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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783976103321

Titolo

The Behavioural environment : essays in reflection, application, and re-evaluation / / edited by Frederick W. Boal and David N. Livingstone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1989

ISBN

1-134-98787-0

1-138-88128-7

1-134-98788-9

1-280-02064-4

0-203-16858-5

9786610020645

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BoalFrederick Wilgar

LivingstoneDavid N. <1953->

KirkW (William)

Disciplina

304.2

Soggetti

Geographical perception

Human geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

In memory of William Kirk.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Contributors; Preface; Foreword by; The behavioural environment: worlds of meaning in a world of facts; Historical geography and the concept of the behavioural environment; The concept of 'the behavioural environment', and its origins, reconsidered; Environment, behaviour, and thought; Humankind-environment: musings on the role of the hyphen; People, prejudice, and place; Small-town images: evocation, function, and manipulation; Personal Construct Theory, residential decision-making, and the behavioural environment

Outrage and righteous indignation: ideology and imagery of suburbiaDivided perception in a united city: the case of Jerusalem; Thoughts, words, and 'creative locational acts'; People and places in the behavioural environment; Mirrors, masks, and diverse milieux; A curiously unbalanced condition of the powers of the mind: realism and the ecology of environmental experience; Forms of life, history, and



mind: an idealist proposal for integrating perception and behaviour in human geography; The behavioural environment: how, what for, and whose?

Sommario/riassunto

Placing human action and perception at the centre of the subject, this book considers the effects of mankind on the environment, drawing particularly from William Kirk's work on the behavioural environment model. Reviewing Kirk's original model in light of recent ideological debate and extensive new evidence, this collection of essays from leading names in the field shows that a behavioural approach is essential in understanding human geography and man's relationship with the ecological environment.