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The Psychology of Environmental Law, by Arden Rowell and Kenworthey Bilz New York University Press, 352 pp, US$99 hb ISBN 9781479812301
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 November 2022
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1 Importantly, the authors also do not shy away from noted shortcomings of psychological research, such as the difficulties in replicating study findings across experiments, as well as the over-reliance on research subjects from Western student populations – giving often skewed accounts of the behaviour and attitudes of the broader population (see Ch. 5, pp. 117ff).
2 Note, however, that the field of psychology itself, as the authors emphasize, does not provide any set normative framework as to what such environmental goals should be or how they should be achieved (see p. 7).
3 For a more philosophical discussion of this issue, see the recent work by Hawke on humans as ‘a part or apart’ from nature: Hawke, S., ‘A Part of Nature or Apart from Nature: A Case for Bio-Philiation’ (2022) 18 Visions for Sustainability, pp. 1–20Google Scholar.
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