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Identity and the Natural Environment: The Psychological Significance of Nature » (New Edition)

Book cover image of Identity and the Natural Environment: The Psychological Significance of Nature by Susan Clayton

Authors: Susan Clayton (Editor), Susan Opotow (Editor), Susan Opotow
ISBN-13: 9780262532068, ISBN-10: 0262532069
Format: Paperback
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: December 2003
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: Susan Clayton

Susan Clayton is Professor of Psychology at the College of Wooster.

Susan Opotow is Professor in the Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Book Synopsis

Theory-based, empirical studies of the ways in which our sense of identity affects and is affected by our relationship with nature, and the implications for more effective environmental policy.

	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction: Identity and the Natural Environment	1
2	Some Lives and Some Theories	25
I	Experiencing Nature as Individuals	43
3	Environmental Identity: A Conceptual and an Operational Definition	45
4	Human Identity in Relation to Wild Black Bears: A Natural-Social Ecology of Subjective Creatures	67
5	Moralizing Trees: Anthropomorphism and Identity in Children's Relationships to Nature	91
6	The Development of Environmental Moral Identity	113
7	Children's Environmental Identity: Indicators and Behavioral Impacts	135
II	Experiencing Nature in Social and Community Contexts	159
8	The Human Self and the Animal Other: Exploring Borderland Identities	161
9	Trees and Human Identity	179
10	Identity, Involvement, and Expertise in the Inner City: Some Benefits of Tree-Planting Projects	205
11	Representations of the Local Environment as Threatened by Global Climate Change: Toward a Contextualized Analysis of Environmental Identity in a Coastal Area	227
III	Experiencing Nature as Members of Social Groups	247
12	Identity and Exclusion in Rangeland Conflict	249
13	Group Identity and Stakeholder Conflict in Water Resource Management	273
14	Constructing and Maintaining Ecological Identities: The Strategies of Deep Ecologists	297
15	Identity and Sustained Environmental Practice	317
	About the Contributors	343
	Index	347