Theoretical Perspectives in Environment--Behavior Research

by Wapner, Seymour; Demick, Jack; Yamamoto, Takiji; Minami, Hiroufmi

• ISBN13: 9780306461927
• ISBN10: 0306461927
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-31
• Publisher: Plenum Pub Corp

Summary

Following upon the Handbook of Japan-United States Environment-Behavior Research, published by Plenum in 1997, leading experts review the interrelationships among theory, problem, and method in environment-behavior research. The chapters focus on the philosophical and theoretical assumptions underlying current research and practice in the area and link those assumptions to specific substantive questions and methodologies

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(6)
Seymour Wapner
Jack Demick
Takiji Yamamoto
Hirofumi Minami
Assumptions, Methods, and Research Problems of the Holistic, Developmental, Systems-Oriented Perspective	7	(14)
Seymour Wapner
Jack Demick
Humans and Nature: Insights from a Transactional View	21	(18)
Corol M. Werner
Irwin Altman
Natural Disaster and Restoration Housings: Role of Physical and Interpersonal Environment in Making a Critical Transition to a New Environment	39	(12)
Masami Kobayashi
Ken Miura
Reflections on the Assumptions and Foundations of Work in Environmental Psychology	51	(10)
Leanne G. Fivlin
Assumptions, Methods, and Research Problems of Ecological Psychology	61	(6)
Robert B. Bechtel
Social-Psychological Approaches in Environment-Behavior Studies: Identity Theories and the Discursive Approach	67	(12)
Marino Bonaiuto
Mirilia Bonnes
Persons, Contexts, and Personal Projects: Assumptive Themes of a Methodological Transactionalism	79	(10)
Brain R. Little
Women and the Environment: Questioned and Unquestioned Assumptions	89	(18)
Arza Churchman
Science, Explanatory Theory, and Environment-Behavior Studies	107	(34)
Amos Rapoport
Linking Built Environments to Everyday Life: Assumptions, Logic, and Specifications	141	(8)
William Michelson
A Hypothetical Model of Environmental Perception: Ambient Vision and Layout of Surfaces in the Environment	149	(8)
Ryuz Ohno
A Way of Seeing People and Place: Phenomenology in Environment-Behavior Research	157	(22)
David Seamon
A Storyteller's Beliefs: Narrative and Existential Research	179	(12)
Herb Childress
Seven Assumptions for an Investigative Environmental Psychology	191	(16)
David Canter
Cross-Cultural Environment-Behaviour Research from a Holistic, Developmental, Systems-Oriented Perspective	207	(10)
Jack Demick
Seymour Wapner
Takiji Yamamoto
Hirofumi Minami
The Geography of Hospitals: A Developing Approach to the Architectural Planning of Hospitals	217	(12)
Yasushi Nagasawa
Sympathetic Methods of Environmental Design and Education Takashi Takashashi	229	(8)
Cultural Assumptions Underlying Concept-formation and Theory Building in Environment-Behavior Research; Urban Planning and Life-Word Design	237	(10)
Hirofumi Minami
Takiji Yamamoto
Residential Crowding in the Context of Inner City Proverty	247	(22)
Gary W. Evans
Susan Saegert
Theory Development in Environmental Psychology: A Prospective View	269	(8)
Daniel Stokols
Space-Frames and Intercultural Studies of Person-Environment Relations	277	(12)
George Rand
Epilogue: Similarities and Differences across Theories of Environment-Behavior Relations	289	(18)
Seymour Wapner
Jack Demick
Takiji Yamamoto
Hirofumi Minami
Name Index	307	(8)
Subject Index	315