Faculty of Architecture, Design & Planning
Environment, Behaviour & Society Research Group
Recommended Books in Environment, Behaviour & Society
The following books and chapters are recommended for all new and incoming PhD, MPhil or Hons students,
post-docs and visiting scholars working in the Environment, Behaviour and Society (EBS) area. They have
been selected by staff and especially by students who found the following most useful in getting oriented to
the EBS research literature.
General Textbooks, Handbooks and Readers
Altman, I. (1975). The Environment and Social Behavior: Privacy, Personal Space, Territory, Crowding.
Monterey, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Altman, I., and others (Eds.) (1976-1990). Human Behaviour and Environment: Advances in Theory and
Research (various subtitles). New York: Plenum. ** Bechtel, R.B., & Churchman, A. (Eds.) (2002).
Handbook of Environmental Psychology (rev ed.). New York: Wiley.
Bell, P.A., Greene, T.C., Fisher, J.D., & Baum, A. (2001). Environmental Psychology (5th ed.). Sydney:
Thomson.
** Gifford, R. (2007). Environmental Psychology: Principles and Practice (4th ed.). Colville, WA: Optimal
Books.
Moore, G.T., Hunt, J., & Trevillion, L. (Eds.) (2000). Environment-Behaviour Research on the Pacific Rim:
Proceedings of the 13th People and the Physical Environment Research Conference. Sydney:
University of Sydney, Faculty of Architecture.
http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/nwfa/research/publications.html
** Moore, G.T., Marans, R.W., & Zube, E.H. (Eds.) (1987-1997). Advances in Environment, Behavior and
Design (4 vols.). New York and London: Plenum.
Stokols, D., & Altman, I. (Eds.) (1987). Handbook of Environmental Psychology (2 vols.). New York:
Wiley.
Theory
Moore, G.T. (1997). Toward environment-behavior theories of the middle range: I. Their structure and
relation to normative design theories. In G.T. Moore & R.W. Marans (Eds.), Advances in
Environment, Behavior and Design, Vol. 4 (pp. 1-40). New York and London: Plenum.
Moore, G.T. (1997). Toward environment-behaviour theories of the middle range: II. The analysis and
evaluation of environment-behaviour theories. In T. Takahashi & Y. Nagasawa (Eds.), EnvironmentBehavior Studies for the 21st Century: Proceedings of the MERA97 International Conference (pp. 6974). Tokyo: University of Tokyo and Man-Environment Relations Association.
Research Methods
** Groat, L., & Wang, D. (2002). Architectural Research Methods. New York: Wiley.
Hoyle, R.H., Harris, M.J., & Judd, C.M. (2002). Research Methods in Social Relations (7th ed.)
Fort Worth, TX: Wadsworth.
** Leedy, P.D. (1997). Practical Research: Planning and Design (6th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Prentice-Hall/Merrill.
Lincoln, Y.S., & Guba, E.G. (1985). Naturalistic Inquiry. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Zeisel, J. (2006). Inquiry by Design: Tools for Environment-Behavior Research (rev ed). Cambridge,
England: Cambridge University Press.
See also the separate list of research methods books under the heading Recommended EBS Research
Methods Books.
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Journals and Conference Proceedings
In addition to the above, you are advised to refer regularly to the major journals in the field, to consider
becoming a member of one or more of the major international associations and to obtain their conference
proceedings:
Journals:
Environment and Behavior
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0163.html
Journal of Environmental Psychology
http://www.academicpress.com/jep
International Research Associations and Proceedings:
Environment-Behavior Research Association (China – EBRAC) & Proceedings
Environmental Design Research Association (North America – EDRA) & Proceedings
http://home.telepath.com/~edra
Environmental Psychology in the United Kingdom (EPUK) & Proceedings
http://www.envpsy.org.uk/index.php
International Association for People-Environment Studies (Europe – IAPS) & Proceedings
http://www.bwk.tue.nl/iaps
Man-Environment Research Association (Japan – MERA) & Proceedings
People and the Physical Environment (Australasia – PaPER) & Proceedings
http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/nwfa/research/publications.html
Population and Environmental Psychology, Division 34 of the American Psychological Association
(USA – APA) & Proceedings
http://web.uvic.ca/%7Eapadiv34/contents/listserv.html
Useful Websites
Environment-behaviour Listservs:
CYE-L : Children, Youth and Environments
Subscribe to: cye-l@listserv.gc.cuny.edu
EnvBeh-L : Environment, Behaviour and Design
Subscribe to: listproc@duke.poly.edu
[in body of message type: subscribe envbeh-l firstname surname]
EnvPsy : Environmental Psychology (UK)
Subscribe to: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk, or envpsy@jiscmail.ac.uk
[in body of message type: join envpsy firstname surname]
EnvPsy : Environmental Psychology (USA)
Subscribe to: div34@lists.apa.org
IAPS : People-Environment Studies (Europe)
Subscribe to: IAPS@jiscmail.ac.uk
Professor Dan Stokols of the University of California, Irvine, has a useful website, with links to other
EBS-related websites at http://eee.uci.edu/03w/50690/Links.html.
Recent Books, Papers and Conference Publications
Lastly, we have produced a list of recent books, papers and conference publications from the Environment,
Behaviour and Society (EBS) Research Group. You may wish to peruse the list to see the types of research
currently being undertaken at Sydney, available at
http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/nwfa/research/area_ebs.html.
We invite your suggestions for other useful resources for beginning EBS research students, post-docs or
visiting scholars.
Professor Gary Moore
Chair of Environment-Behaviour Studies
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