- "Environmental psychology is a branch of psychology that explores the relationship between humans and the external world."
It examines the relationship between people and the built or natural environment.
Urban Psychology: Study of the psychological effects of urban environments on human behavior and well-being.
Environmental Perception: Investigation of how individuals interpret and respond to natural and built environments.
Place Attachment: Examination of the emotional bond between individuals and their physical surroundings, including natural and built environments.
Environmental Stress: Analysis of how environmental factors create stress and how individuals react to these stressors.
Sustainability: Exploration of the interactions between human behavior and the environment in terms of resource conservation and ecological preservation.
Behavioral Change: Study of how social and environmental factors influence behavior change with a goal of promoting sustainable behavior.
Biophilic Design: Analysis of the beneficial effects of natural environments and elements within the built environment, with a focus on promoting well-being.
Transdisciplinary Approaches: Application of various disciplines to solve complex environmental issues, including social, cultural, economic, and psychological factors.
Environmental Justice: Investigation of the disproportionate distribution of environmental benefits and burdens among different groups of people and the psychological effects of this inequity.
Health and Well-being: Study of how the environment affects physical and mental health and how design and planning can promote well-being.
- "It examines the way in which the natural environment and our built environments shape us as individuals."
- "Environmental psychology emphasizes how humans change the environment and how the environment changes humans' experiences and behaviors."
- "The field defines the term environment broadly, encompassing natural environments, social settings, built environments, learning environments, and informational environments."
- "Environmental psychology was not fully recognized as its own field until the late 1960s."
- "The field has been committed to the development of a discipline that is both value oriented and problem oriented, prioritizing research aimed at solving complex environmental problems in the pursuit of individual well-being within a larger society."
- "When solving problems involving human-environment interactions, whether global or local, one must have a model of human nature that predicts the environmental conditions under which humans will respond well."
- "It explores such dissimilar issues as common property resource management, wayfinding in complex settings, the effect of environmental stress on human performance, the characteristics of restorative environments, human information processing, and the promotion of durable conservation behavior."
- "Lately, alongside the increased focus on climate change in society and the social sciences and the re-emergence of limits-to-growth concerns, there has been an increased focus on environmental sustainability issues within the field."
- "Geographers, economists, landscape architects, policy-makers, sociologists, anthropologists, educators, and product developers all have discovered and participated in this field."
- "Although 'environmental psychology' is arguably the best-known and most comprehensive description of the field, it is also known as human factors science, cognitive ergonomics, ecological psychology, ecopsychology, environment–behavior studies, and person–environment studies."
- "Closely related fields include architectural psychology, socio-architecture, behavioral geography, environmental sociology, social ecology, and environmental design research."
- "The field defines the term environment broadly, encompassing natural environments, social settings, built environments, learning environments, and informational environments."
- "The field has been committed to the development of a discipline that is both value oriented and problem oriented, prioritizing research aimed at solving complex environmental problems in the pursuit of individual well-being within a larger society."
- "The field develops such a model of human nature while retaining a broad and inherently multidisciplinary focus."
- "It explores such dissimilar issues as common property resource management, wayfinding in complex settings, the effect of environmental stress on human performance, the characteristics of restorative environments, human information processing, and the promotion of durable conservation behavior."
- "Lately, alongside the increased focus on climate change in society and the social sciences and the re-emergence of limits-to-growth concerns, there has been an increased focus on environmental sustainability issues within the field."
- "Geographers, economists, landscape architects, policy-makers, sociologists, anthropologists, educators, and product developers all have discovered and participated in this field."
- "Although 'environmental psychology' is arguably the best-known and most comprehensive description of the field, it is also known as human factors science, cognitive ergonomics, ecological psychology, ecopsychology, environment–behavior studies, and person–environment studies."
- "Closely related fields include architectural psychology, socio-architecture, behavioral geography, environmental sociology, social ecology, and environmental design research."