Environmental Health Behavior: Concepts, Determinants, Impacts, and Research Methods integrates two intertwined fields, environmental health sciences and human behavior, to identify and systematize current knowledge about human behaviors and habits. Divided in six parts, the book takes the readers through a conceptual framework for Environmental Health Behavior (EHB) (Part 1), how EHB concept targets behaviors that affect human health and health/sustainability of natural environments (Part 2), environmental impacts of human demands and behavior (Part 3), impact of the environment on human behavior change (Part 4), strategies to promote EHB change (Part 5), and Methods in EBH research (Part 6). a multidisciplinary group of expert contributors introduces broad perspectives on the intricate links between environment and health and provides readers with the conceptual framework and the research tools in the areas of environmental health behavior and behavioral change.
1. The tragedy of commons, again
2. Did we evolve to live healthily? How natural selection shaped our body, our behaviour and the way we interact with the environment
3. A different light on environmental health
4. Cultural and civilizational determinants of environmental health
5. From public health to planetary health: Why environmental health behavior?
6. Promoting health behavior change across different environments: universal principles of behavior modification at individual and community level
7. Social and affective environments: the importance of family ecosystems for positive development during adolescence
8. School as a physical and social environmental ecosystem: The whole-school ecosystem approach for promoting health and satisfaction with life among adolescents
9. Natural and human-built environments
10. How smart cities can promote healthy and sustainable behaviours
11. The impact of developing green and exercise friendly spaces in deprived neighborhoods on health and healthy lifestyles: A systematic literature review
12. Digital environments: Additional environmental layers for EHB
13. Environmental migration and human rights: Clues for the debate
14. Environmental change, and mental health and wellbeing
15. From diagnosis to treatment of mental disorders in a world of accelerated environmental changes
16. Psychological approach to populations most at risk due to environmental changes: The case of the homeless
17. Challenges from patterns of human behaviours and drought: Environmental and human health risks
18. Energy poverty: Overview and special approach to the case of Portugal
19. The environmental footprint of the health care and wellbeing sectors
20. Health and environmental risk communication: Avoiding risk information avoidance and unintentional message framing effects
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