Academic Press Environmental Health Behavior: Concepts, Determinants, and Impacts

Environmental Health Behavior: Concepts, Determinants, Impacts, and Research Methods integrates two intertwined fields, environmental health sciences and human behavior, to identify and systematize what is known about human behaviors and habits. Divided into six parts, the book takes the readers through the conceptual framework for Environmental Health Behavior (EHB) (Part 1), How EHB concept targets behaviors that affect human health and health/sustainability of natural environments (Part 2), The environmental impacts of human demands and behavior (Part 3), The impact of the environment on human behavior change (Part 4), Strategies to promote EHB change (Part 5), and Methods in EBH research (Part 6). In this book, a multidisciplinary group of expert contributors introduces broad perspectives on the intricate links between environment and health and provides readers with the conceptual framework and the research tools in environmental health behavior and behavioral change. Review Introduces broader perspectives on environmental health behavior, environment-directed human behavioral change, and impacts on the environment and health From the Back Cover <i>Environmental Health Behavior: Concepts, Determinants, Impacts, and Research Methods</i> integrates two different but intertwined fields, environmental health sciences and human behavior, to identify and systematize what is known about human behaviors and habits and the challenge of environmental sustainability. Divided into six parts, the book takes the readers through: the conceptual framework for Environmental Health Behavior (EHB) (Part 1); how EHB concept targets behaviors that affect human health and health/sustainability of natural environments (Part 2); the environmental impacts of human demands and behavior (Part 3); the impact of the environment on human behavior change (Part 4); strategies to promote EHB change (Part 5); and methods in EBH research (Part 6). A multidisciplinary group of expert contributors introduces broad perspectives on the intricate links between environment and health and provides readers with the conceptual framework and the research tools in environmental health behavior and behavioral change. The book helps support environmental health behavior research, as well as the development and effective assessment of intervention programs aimed at environmental-based behavioral change. About the Author Ana Virgolino is a Health and Clinical Psychologist and a Researcher at the Environmental Health Institute (ISAMB), Lisbon School of Medicine, University of Lisbon, where she has been working in several projects linked to environmental health, mental health, epidemiology and behavioral change, also involving interventions at the community. She is the responsible investigator for the participation of the Lisbon School of Medicine, University of Lisbon in the HBM4EU Initiative, a European programme for Human Biomonitoring. Joana Costa is a Biologist and a Researcher at the Environmental Health Institute (ISAMB), Lisbon School of Medicine, University of Lisbon. She led research in Plant Ecology and Evolution for several years, and she works as a Medical Writer in ISAMB, where she is also involved in several projects under the topic of environmental health and environmental health behavior. Osvaldo Santos is a Clinical and Health Psychologist and Psychotherapist. He is Assistant Professor at Lisbon School of Medicine and teaches several topics of health psychology, and quantitative and qualitative methods applied to different areas of epidemiology and environmental health. Osvaldo is a long-time research fellow of the Institute of Preventive Medicine and Public Health and of the Institute of Environmental Health, both at Lisbon School of Medicine. Within these contexts, he has headed several research projects, some of them at the international level, in different areas of environmental epidemio