Conservation Psychology: Understanding and Promoting Human Care for Nature

by Gene Myers and Susan Clayton

Book Overview

This textbook introduces the reader to the new and emerging field of Conservation Psychology, which explores connections between the study of human behavior and the achievement of conservation goals. People are often cast as villains in the story of environmental degradation, seen primarily as a threat to healthy ecosystems and an obstacle to conservation. But humans are inseparable from natural ecosystems. Understanding how people think about, experience,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405176784
• ISBN13: 9781405176781
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 9.7"