Introductions to published academic papers.
Summary – Techno-industrial societies face harsh biophysical limits and the negative consequences of disrupting Earth’s ecosystems. This new reality creates a new behavioral context with an unmistakable demand: Citizens of such societies must turn away from seeking new resources and new way to use those resources, toward the crafting of new living patterns that respond well to energy descent and which function well within finite ecosystems.
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Summary – A one-time era of vast energy and natural resources allowed modern civilization to emerge and flourish. This gift of abundant resources supported the building of industrial society’s urban settlements and physical infrastructure. The material richness also supported the creation of a consumerist society now characterized by a massive global flow of goods and services.
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Summary – Environmental psychology is a field of study that examines the interrelationship between environments and human affect, cognition, and behavior (Bechtel & Churchman 2002; Gifford 2007; Stokols & Altman 1987). The field has always been concerned with both built and natural environments with early research emphasizing the former (Stokols 1995;
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Summary – Like many environmentalists, the journal Ecopsychology undergoing periodic re-visioning. This paper imagines how practitioners might help people to prepare for the harder times ahead. It suggests that psychologists are well positioned to help people envision an alternative to our current relationship with resources, to help them to anticipate that everyday life will soon differ substantially from conventional expectations and to help them to realize that,
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Summary – Understanding the need for localization is not the same as knowing what steps to take and how to take them. To respond well to the existential threats of energy and resource descent, global heating, and soil depletion, a great many small experiments must be conducted,
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