Psychology and environmental change

This book stimulates thinking on the topic of detrimental environmental change and how research psychologists can help to address the problem. This book focuses on ways in which human behavior contributes to the problem; deals with the assessment and change of attitudes and with studies of change of behavior; proposes ways in which psychological research can contribute to making technology and its products more environmentally benign; and introduces topics such as consumption, risk assessment, cost-benefit and tradeoff analyses, competition, negotiation, and policymaking, and how they relate to the objective of protecting the environment