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Identity and the Natural Environment: The Psychological Significance of Nature (The MIT Press) - Softcover

 
9780262532068: Identity and the Natural Environment: The Psychological Significance of Nature (The MIT Press)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0262532069 ISBN 13: 9780262532068
Verlag: MIT Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

The often impassioned nature of environmental conflicts can be attributed to the fact that they are bound up with our sense of personal and social identity. Environmental identity—how we orient ourselves to the natural world—leads us to personalize abstract global issues and take action (or not) according to our sense of who we are. We may know about the greenhouse effect—but can we give up our SUV for a more fuel-efficient car? Understanding this psychological connection can lead to more effective pro-environmental policymaking.

Identity and the Natural Environment examines the ways in which our sense of who we are affects our relationship with nature, and vice versa. This book brings together cutting-edge work on the topic of identity and the environment, sampling the variety and energy of this emerging field but also placing it within a descriptive framework. These theory-based, empirical studies locate environmental identity on a continuum of social influence, and the book is divided into three sections reflecting minimal, moderate, or strong social influence. Throughout, the contributors focus on the interplay between social and environmental forces; as one local activist says, "We don't know if we're organizing communities to plant trees, or planting trees to organize communities."

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Susan Clayton is Professor of Psychology at the College of Wooster.

Susan Opotow is Professor in the Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

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Verlag
MIT Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0262532069
ISBN 13 
9780262532068
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
364
Herausgeber
Clayton Susan, Opotow Susan
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