environmental psychology-part five

Nowdays environmental psychology is involved in media, architecture, design, advertisement.

There are some universities, mainly in America and United Kingdom, offering Environmental Psychology courses.

The University of Surrey offers architectural psychology courses since 1973. There are 250 graduates from 25 countries from that course.

Environmental Psychology Group(EPRG) of Surrey University has led research activities for more than thirty years. Master students in Environmental Psychology are automatically involved in this work.

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environmental psychology-part four

At the end of Second World War the demand for social psychology raised. This demand raising happened particularly in areas of small-group process, attitude change, intergroup conflict.

Consequently psychologists began to apply social psychology to war, peace, prejudice. Studies were lead in laboratories. Although some doubts appeared, so professionals continued their studies outside of laboratories.

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environmental psychology-part three

The historical background of environmental psychology is not known.

The person who first mentioned this term was Willy Helpach.

The book entitled Geopsyche, discusses how the sun and moon can influence human activity, color, and form effects, etc.

Other scientists of this field were Kurt Lewin, Jakob Von Uexküll, Egon Brunswik.

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environmental psychology-part three

With such a reasonable human model, adequate environment models can be restored. These models are favorable to model reasonable behavior, predict outcomes in case of non-realization of favorable conditions.

It is also important to analyze and diagnose problems.

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environmental psychology-part two

Environmental psychology was created to solve certain problems related between humans and environment.

During the solution of these problems, implication of a human model is necessary to predict environmental conditions in which human beings will behave.

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environmental pshychology-part one

The definition of environmental psychology is that this field is an interdisciplinary field, targeting interactions between humans and the surroundings.

In this case the term environment is broadly defined, including social, natural, built, learning and informational environments.

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Crime prevention through environmental design(part three)

Defensible Space Approach was revised and additional built environment approches were added to that concept, supported by CPTED.

source:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_prevention_through_environmental_design

Crime prevention through environmental design(part two)

Founder and inventor of CPETD system was criminologist C.Ray Jeffrey.

An architect Oscar Newman developed the approach "Defensible Space".

Previously Schlomo Angel, Elizabeth Wood, Jane Jacobs worked previously on that subject.

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Crime prevention through environmental design(part one)

Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) is a multy-disciplinary approach for the deterioration of delinquency and criminal behavior through environmental design.

Strategically CPTED tends to be able to influence malicious decisions before criminal act is committed. From 2004, CPTED acts occur within built environment.
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Green Building and Eco-Friendly Homes in United Kingdom(part three)

Governement is pushing sustainable building practices because of the ignorance of officials and the presence of traditional buildings.

Private Councils such as United Kingdom Green Building Council are seeking for funds. Big companies are penetrating UK Green Building market also.

source:green-uk

Green Building and Eco-Friendly Homes in United Kingdom(part two)

Green Building construction is able to resolve landfilling waste disposal problems, for the reason to use recyclable and also sustanaible materials.

As a logic consequence, UK governement has introduced landfill taxes and encouraged recyclable material use in construction.

The main advantage of Green Building is to avoid waste material production, but Green Building is also a profitable business, too.

There is a data to emphasize green construction. In UK public buildings it was found that carbon dioxide emission in case of these buildings was much more than all of Kenya.

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Green Building and Eco-Friendly Homes in United Kingdom(part one)

United Kingdom is the country, leading the world of construction, concerning green house building.

The main reason for this is the alarming rate of construction industry waste in this country. The alarming percentage is already 36%.

In case, this rate of wasting landfills continues, there will be serious waste disposal problems.

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environmental affairs-based on suite101free online course(part six)

The main purpose of environmental affairs and management is to study and train within a framework of wide range of academic disciplines.

For the effective establishment and maintain of an environmentally safe, efficient and cost-effective environment, managers and decision makers need tools and knowledge to establish environmental programs and policies which cope with eco-issues.

source:suite101.com/lesson.cfm/17295/646

environmental affairs-based on suite101free online course(part five)

Sustanaible development indicators incorporate broader categories, like Economy, Society/Culture, Environment, Governement/Politics, Education, Health, etc.

Namibia is a fine example for the use of sustanaible development indicators to monitor environmental trends and developments.

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environmental affairs-based on suite101free online course(part four)

Effective environmental indicators help managers or communities to determine actual statement, to define clear goals of future, and how far it is from defined statements.

In case of measuring integration or efficiency, numerous indicators are required.

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environmental affairs-based on suite101free online course(part three)

Sustainable development indication must be accomplished, based on following indicators:

1. pressure of society on environment(pollution and resource depletion)

2. resulting state of the environment(incurred changes) compared to sustainable statement.

3. response of human activity, especially by political and societal forms, measures, policies.

As known, indicators are important environmental management tools. Indicators should clear complex systems, thus making them perceptible and understandable.

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environmental affairs-based on suite101free online course(part four)

Sustainable development indicators measure mainly the sustainability or the performance of sustainability.

In most of cases, environmental indicators have sustainable development framework. Sustainable development framework include environmental, economic, social indicators.

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environmental affairs-based on suite101free online course(part two)

There is another, international definition on sustanaible development, too.

"Development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs".

We know, that there are some indicators to measure sustanaible tourism. These indicators indicate the clarification of concept, measurement, monitoring, benchmarking.

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