Sustainers and Sustainability - by Leonard W Doob (Hardcover)

About the Book

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.

Book Synopsis

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.

About the Author

LEONARD W. DOOB is the Sterling Professor of Psychology Emeritus Yale University. Recently he has been working with the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He is the author of over a dozen books, including Hesitation: Impulsivity and Reflection (Greenwood, 1990), Inevitability: Determinism, Fatalism and Destiny (Greenwood, 1988), and Personality and Authority: A View from the Behavioral Sciences (Greenwood, 1983).