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Springer Handbook Of Japan-United States Environment-Behavior Research Toward A Transactional Approach 1996 Edition by Jack Demick T. Takahashi Seymour Wapner C. Takiji Yamamoto
This volume is an outgrowth of research on the relations between human beings and their environments which has developed internationally. This development is evident in environment-behavior research studies conducted in countries other than the United States. See Stokols and Altman (1987) for examples of such work in Australia Japan France Germany the Netherlands Sweden the United King dom the former Soviet Union and Latin and North America. The international development of this research area is also evident in the establishment of profes sional organizations in different countries such as the Environment-Behavior De sign Research Association (EDRA) in the United States the Man-Environment Research Association (MERA) in Japan the International Association for People-En vironment Studies (lAPS) in Great Britain and the People and Physical Environ ment Research Association (PAPER) in Australia. This volume focuses on environment-behavior research within Japan and the United States as well as cross-cultural studies involving both countries. As we note in detail in Chapter 1 the conference on which the work presented herein is based was preceded by three Japan-United States conferences on environment-behavior research the first of which took place in Tokyo in 1980. As currently conceived the present volume stands alone as a compendium of a Significant proportion of cross-cultural research on environment-behavior relations in Japan and the United States that has been developing over the last 15 years. As such we envision the volume as a basic interdisciplinary reference for anthropolgists archi tects psychologists SOCiologists urban planners and environmental geographers. Table of contents : Physical Aspects of the Person: Visual Perception in Elderly Persons with Dementia; K. Adachi. Dwelling Design Guidelines for Accessibility in the Aging Society: A New Era in Japan; S. Kose. Psychological Aspects of the Person: Body and Self Experience: Japan Versus U.S.A.; J. Demick et al. Crosscultural Survey on Color Preferences in Three Asian Cities: Comparison among Tokyo Taipei and Tianjin; I. Soma M. Saito. Sociocultural Aspects of the Person: Urban Renewal and the Elderly: An Ethnographic Approach; H. Minami. Integrating Environmental Factors into Multidimensional Analysis; W. Michelson. Physical Aspects of the Environment: Experiencing Japanese Gardens: Sensory Information and Behavior; R. Ohno et al. Preference for Trees on Urban Environments; Y. Kubota. Interpersonal Aspects of the Environment: Rethinking Stereotypes of Family Housing in Japan and U.S.A.; S.C. Howell. Sociocultural Aspects of the Environment : 'Big School Small School' Revisited: A Case Study of a Large Scale Comprehensive High School Based on the Campus Plan; T. Sako. Future Theoretical and Empirical Directions for Environmentbehavior Research: Directions of Environmental Psychology in the 21st Century; D. Stokols. 18 additional articles. Index.