Environmental psychology: Manifold visions, unity of purpose |
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Authors: | Robert Gifford |
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Institution: | aUniversity of Victoria, Department of Psychology, PO Box 3050, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 3P5 |
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Abstract: | An attempt is made to understand and integrate the different perspectives on and approaches to environmental psychology. As a whole, the field is oriented to fundamental science, to practice, and to informing policy. Some approaches focus more on the person, some more on the environment, but all acknowledge its unity of purpose to understand the complex relations between people and the built, natural, and living environments around them. Environmental psychology is developing around the world from its North American and European roots, and this growth is enriching its collective vision. Interest in human transactions with the built environment remains, and concern for the natural world, including the optimizing of human relations with other species and the planet is very strong; these manifold visions are the very definition of environmental psychology. |
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