A bunch of interesting snippets from a newspaper report on the August 2008 (US) APAs conference on environment and behaviour.

The Australian Psychological Association have some interesting help sheets on dealing with the psychological impacts of climate change. They summarise some of the likely reactions to the issue and have some advice for practitioners and for supporting groups who might be particularly concerned, such as children.

I’m going to this workshop as part of the Australian Psychological Association’s Conference in Hobart at the end of September 2008. It sounds good.

Environmental attitudes and actions in context

Uzzell, D.
Saturday 27 September, 8.30am – 4.30pm

This workshop will provide a review of research methodologies and findings on environmental behaviour change, including social marketing techniques, identity theory and social norms. There will be interactive sessions to collect data from workshop participants on their perceptions of environmental issues, followed by analyses of this material using co-orientation analysis, discourse analysis, and Boal’s conflict resolution techniques to understand socially situated environmental attitudes and practices. The workshop will especially interest psychology researchers; psychologists working in policy settings (e.g. national, federal and local government); psychologists working on behaviour change programmes; and doctoral students especially from environmental, social and political psychology.