HUMAN GEOGRAPHY BEHAVIOURAL APPROACHES

• Main Author: Walmsley, D.J
• Other Authors: Lewis, G.J
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Longman 1984
• Subjects: Human geography; Human geography > Methodology; Environmental psychology
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• Item Description: Includes index
• Physical Description: xii, 195 pages illustrations 25cm
• ISBN: 0582300916

The behavioural environment is an essential concept in modern human geography. This book provides students with an exciting new framework for studying human geography within a behavioural context. It ranges the entire spectrum of modern human geography in an integrated way and provides a coherent survey of human behaviour in relation to the environment. Dr Walmsley and Dr Lewis have produced a book carefully designed as a main text for general human geography courses at universities and colleges. Students will find its blend of theoretical material with case studies particularly rewarding, whilst lecturers will find that its five-part structure enables it to be used with great flexibility as a key text in introductory courses. The book begins by investigating the interaction between geography and behaviour, and moves on to consider macro-scale approaches to understanding human behaviour in the environment. The third section looks at micro-scale approaches, including environmental information, decision making and environmental perception. In the fourth section the main behavioural perspectives in human geography are given in detailed consideration including consumer behaviour, urban living, industrial location, natural hazards, leisure and recreation, stress and pathology. migration and residential mobility, and voting behaviour. The book concludes with a survey of humanistic approaches to the study of behaviour in the environment.