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| Foreword | |
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| Preface: The Why, the What, and the How of This Book | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| What on Earth Are We Doing? | |
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| Psychology as an Environmental Science | |
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| The Nature of the Problem | |
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| Biology's Bottom Line: Carrying Capacity | |
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| Climate Change | |
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| Other Resource Issues | |
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| Psychological Reactions to Environmental Threats | |
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| The Psychology of Overconsumption | |
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| Cultural Versus Biological Carrying Capacity | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The Nature of Western Thought | |
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| The Intellectual Roots of the DSP and Psychology | |
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| The Western View of Nature | |
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| Assumption 1: Nature is Composed of Inert, Physical Elements | |
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| Assumption 2: Nature Can and Should be Controlled | |
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| Assumption 3: Individual Human Beings Seek Private Economic Gain | |
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| Assumption 4: We Must Progress | |
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| The Nature of Nonindustrialized Thought | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Psychoanalytic Psychology: Becoming Conscious of the Unconscious | |
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| The Influence of Freud | |
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| The Basis and Basics of Freud's Theory | |
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| Critique of Freud and Psychoanalysis | |
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| Object Relations Theory: Reexperiencing the Mother | |
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| Excessive Early Demands | |
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| Attention Withdrawn Too Early | |
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| Using Freud's Ideas | |
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| The Psychoanalysis of Environmentalists | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Social Psychology: Under the Influence of Others | |
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| Norms | |
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| Social Norms | |
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| Personal Norms | |
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| Identity | |
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| Personal Norms and Environmental Justice | |
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| Altruism, Morality, and the Values Beliefs Norms Theory | |
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| Theory of Planned Behavior | |
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| Cognitive Dissonance Theory | |
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| Comparison of Models Linking Behavior to Attitudes | |
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| Who Cares About the Environment? | |
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| The Social Psychology of Materialism | |
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| The Unhappy Results of Materialism | |
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| Materialism and the Economy | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Behavioral Psychology: Contingency Management | |
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| Operant Conditioning | |
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| Antecedent Strategies: Changing the S<sup>D</sup>s | |
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| Consequence Strategies: Changing the S<sup>R</sup>s | |
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| Behavioral Self-Control | |
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| Limitations of the Behavioral Approach | |
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| Forgoing Freedom | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Neuropsychology of Toxic Exposures | |
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| Toxic Exposures | |
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| Neurodevelopment | |
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| Neurodevelopmental Disabilities | |
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| Cognitive and Attentional Impairments | |
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| Autism | |
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| Behavioral and Motor Problems | |
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| Psychosocial and Psychiatric Disorders | |
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| Toxic Effects in Adults | |
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| Accelerated Aging | |
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| Parkinson's Disease | |
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| Reproductive Abnormalities | |
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| Establishing Cause and Effect: A Research Nightmare | |
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| Legislative Issues | |
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| The Costs of Neurotoxins | |
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| Building the Perfect Beast: The Irony of Pesticides | |
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| Behavioral Solutions | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Cognitive Psychology: Information Processing | |
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| Information Processing Models | |
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| The Computer Revolution | |
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| The Constraints of GIGO | |
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| Additional Constraints on Information Processing | |
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| Framing Effects | |
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| Using Cognitive Psychology to Solve Environmental Problems | |
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| Risk Assessment: Whose Quantification Problem Is It? | |
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| The Role of Emotions in Judgment of Risk | |
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| Retaining a Voice | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Health and the Psychology of Environmental Stress | |
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| Stress | |
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| Physiology of the Stress Response | |
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| Psychological Components of the Stress Response | |
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| Stress-Associated Health Risks | |
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| Stress-Associated Behavioral Disorders | |
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| Stress-Associated Psychological Disorders | |
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| Stressful Environments | |
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| Urban Living | |
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| Noise Pollution | |
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| Climate Change, Weather and Air Pollution | |
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| Environmental Toxins | |
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| Why Do People Choose Stressful Behaviors and Environments? | |
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| Solution Approaches: Strategies for Reducing Stress | |
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| Restorative Environments | |
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| Wilderness Therapy | |
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| Green Urban Planning | |
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| Green Buildings | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Developmental Psychology: Growing Healthy Children in Nature | |
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| Indoor Children | |
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| Benefits of Nature | |
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| Cognitive Development and Reasoning Skills | |
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| Moral Development | |
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| Mental Health | |
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| Children and Animals | |
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| Fostering Proenvironmental Behaviors in Children | |
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| Environmental Education | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Holistic Approaches: Gestalt and Ecopsychology | |
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| Gestalt Psychology | |
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| Laboratory Confirmation: Group Effects in Social Dilemma Games | |
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| Gestalt Therapy | |
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| Mindfulness | |
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| The Ecological Self: The Self Beyond the Self | |
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| Ecopsychology | |
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| Evaluating Ecopsychology: The Measurement Problem | |
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| Biodiversity from an Ecopsychological Perspective | |
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| Emotional Dimensions of Ecopsychology | |
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| The Ecopsychology of Place | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Putting it Together: Using Psychology to Build a Sustainable World | |
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| Comparing the Approaches: Psychological Insights | |
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| Visualize an Ecologically Healthy World | |
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| Work with Big Ideas and Small Steps | |
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| Think Circle Instead of Line | |
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| Less is More | |
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| Practice Conscious Consumption | |
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| Act on Personal and Political Levels, Especially Local Community Participation | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The Cost of Inaction | |
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| References | |
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| Appendix: How to Do It | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |