Suggested Web Sites for Environmental Psychology
Chapter 1: The Why, What, and How of Environmental Psychology
International Association of Applied Psychology, Division of Environmental Psychology
http://www.psy.gu.se/iaap/envpsych.htm
International Association of People-Environment Studies
Design Research Society
Ethics and research
http://www.apa.org/ethics/code.html#Teaching
Journal of Environmental Psychology
http://www.academicpress.com/jep
Environmental Section, Canadian Psychological Association
http://www.psych.ubc.ca/enviropsych
Chapter 2: Nature and Human Nature
Sustainability
http://www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/conted/onlinecourses/geog_210/210notes.html
Aesthetics and Rudolf Arnheim
http://astro.temple.edu/~iversteg/Gestalt.html
Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
http://www.monticello.org/index.html
Environmental Attitudes Scale: SEQUOIA from the Natural Resources Conservation Service
http://people.nrcs.wisc.edu/SSIEnvPsy/nrcs/index.shtml
New York State Biodiversity Research Institute
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/bri.html
Environmental Justice: EcoJustice Network
http://www.igc.org/envjustice/
National Park Service
Chapter 3: Environmental Perception and Cognition
Color
http://www.colormatters.com/link.html
http://www.onlineclasses.org/2013/04/19/color-theory-for-art-enthusiasts/
Perception
http://www.headphones.com/5-senses.html
Environmental Perception Laboratory, University of Arizona
Cognitive Maps in Nonhumans
http://www.biologists.com/JEB/199/01/jeb0088.html
Wayfinding without Vision
http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/people/golledge.htm
Wayfinding by Polynesian Voyagers
http://www.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/pvs/navigate/wayfind.html
Commercial Wayfinding Systems
http://www.stancosignage.com/index2.html
Chapter 4: Theories of Environment–Behavior Relationships
Overload
http://www.psycport.com/2000/07/24/eca/0018-0620-dpa-SPECIAL-Science.html
Restricted Environmental Stimulation Technique (REST)
http://www.psych.ubc.ca/~psuedfeld/RESTlab
Stress, Depression, Learned Helplessness
http://www.apa.org/psychnet/depression.html
Chapter 5: Noise
Research in the Hearing Sciences, UC Berkeley
Acoustical Society of America
OSHA Standards for Noise Exposure in the Workplace
http://www.osha-slc.gov/OshStd_data/1910_0095.html
Noise Pollution
http://ehis.niehs.nih.gov/topic/noisepol.html
http://ehis.niehs.nih.gov/topic/hearing.html
Chapter 6: Weather, Climate, and Behavior
Fundamentals of Physical Geography, including weather effects
http://www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/physgeog
http://www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/conted/onlinecourses/geog_210/210notes.html
Global Climate
http://geography.uoregon.edu/envchange/clim_animations/index.html
National Center for Atmospheric Research
National Snow and Ice Data Center
http://www.nsidc.org/NASA/SOTC
U.S. Global Change Research Program
Preventing Heat Effects, Center for Disease Control and Prevention
http://aepo-xdv-www.epo.cdc.gov/wonder/prevguid/p0000449/p0000449.htm?
Cold Stress, Center for Disease Control and Prevention
http://aepo-xdv-www.epo.cdc.gov/wonder/prevguid/tp_00200.htm
OSHA Guidelines on ELF-EMF
http://www.osha-slc.gov/SLTC/elfradiation/index.html
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences on EMFs
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/emfrapid/home.htm
Light Therapy: Northern Light Technologies
http://www.northernlight-tech.com
Chapter 7: Disasters, Toxic Hazards, and Pollution
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Disaster Prevention Guidelines, Center for Disease Control and Prevention
http://aepo-xdv-www.epo.cdc.gov/wonder/prevguid/tp_00262.htm
http://aepo-xdv-www.epo.cdc.gov/wonder/prevguid/tp_00627.htm
Natural Hazards Information Center, University of Colorado
http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/
Earthquakes
http://www-socal.wr.usgs.gov/shake/ciim_socal.html
Environmental Protection Agency
Natural Resources Defense Council
Resources for the Future
Nuclear Waste Cleanup
http://www.rff.org/nuclearcleanup
Arsenic Pollution
http://phys4.harvard.eu/~wilson/arsenic_project_main.html
Asbestos Exposure—OSHA Guidelines
http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/asbestos/standards.html
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
http://aepo-xdv-www.epo.cdc.gov/wonder/prevguid/m0039929/m0039929.htm#head001000000000000
Radon
http://ehis.niehs.nih.gov/topic/radon.html
Indoor Air Quality
http://ehis.niehs.nih.gov/topic/indoorpol.html
Sick Building Syndrome
http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1996/104-10/iti.html
Environmental Toxicology, Center for Disease Control and Prevention
http://aepo-xdv-www.epo.cdc.gov/wonder/prevguid/tp_01238.htm
Lead Poisoning, Center for Disease Control and Prevention
http://aepo-xdv-www.epo.cdc.gov/wonder/prevguid/tp_01074.htm
MegaLinks Environmental Justice/Environmental Racism Annotated Links
http://www.hensonscales.com/erlinks.htm
Chapter 8: Personal Space and Territoriality
OSHA Guidelines on Working in Confined Spaces
http://www.osha-slc.gov/SLTC/confinedspaces/index.html
Interpersonal Distance
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/OTP/papers/video.mediated.collaboration/ishii.html
Gangs, including territorial aspects
Chapter 9: Crowding
Population Growth & Global Warming
http://members.aol.com/trajcom/private/popco2.htm
U.S. Census Bureau on Crowding
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/census/histcensushsg.html
National Academy Press book on world population: Our Common Journey: A Transition toward Sustainability
http://books.nap.edu/catalog/9690.html
Population Dynamics
http://www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/conted/onlinecourses/geog_210/210notes.html
Chapter 10: The City
The City Review
Census Bureau
Gangs
Architecture Research Institute, Inc.
