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International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life Ghozlane Fleury-Bahi Enric Pol Editors Oscar Navarro Handbook of Environmental Psychology and Quality of Life Research International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life ChairoftheEditorialBoard GracielaTonon,UniversidadNacionaldeLomasdeZamoraand UniversidaddePalermo,Argentina EditorialBoard AlexMichalos,UniversityofNorthernBritishColumbia,Canada RhondaPhillips,PurdueUniversity,USA DonRahtz,CollegeofWilliam&Mary,USA DaveWebb,UniversityofWesternAustralia,Australia WolfgangGlatzer,GoetheUniversity,Germany DongJinLee,YonseiUniversity,Korea LauraCamfield,UniversityofEastAnglia,UK AimsandScope The International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life Research offer extensive bibliographic resources. They present literature reviews of the many sub- disciplines and areas of study within the growing field of quality of life research. Handbooks in the series focus on capturing and reviewing the quality of life research literature in specific life domains, on specific popu- lations,orinrelationtospecificdisciplinesorsectorsofindustry.Inaddition, the Handbooks cover measures of quality of life and well-being, providing annotatedbibliographiesofwell-establishedmeasures,methods,andscales. Moreinformationaboutthisseriesathttp://www.springer.com/series/8365 GhozlaneFleury-Bahi • EnricPol Oscar Navarro Editors Handbook of Environmental Psychology and Quality of Life Research 123 Editors GhozlaneFleury-Bahi EnricPol FacultyofPsychology DepartmentofSocialPsychology UniversityofNantes UniversityofBarcelona Nantes,France Barcelona,Spain OscarNavarro FacultyofPsychology UniversityofNantes Nantes,France ISSN2468-7227 ISSN2468-7235 (electronic) InternationalHandbooksofQuality-of-Life ISBN978-3-319-31414-3 ISBN978-3-319-31416-7 (eBook) DOI10.1007/978-3-319-31416-7 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2016949049 ©SpringerInternationalPublishingSwitzerland2017 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewhole orpartofthematerialisconcerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation,reprinting,reuseof illustrations,recitation,broadcasting,reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherphysicalway, andtransmissionorinformationstorageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware, orbysimilarordissimilarmethodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. 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Printedonacid-freepaper ThisSpringerimprintispublishedbySpringerNature TheregisteredcompanyisSpringerInternationalPublishingAGSwitzerland Preface Although what we now call environmental psychology had a number of important precursors and prophets in other countries before it had a name, in Germany (Willy Hellpach), Japan (Tetsuro Watsuji), and Canada (Robert Sommer),amongothers,itwasformallyfoundedasadisciplineintheUnited States in the late 1960s. For quite a number of years, most research and writingemanatedfromthatcountry.However,slowlybutsurely,that“pebble tossed in the pond” has rippled outward, so much so that one might argue that more research in environmental psychology is now conducted in other countries. This handbook is a significant and very welcome sign of the internation- alization of environmental psychology. Consider that the first handbook of environmental psychology, edited by Daniel Stokols and Irwin Altman in 1987, drew upon the expertise of 66 authors from 11 countries, and 43 of theauthorswereintheUnitedStates.Incomparison,thepresenthandbook’s editors called upon the expertise of 73 authors from 14 countries, and 71 of the authors are from countries other than the United States. This is one clearindicationofthehealthyexpansionofenvironmentalpsychologyonthe globalstage.Onemightnotethatthisexpansionwillbecompletewhensome futurehandbook includes thegrowingandvaluable contributions ofauthors fromtheMiddleEast,Asia,andAfrica.However,fornow,wecancelebrate theprogresstodateinthiscomprehensivevolume. This volume is a part of a handbook series centered on quality of life. Its unique contribution is to focus on how environmental psychology understands the notion of quality of life and contributes to its definition. Indeed,qualityoflifehasbeenamajorthemeforenvironmentalpsychology at many, although certainly not all, points in its history. The challenge for thisvolumewastoreviewandtorethinkthevariousdominantthemesatthis momentinhistory,giventhattheQoLapproachservesasthebroadpaletteof thisvolume.Iinferthat“qualityoflife”wasmeantinthisprojecttomeanlife intheneighbourhood, thecity,thesociety,andtheplanet.These“ripplesin thepond”doindeedrepresent,ingeneral,awideningcirclecomparedtothe typical(butcertainlynotuniversal)focusofenvironmentalpsychologyduring itsearlydaysonmoreproximatesettings,suchastheinteriorsofbuildings. Indeed,onemid-1960snameforthefieldwas“architecturalpsychology.” The widening of the metaphorical ripples on the pond also symbolizes the increased scope of the articles in the handbook to include greater links v vi Preface with neighboring subdisciplines, such as social and health psychology, as well as with other disciplines, including sociology, geography, architecture, anthropology,urbanstudies,andengineering. Another value of this handbook lies in its combination of traditional and innovative topics. The reader will find chapters on such core original topics as environmental and urban design, schools, children, workplaces, residentialsatisfaction,hospitals,risk,andstress,aswellasonnewerbutnow well-established topics such as sustainability, nature, restoration, and place attachment.Butthereaderwillalsofindchaptersthathavehadlittlespace,to myknowledge,inreviewsofthefieldandhandbooks:greenexercise,global challenges, micropolitics, identity dynamics, cultural practices, and spatial andsocialinequality. Overall,theeditorshaveprovidedyou,thereader,withatrulyinnovative mixoftraditionalandcutting-edgechapters,craftedbythemostinternational groupofauthorseverseeninsurveyofthefield.Savorit! UniversityofVictoria,Victoria,BC,Canada RobertGifford March1,2016 Acknowledgements WewouldliketothankallthecontributorsofthisHandbook.Wewouldalso like to address a special thanks to the authors who accepted, at our request, thechallengeofwritingachaptertogether. vii Contents 1 Introduction:EnvironmentalPsychologyandQualityofLife. 1 GhozlaneFleury-Bahi,EnricPol,andOscarNavarro PartI People-EnvironmentRelationsandQoL–Environmental QualityandWell-Being 2 QualityofLifeandSustainability:TheEndofQualityatAny Price................................................... 11 EnricPol,AngelaCastrechini,andGiuseppeCarrus 3 SomeCuesforaPositiveEnvironmentalPsychology Agenda................................................. 41 SergiValeraandTomeuVidal 4 LinkingPeople-EnvironmentResearchandDesign.WhatIs Missing?............................................... 65 CaroleDesprésandDenisePiché 5 PlaceAttachment,SenseofBelongingandtheMicro-Politics ofPlaceSatisfaction..................................... 85 AndrésDi Masso,JohnDixon,andBernardoHernández PartII People-EnvironmentRelationsandQoL–Restorative Environments 6 Self, Nature and Well-Being: Sense of Connectedness andEnvironmentalIdentityforQualityofLife............. 107 PabloOlivosandSusanClayton 7 RestorativeEnvironmentsandHealth..................... 127 Silvia Collado, Henk Staats, José Antonio Corraliza, andTerryHartig 8 GreenExercise,HealthandWell-Being.................... 149 AnaLoureiroandSusanaVeloso ix
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