Conservation Psychology Reading List

Fall 2004

Books on Conservation Psychology and Related Topics

Biodiversity Project. 2002. Ethics for a Small Planet: A Communications Handbook on the Ethical and Theological Reasons for Protecting Biodiversity. Madison, Wisc.: Biodiversity Project.

Clayton, S. and S. Opotow, eds. 2003. Identity and the Natural Environment. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Gardner, G. T. and P. C. Stern. 1996. Environmental Problems and Human Behavior. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Kahn, P. H. Jr. 1999. The Human Relationship with Nature: Development and Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Kahn, P. H. Jr. and S. R. Kellert, eds. 2002. Children and Nature: Psychological, Sociocultural and Evolutionary Investigations. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Kaplan, R. and S. Kaplan. 1989. The Experience of Nature: A Psychological Perspective. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Kempton, W., J. S. Boster, and J. Hartley. 1995. Environmental Values in American Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Kellert, S. R. and E. O. Wilson, eds. 1993. The Biophilia Hypothesis. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.

McKenzie-Mohr, D. and W. Smith. 1999. Fostering Sustainable Behavior: An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing, second edition. Gabriola Island, British Columbia: New Society.

Melson, G. F. 2001. Why the Wild Things Are: Animals in the Lives of Children. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Nabhan, Gary Paul and Stephen Trimble. 1994. The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places. Boston: Beacon Press.

Winter, D. D. and S. M. Koger. 2004. The Psychology of Environmental Problems, second edition. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

List compiled by Dave Aftandilian.

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