Environmental psychology and environmental policy: theoretical and practical questions

Abstract

The article asks how one can contribute to build a bridge between environmental psychologists and politicians, since environmental psychologists have been more concerned about the theoretical and academic development of the discipline than about connecting applied areas of Environmental Psychology with the complex world of Environmental Policy. It argues that, although the bridges vary in scale, there are other equally important suppositions to be considered, such as the democratic and participative context. It presents uni-directional x bi-directional communication and discusses the way in which Environmental Psychology has seen this bridge. It concludes proposing Environmental Psychology as a process within an alternative view of participation.