Synopses & Reviews
This book, the result of the author's experience in psychology and forestry studies, studies the relation between these two seemingly different disciplines. The author indicates how human actions and programs affect a range of threatened or endangered situations ranging from forests and species of animals to our own traditional values and cultural groups. Sustainers, the persons who advocate and support sustainability, possess or must come to possess certain characteristics that are shown to be renunciation, knowledge, attitude, controllability, and patterning. This book seeks to discover and advocates how and why those attributes must be strengthened if we are to sustain our environment and ourselves.
Synopsis
Explores the influence human culture has on the survival of life forms.
About the Author
LEONARD W. DOOB is the Sterling Professor of Psychology Emeritus Yale University.
Table of Contents
Preface
Challenges
Personality
Renunciation
Adequate Knowledge
Sensitive Attitudes
Controllability
Patterning
Action
Promotion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
References