Winston’s Churchill’s well-known wartime remark succinctly captures the fact that the connection between people and the places in which they dwell is a two-way relationship. It is a point that is surely understood, at least implicitly, by interiors theorists, researchers, and practitioners. But what does the fi eld of psychology have to say about the two halves of this reciprocal bond? Here we ...

According to Saunders, conservation psychology (CP) seeks to “conduct psychological research that is directly oriented toward the goal of environmental sustainability.” Such research, writes Saunders, will be centered around “two broad outcome areas: a) motivating people to act in more environmentally-friendly ways, and b) encouraging people to care about the natural world and their role in it....

1 Psychology Clinical Neuroscience Center, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA 2 Department of Psychology, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA 3 Department of Psychiatry, The University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, USA 4 The Mind Research Network and Lovelace Biomedical and Environmental Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM, USA 5 Psychiatry Re...

School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TT, UK School of Biological Sciences, Bristol University, Bristol BS8 1TH, UK Royal Veterinary College, Hawkshead Lane, Hertfordshire AL9 7TA, UK Department of Psychology, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York,...

Promoting pro-environmental behaviour amongst urban dwellers is one of today's greatest sustainability challenges. The aim of this study is to test whether an information intervention, designed based on theories from environmental psychology and behavioural economics, can be effective in promoting recycling of food waste in an urban area. To this end we developed and evaluated an information le...

Observable actions in response to decreases in environmental quality are identified for passive users, those who will never use a damaged resource directly. The welfare implication of changes in the probability and value of time devoted to viewing news of the Valdez oil spill is estimated using a household production approach and assuming weak substitutability between news consumption and envir...

The popular press often portrays environmental health risks as scarier than most scientists would portray them. The press tends to present these risks from the general public's perspective. This paper describes a widely used approach to understanding how the views of scientists and the public differ and gives an example of how the gap between these views can be bridged. Because the media's pres...

The research objective of the project and article “European Ecological Network Natura 2000 – opportunities and threats” Natura 2000 sites constitute a form of environmental protection, several legal problems are likely to result. Most controversially, certain sites will be subject to two regimes of protection: as national parks and as Natura 2000 sites. This dualism of the legal regulation make...

It is the "developmental" component of developmental psychopathology that distinguishes this discipline from abnormal psychology, psychiatry, and even clinical child psychology. At the same time, the focus on individual patterns of adaptation and maladaptation distinguishes this field from the larger discipline of developmental psychology. In this essay a developmental perspective is presented,...