Environment, ethics, and behavior the psychology of environmental valuation and degradation - Bazerman, Max H. (San Francisco, California The New Lexington Press, 1997)
Introduction -- Reference States, Fairness, and Choice of Measure to Value Environmental Changes -- How People Value the Environment: Attitudes Versus Economic Values Predicting Reactions to Environmental Change -- Environmental Disputes: Competition for Scarce Resources and Clashing of Values -- The Dysfunctional Aspects of Environmental Standards Attitudes, Attitude Structure, and Resistance to Change: Implications for Persuasion on Environmental Issues -- Waste Heuristics: The Desire Not to Waste Versus the Desire for New Things -- Knowledge and Action: Cultural Models of Nature and Resource Management in Mesoamerica -- Mental Models of Population Growth: A Preliminary Investigation -- Why Is the Northern Elite Mind Biased Against Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future? -- Trust, Emotion, Sex, Politics, and Science: Surveying the Risk-Assessment Battlefield -- Perception and Expectation of Climate Change: Precondition for Economic and Technological Adaptation -- Ranking Risks.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Keywords: Environmental management -- Evaluation -- Psychology; Environmental degradation -- Psychology; Environmental ethics