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Why Aren't We Saving the Planet?

A Psychologist's Perspective

Why Aren't We Saving the Planet?
  • By Geoffrey Beattie.

Published May 2010

Global warming. Many of us believe that it is somebody else’s problem, that it will affect other people and that other people will come up with the solution. This is not true. "Global" warming is a global problem: it will affect every single one of us and will be only be stopped by a huge shift in…
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The Psychology of Environmental Problems

Psychology for Sustainability

The Psychology of Environmental Problems
  • By Susan M. Koger, and Deborah DuNann Winter.

Published March 2010

This compelling and insightful textbook demonstrates how eight major approaches in psychology – social, psychoanalytical, behavioral, cognitive, physiological, health, developmental, and holistic – can be applied to create a more sustainable society. After outlining current environmental…
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The Influence of Culture on Human Resource Management Processes and Practices

The Influence of Culture on Human Resource Management Processes and Practices
  • Edited by Dianna Stone, and Eugene Stone-Romero.

Published December 2007

It is clear that organizations are becoming more culturally diverse, and a better understanding of multiculturism and its impact on organizations is needed. This book, with contributions from expert academics, is designed to motivate both the further development of models concerned with the…
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Applied Measurement

Industrial Psychology in Human Resources Management

Applied Measurement
  • Edited by Deborah L. Whetzel, and George R. Wheaton.

Published February 2007

An updated version of Deborah Whetzel and George Wheaton's earlier volume, this text is a well-organized sourcebook for fundamental practices in industrial psychology and human resources management. Applied Measurement describes the process of job analysis and test development with practical…
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Handbook of School Violence and School Safety

From Research to Practice

Handbook of School Violence and School Safety
  • Edited by Shane Jimerson, Michael J. Furlong, Amanda Nickerson and Matthew J. Mayer.

Published March 2006

Periodic, high-profile incidents of school violence both in the United States and around the world have understandably resulted in public demand for increased school safety. This demand has, in turn, led to school safety policies and practices that have raced ahead of empirical research. This…
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Image Politics

The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism

Image Politics
  • By Kevin Michael DeLuca.

Published November 2005

This exceptional volume examines “image events” as a rhetorical tactic utilized by environmental activists. Author Kevin Michael DeLuca analyzes widely televised environmentalist actions in depth to illustrate how the image event fulfills fundamental rhetorical functions in constructing…
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The Psychology of Environmental Problems

Psychology for Sustainability

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Published September 2003

A revision of Winter's Ecological Psychology (1996), this book applies psychological theory and research to environmental problems. After outlining current environmental difficulties, the authors demonstrate how 6 major approaches in psychology (social psychological, psychoanalytic, behavioral,…
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The Psychology of Environmental Problems

Psychology for Sustainability

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Published September 2003

A revision of Winter's Ecological Psychology (1996), this book applies psychological theory and research to environmental problems. After outlining current environmental difficulties, the authors demonstrate how 6 major approaches in psychology (social psychological, psychoanalytic, behavioral,…
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Constructing Place

Mind and the Matter of Place-Making

Constructing Place
  • Edited by Sarah Menin.

Published September 2003

This book is a cutting edge study examining the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society in which an intervention (be it architecture, landscape design or a piece of art) is made. The legacy of the Modernist view of nature and the environment is…
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Psychology and Environmental Change

Psychology and Environmental Change
  • By Raymond S. Nickerson.

Published July 2002

This book stimulates thinking on the topic of detrimental environmental change and how research psychologists can help to address the problem. In addition to reporting environmentally relevant psychological research, the author identifies the most pressing questions from an environmental point of…
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