Informing environmental problems through field analysis: Toward a community landscape theory of pro-environmental behavior. Issue 4 (8th August 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mainzer, Stephen; Luloff, A. E.
• Is Part Of: Community development. Volume 48:Issue 4(2017)
• Page Start: 483
• Page End: 498
• Publication Date: 2017-08-08
• Subjects: Field theory -- interactional community -- landscape -- pro-environmental behavior -- transdisciplinary; Community development -- Periodicals; 307.1405
• DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2017.1325918
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1557-5330

Abstract

Abstract: The physical and social environments influence individual values, perceptions, and actions from which community emerges. These relationships outline a multi-level transdisciplinary framework of interactions that inform human behavior. This article seeks to accomplish three things: (1) to construct a rationale for unifying commonalities among field-based concepts of behavior, landscape, and community; (2) to describe a transdisciplinary field theory-based model of pro-environmental behavior; and (3) to provide a hypothetical application. Finally, we present a community landscape model of pro-environmental behavior as a framework for addressing complex and wicked environmental problems that require transdisciplinary approaches.