Environmental Problems and Human Behavior

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ISBN: 9780536686336 | 0536686335
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 8/29/2002

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This book examines the behavioral dimensions of global and regional environmental problems such as the greenhouse effect, ozone depletion, deforestation, air pollution, and water pollution. The book asks: What does our knowledge of human behavior tell us about the root causes of environmental problems and about strategies for solving them?

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Preface
The Earth's Environmental Problems and the Role of Human Behavior	p. 1
Environmental Problems as Tragedies of the Commons	p. 21
Religious and Moral Approaches: Changing Values, Beliefs, and Worldviews	p. 33
Educational Interventions: Changing Attitudes and Providing Information	p. 71
Changing the Incentives	p. 95
Community Management of the Commons	p. 125
Combining the Solution Strategies	p. 153
Stone Age Genetic Behavioral Predispositions in the Space Age	p. 175
Human Reactions to Environmental Hazards: Perceptual and Cognitive Processes	p. 205
Choosing the Behaviors to Change and the Points of Intervention	p. 253
Human Interactions with Complex Systems: "Normal" Accidents and Counterintuitive System Behavior	p. 277
Human Interactions with Complex Systems: Chaos, Self-Organization, and the Global Environmental Future	p. 317
References	p. 345
Index	p. 359
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