Theoretical Perspectives in Environment-Behavior Research : Underlying Assumptions, Research Problems, and Methodologies (engelsk)

1. Introduction -- 2. Assumptions, Methods, and Research Problems of the Holistic, Developmental, Systems-Oriented Perspective -- 3. Humans and Nature: Insights from a Transactional View -- 4. Natural Disaster and Restoration Housings: Role of Physical and Interpersonal Environment in Making a Critical Transition to a New Environment -- 5. Reflections on the Assumptions and Foundations of Work in Environmental Psychology -- 6. Assumptions, Methods, and Research Problems of Ecological Psychology -- 7. Social-Psychological Approaches in Environment-Behavior Studies: Identity Theories and the Discursive Approach -- 8. Persons, Contexts, and Personal Projects: Assumptive Themes of a Methodological Transactionalism -- 9. Women and the Environment: Questioned and Unquestioned Assumptions -- 10. Science, Explanatory Theory, and Environment-Behavior Studies -- 11 Linking Built Environments to Everyday Life: Assumptions, Logic, and Specifications -- 12. A Hypothetical Model of Environmental Perception: Ambient Vision and Layout of Surfaces in the Environment -- 13. A Way of Seeing People and Place: Phenomenology in Environment-Behavior Research -- 14. A Storyteller’s Beliefs: Narrative and Existential Research -- 15. Seven Assumptions for an Investigative Environmental Psychology -- 16. Cross-Cultural Environment-Behavior Research from a Holistic, Developmental, Systems-Oriented Perspective -- 17. The Geography of Hospitals: A Developing Approach to the Architectural Planning of Hospitals -- 18. Sympathetic Methods in Environmental Design and Education -- 19. Cultural Assumptions Underlying Concept-Formation and Theory Building in Environment-Behavior Research: Urban Planning and Life-World Design -- 20. Residential Crowding in the Context of Inner City Poverty -- 21. Theory Development in Environmental Psychology: A Prospective View -- 22. Space-Frames and Intercultural Studies of Person-Environment Relations -- 23. Epilogue: Similarities and Differences across Theories of Environment-Behavior Relations -- Name Index