Children’s Architecture
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/cerdg/toc.htm
Columbia University School of Architecture, Urban Design Projects
http://www.arch.columbia.edu/UD/
Columbia University School of Architecture, Urban Planning
http://www.arch.columbia.edu/UP/upfiles/exhibits/exhibits.html
Frederick Law Olmstead
http://architecture.about.com/arts/architecture/library/blolmsted-schools.htm
International Making Cities Livable Council
http://www.livablecities.org
Cities and Green Living
http://www.nrdc.org/cities/default.asp
About Urban and Community Design
http://architecture.about.com/arts/architecture/msubmenu-ud.htm
Congress for the New Urbanism
Arcosante
Chapter 11: Planning and Design For Human Behavior
Roberta Feldman, Architect and Psychologist
http://www.apa.org/monitor/jan99/path.html
Children’s Architecture
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/cerdg/toc.htm
Frederick Law Olmstead
http://architecture.about.com/arts/architecture/library/blolmsted-schools.htm
Architecture Research Institute, Inc.
Design Research Society
About Architecture
http://architecture.about.com/arts/architecture/mbody.htm
Color
http://www.colormatters.com/entercolormatters.html
Wayfinding on Campus
Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design
www.usgbc.org/programs/leed.htm
Chapter 12: Design in Residential and Institutional Environments
Housing Information Gateway
http://www.colorado.edu/plan/housing-info/
European Network for Housing Research
Center for Health Design
http://www.HealthDesign.org/index.html
Wayfinding in a Hospital
http://www.fhcrc.org/admin/facilities/facplan/phaseii/relocation/orientation/wayfind.html
Federal Bureau of Prisons
http://www.bop.gov/pubinfo.html
Environment and Gerontology Network
http://www.tm.tue.nl/gerontology/
Home Modifications for the Elderly:
http://www.aoa.gov/aoa/eldractn/homemodf.html
Institute on Aging & Environment, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Continuum of Care: Columbine Health Systems
http://www.columbinehealth.com/
Alzheimer’s Association
Chapter 13: Work, Learning, and Leisure Environments
Ergonomics Society
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
NASA
Wayfinding in Schools
http://www.wayfinding.com/schools.htm
Smithsonian Institution
Canada’s National Gallery
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
National Park Service
Yellowstone National Park
U.S.D.A. Forest Service
Chapter 14: Changing Behavior to Save the Environment
Commons Dilemma & Other Social Dilemmas
http://members.aol.com/trajcom/private/trajcom.htm
http://magnolia.net/~leonf/sd/sd.html
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/pd.html
Hardin’s classic 1968 Tragedy of the Commons article
http://www.aloha.net/%7Ejhanson/page95.htm
U.S. Global Change Research Program
Carnegie Mellon Green Design Initiative Economic Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment
Department of Energy
American Petroleum Institute
California Energy Commission
http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/index.html
Alliance to Save Energy
National Academy Press book on world population: Our Common Journey: A Transition toward Sustainability
http://books.nap.edu/catalog/9690.html
Sustainability
http://www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/conted/onlinecourses/geog_210/210notes.html
Environmental Protection Agency
Studies of Voluntarism and Social Participation, Inc.
http://www.corch.org/svsp1.htm
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design
www.usgbc.org/programs/leed.htm
Fuel Cells:
Los Alamos National Laboratory http://www.education.lanl.gov/resources/fuelcells
Fuel Cells 2000 http://www.fuelcells.org
HyWeb http://www.hydrogen.org and www.HyWeb.de/accepth2
Wind Power
http://www.light-power.org/windpowr.HTM