Description:
This book, the result of the author's experience in psychology and forestry studies, studies the relation between these two seemingly different disciplines. The author indicates how human actions and programs affect a range of threatened or endangered situations ranging from forests and species of animals to our own traditional values and cultural groups. Sustainers, the persons who advocate and support sustainability, possess or must come to possess certain characteristics that are shown to be renunciation, knowledge, attitude, controllability, and patterning. This book seeks to discover and advocates how and why those attributes must be strengthened if we are to sustain our environment and ourselves.
Brief description:
LEONARD W. DOOB is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University. Throughout his career he has focused his research on interdisciplinary topics and has sought to apply promising scholarly findings to real-life situations, concentrating in particular on psychological warfare and conflicts in Africa and Northern Ireland. He has published numerous articles and books, including Panorama of Evil (Greenwood, 1978), The Pursuit of Peace (Greenwood, 1981), and Sustainers and Sustainability (Praeger, 1995).