Main description:

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.

Contents:

Part 1 Environmental Health meets Health Behavior: Towards an Innovative and Heuristic Concept
1. One for All, All for One? Effects of Humankind Development on Biodiversity
2. Land Ethics, Bioethics and the Gaia Hypothesis
3. Natural and Human-built Environments
4. From One Health to Planetary Health
5. A Different Light on Environmental Health
6. Why Environmental Health Behavior?

Part 2 Determinants of Environmental Health Behavior
7. Biological and Developmental Determinants
8. Individual and Family Determinants
9. Social and Economic Determinants
10. Political Determinants
11. Cultural Determinants
12. Civilizational Determinants

Part 3 Environmental Impacts of Human Demands and Behaviors
13. Food Industry-related Environmental Impacts
14. The Environmental Footprint of the Health Care and Wellbeing Sectors
15. Digital Footprints
16. Waste Production, Management and Treatment
17. Global Communication
18. Globalization, Transportation and Human Migrations
19. Energy Consumption and Production
20. Challenges from Patterns of Water Use and Drought

Part 4 The Impact of Environmental Change on Human Behavior
21. Environmental Change: Drivers for Individual and Communities' Lifestyle
22. The Nexus Between Environmental Change and Physical Health
23. Environmental Change and Mental Health and Wellbeing
24. Energy Poverty in an Era of Change

Part 5 Strategies for Promoting Environmental Health Behavioral Change
25. Models and Principles of Behavioral Change
26. Family-directed EHB Interventions
27. School-based EHB Intervention Programs
28. EHB Intervention Programs at the Workplace
29. Promoting EHB Change at Institutions Providing Social Support to Populations at Risk
30. Promoting EHB Change across Different Sectors: Universal Principles of Behavior Modification at Community Level
31. EHB Intervention Programs for Health Professionals
32. Risk Assessment and Communication
33. How Smart and Digital Cities Can Promote Healthy and Sustainable Behaviors

Part 6 Research Methods in Environmental Health Behavior
34. Environmental Health Impact Assessment
35. Interventions Targeting EHB Promotion: Design, Implementation and Assessment
36. Defining Guidelines and Harmonizing Methodologies for Environmental Health Assessment
37. Prospective Observation of EHB and Behavioral Change