health Psychology
- Built Environment
- Population Health
- Public Health
- People-Place Relationships
- Place Attachment Disruptions
- COVID-19 Pandemic
- Pro-Environmental Behavior
- Post-Pandemic Flourishing
About this book
This book rekindles the well-known connection between people and place in the context of a global pandemic. The chapters are divided into two sections. In the first section, “Place Attachment During a Pandemic,” we review the nature of the COVID-19 pandemic and the extent of its impact on place attachment and human-environment interactions. We examine how restrictions in mobility and environmental changes can have a significant psychological burden on people who are dealing with the effect of place attachment disruption that arises during a pandemic. In the second section, “Adjusting to Place Attachment Disruption During and After a Pandemic,” we focus on adaptive processes and responses that could enable people to adjust positively to place attachment disruption. We conclude the book by discussing the potential for pro-environmental behavior to promote place attachment and flourishing in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic by introducing an integrative framework ofplace flourishing and exploring its implications for theory, research, policy, and practice.
Reviews
PLACE AND POST-PANDEMIC FLOURISHING
“This is a scientific challenge: a solid psychological theory, attachment system, is adopted to understand a new phenomenon, namely the disruption of people-place relations during the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic. The book deploys its heuristic validity by bridging health, environmental, and positive psychology in order to orient local and national relevant post-pandemic policy-making, on how to cope with present-day place attachment disruption in order to enter the next recovering phase towards the place flourishing target.”
Marino Bonaiuto
Director, Interuniversity Reserch Centre in Environmental Psychology, Sapienza Universita di Roma
"The pandemic has made clear that we need a deeper consideration of, and investment, in place and in community well-being. Reflection and dialogue on this critical topic are needed, and this volume helpfully moves that discussion forward."
Tyler J. VanderWeele
John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard University
“This book, Place and post-pandemic flourishing, is a delightful surprise. Its authors are esteemed, and the scholarship is first-rate. That is not surprising at all. But the book is so readable! I resonated with the idea that we can be attached emotionally and psychologically to places--like our homes, schools, workplaces, and places of worship--and the COVID-19 pandemic has strained or ruptured many of those bonds of attachment. Those ideas opened new ways of thinking about how we can personally and as communities, societies, and a world respond to promote adjustment and fortify resilience. This will provide many new stimulating ideas that are applicable to your life and work.”
Everett L. Worthington, Jr.
Commonwealth Professor Emeritus, Virginia Commonwealth University
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Victor Counted is Director of COSORI Australia and Fellow of the School of Psychology at Western Sydney University.
Richard G. Cowden is a social-personality psychologist and Psychology Research Associate at Harvard University.
Haywantee Ramkissoon is a Research Professor of Tourism Marketing at the University of Derby, UK, where she leads the visitor economy research group.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Place and Post-Pandemic Flourishing
Book Subtitle: Disruption, Adjustment, and Healthy Behaviors
Authors: Victor Counted, Richard G. Cowden, Haywantee Ramkissoon
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82580-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82579-9Published: 29 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82580-5Published: 28 October 2021
Series ISSN: 2192-8363
Series E-ISSN: 2192-8371
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 111
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Community and Environmental Psychology, Health Psychology, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Health Policy, Religion and Psychology