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The Natural Environment and Behavior

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The writings of philosophers, poets and naturalists, the works of painters of all periods and styles, the zealous efforts of conservationists and environmentalists all bear witness to the high amount of affect and interest that we invest in our natural environment. Yet this topic has played little role in the development of environmental psychology as it is typically conceived, as a perusal of major reviews (e. g., item #6), and anthologies (e. g., item #30) makes apparent. It is as though psychologists, preoccupied with concepts of proxemics and socio-spatial processes, with problems of environmental stress, and with cognitive representation of the environment, have not known quite what to do with this somewhat elusive side of our environmental experience. This has not, however, inhibited those in diverse applied fields, including landscape architecture, forestry, natural recreation, and natural resource conservation, from devoting themselves to the study of behavioral and social-science aspects of problems relating to the use, conservation, and management of the natural environment, aided by a scattering of psychologists, sociologists and even economists who have harbored compatible interests.

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