Handbook of Japan-United States Environment-Behavior Research

Toward a Transactional Approach
Herausgegeben:Demick, Jack; Takahashi, T.; Wapner, Seymour; Yamamoto, C. Takiji

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume is an outgrowth of research on the relations between human beings and their environments, which has developed internationally. This development is evident in environment-behavior research studies conducted in countries other than the United States. See Stokols and Altman (1987) for examples of such work in Australia, Japan, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United King dom, the former Soviet Union, and Latin and North America. The international development of this research area is also evident in the establishment of profes sional organizations in different countries such as the Environment-Behavior De sign Research Association (EDRA) in the United States, the Man-Environment Research Association (MERA) in Japan, the International Association for People-En vironment Studies (lAPS) in Great Britain, and the People and Physical Environ ment Research Association (PAPER) in Australia. This volume focuses on environment-behavior research within Japan and the United States as well as cross-cultural studies involving both countries. As we note in detail in Chapter 1, the conference on which the work presented herein is based was preceded by three Japan-United States conferences on environment-behavior research, the first of which took place in Tokyo in 1980. As currently conceived, the present volume stands alone as a compendium of a Significant proportion of cross-cultural research on environment-behavior relations in Japan and the United States that has been developing over the last 15 years. As such, we envision the volume as a basic interdisciplinary reference for anthropolgists, archi tects, psychologists, SOCiologists, urban planners, and environmental geographers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer US / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4899-0288-7
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
• Seitenzahl: 476
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 888g
• ISBN-13: 9781489902887
• ISBN-10: 1489902880
• Artikelnr.: 41330352

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction.- I. Physical Aspects of the Person.- 2. Visual Perception in Elderly Persons with Dementia.- 3. Dwelling Design Guidelines for Accessibility in the Aging Society: A New Era in Japan?.- 4. Urban Housing and the Elderly.- 5. Quality of Life in Japanese Older Adults.- 6. A Study on a Relocation of a Nursing Home for Blind Older Adults.- II. Psychological aspects of the Person.- 7. Body and Self Experience: Japan versus USA.- 8. Cross-Cultural Survey on Color Preferences in Three Asian Cities: Comparisons among Tokyo, Taipei, and Tianjin.- 9. Mode of Being in Places: A Case Study in Urban Public Space.- III. Sociocultural Aspects of the Person.- 10. Urban Renewal and the Elderly: An Ethnographic Approach.- 11. Integrating Environmental Factors into Multidimensional Analysis.- IV Physical Aspects of the Environment.- 12. Experiencing Japanese Gardens: Sensory Information and Behavior.- 13. Preference for Trees on Urban Riverfronts.- 14. Landscape Values: Congruence and Conflict in Desert Riparian Areas.- 15. Environmental Transition and Natural Disaster: Restoration Housing for the Mt. Unzen Volcanic Eruption.- 16. Environmental Psychology and Biosphere 2.- V Interpersonal Aspects of the Environment.- 17. Rethinking Stereotypes of Family Housing in Japan and the USA.- VI. Sociocultural Aspects of the Environment.- 18. Sociopsychological Environments of Japanese Schools as Perceived by School Students.- 19. "Big School, Small School" Revisited: A Case Study of a Large-Scale Comprehensive High School Based on the Campus Plan.- 20. Sojourn in a New Culture: Japanese Students in American Universities and American Students in Japanese Universities.- 21. Public Space as Art and Commodity: The Spanish American Plaza.- 22. Urbanization and Quality of Life inAsia.- VII. Future Theoretical and Empirical Directions for Environment-Behavior Research.- 23. Directions of Environmental Psychology in the Twenty-First Century.- 24. Transactional Perspective, Design, and "Architectural Planning Research" in Japan.- 25. Some Arguments for a Comparative Developmental Environmental Psychology with a Long-Term View of History and Cultural Psychology.- 26. Prospects for Environmental Psychology in the Third Millennium.- 27. What Is the Situation?: A Comment on the Fourth Japan-USA Seminar on Environment-Behavior Research.- 28. Theory in Environment-Behavior Studies: Transcending Times, Settings, and Groups.- 29. Environment and Behavior Studies: A Discipline? Not a Discipline? Becoming a Discipline?.- Appendix: List of Presentations of Previous Japan-U. S. Seminars on Environment-Behavior Research.- Name Index.