PSYCHOLOGY APPROACHES TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
COURSE RESOURCES
Jennifer S. Robohm, Ph.D.
BOOKS, BOOK CHAPTERS, JOURNAL ARTICLES, AND PUBLICATIONS
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JOURNALS
Ecopsychology
http://www.liebertpub.com/products/product.aspx?pid=300
Environment and Behavior
http://eab.sagepub.com/
Human Ecology Review
http://www.humanecologyreview.org/
Journal of Environmental Psychology
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622872/description#description
Population and Environment
http://www.springerlink.com/content/105738/
NEWSLETTERS
Bulletin of People-Environment Studies
http://www.iaps-association.org/
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Population and Environmental Psychology Bulletin
http://www.apa34.org/
IAAP Newsletter
www.psy.gn/iaap/IAAP_newsletter.htm
WEBSITES
Alliance for Climate Education
http://acespace.org
Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change Conference
http://www.beccconference.org
Climate Change Education.org
http://www.climatechangeeducation.org/university_mateirals/psychology.html
Climate Leadership Initiative
http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/climate-leadership-initiative
Earth Circles
http://www.earth-circles.org
Ecopsychology UK
www.ecopsychology.org.uk
Ecotherapy
www.ecotherapyheals.com
Fostering Sustainable Behavior: CBSM Site
http://www.cbsm.com
Garrison Institute
http://www.garrisoninstitute.org
Green Blocks Program (Missoula)
http://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/index.aspx?NID=977
GreenHeart Education
http://www.greenhearted.org/index.html
Grist
www.grist.com
The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
http://www.iisd.ca
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OPOWER
http://www.opower.com
Precourt Energy Efficiency Center
http://peec.stanford.edu/behavior/
Psychologists for Social Responsibility
http://www.psysr.org
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Program on Climate Change, Sustainability, and Psychology
Toolkit: http://www.psysr-climatetoolkit.org/
Teaching Psychology for Sustainability: www.teachgreenpsych.com/
Transition Culture
http://transitionculture.org
ORGANIZATIONS
American Psychological Association
http://www.apa.org/
Australian Psychological Society, Psychology and the Environment Interest Group
http://www.groups.psychology.org.au/peig/
Division 34, Population and Environmental Psychology
http://www.apa34.org/
International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP)
http://www.iaapsy.org/
Division 4, Environmental Psychology
http://www.psy.gu.se/iaap/envpsych.htm
Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA)
http://www.edra.org/
International Association for People-Environment Studies (IAPS)
www.iaps-association.org
The Society for Human Ecology (SHE)
http://www.societyforhumanecology.org/
Conservation Psychology
www.conservationpsychology.org
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Society for Population and Environmental Psychology
www.apa34.org
Society for Conservation Biology’s Social Science Working Group
www.conbio.org/workinggroups/SSWG/
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
http://www.aceee.org
LISTSERVS
Fostering Sustainable Behavior Listserv
fsb@cbsmlist.com
VIDEOS
Raising Awareness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4
Global Warming 101
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJAbATJCugs&feature=related
Column A or Column B?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zORv8wwiadQ
National Geographic: Could Just One Degree Change the World?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_ZQRIsn2pA (1 degree)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-0_gDXqYeQ&feature=relmfu (2 degrees)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rdLu7wiZOE&feature=fvwrel (3 degrees)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skFrR3g4BRQ&feature=relmfu (4 degrees)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nRf2RTqANg&feature=related (5 degrees)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8qmaAMK4cM&feature=relmfu (6 degrees)
The Myth of Apathy
http://www.earthsayers.com/special_collection/The_Myth_of_Apathy_or_Why_People_Dont_Seem_to
_Care_About_Sustainability/15/18551
Radical Solutionaries
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5HEV96dIuY
The Brain and Global Warming (Daniel Gilbert)
http://vimeo.com/10324258
Evolution of Empathy and the Ways That It's Shaped Our Society
http://wimp.com/empathyevolution
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George Marshall
http://climate denial.org
Part one: Risk and Beliefs
Risk – and why we don’t feel threatened by climate change
Belief – why we can’t just accept the information and need to believe in it
Attention – how avoiding talking about climate change is like avoiding talking about human rights
atrocities
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOsl5-AUTv4
Part two: Communication
Stories – the way we mediate information about climate change. The problem with polar bears and why
human rights organisations are more interested in ice cream than climate change.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da1zW3dG_ko
Part three: Defenses
Distancing – the strategies we adopt to keep the information at arm’s length
Compartmentalising – how we can accept climate change and continue polluting behaviour
Positive Framing – how we seek to turn climate change into a personal advantage
Ethical Offsets – how we adopt the easiest behaviours as proof of our virtue
Cynicism- the commercial appropriation of climate change images
What happens next? - surprisingly - what happens next
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb5Zu_YGxjw&feature=related
The Most IMPORTANT Video You Will Ever See (8 parts)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY&feature=BF&list=SP6A1FD147A45EF50D&index=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb3JI8F9LQQ&feature=BF&list=SP6A1FD147A45EF50D&index=2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFyOw9IgtjY&feature=BF&list=SP6A1FD147A45EF50D&index=3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQd-VGYX3-E&feature=BF&list=SP6A1FD147A45EF50D&index=4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHuwgxrTKPo&feature=BF&list=SP6A1FD147A45EF50D&index=5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3y7UlHdhAU&feature=BF&list=SP6A1FD147A45EF50D&index=6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyseLQVpJEI&feature=BF&list=SP6A1FD147A45EF50D&index=7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoiiVnQadwE&feature=BF&list=SP6A1FD147A45EF50D&index=8