Environmental Psychology : Principles and Practices

Contents: Preface. 1. Environmental psychology: an introduction. 2. Human ecosystem in psychology. 3. Person and environment interactions. 4. Therapeutic outline in environment. 5. Psychophysics in environmental psychology. 6. Activities for environmental layout. 7. Perception and acceptability of risk from energy systems. 8. Encouraging energy conservation in environment psychology. 9. Applications for conserving transportation energy. 10. Connections between internal and external worlds of environment. 11. Interpersonal environment: characteristics and consequences of support networks. 12. Applications of the Value Model in nuclear plant. Bibliography. Index.

"A comprehensive and authoritative overview of environmental psychology, covering fundamental processes such as environmental perception and spatial cognition, social-environmental processes such as privacy and crowding, setting-oriented chapters on residences, education, and the workplace, the psychology of nature and natural resourcement management, and social design, and the social science contribution to architectural design." (jacket)