Change—both to climate and to place attachment—is central to this chapter. Climate change
is causing significant environmental impacts across the globe as evidenced by melting sea …

This chapter reviews qualitative research in environmental psychology and environment–
behavior research. Qualitative research refers to conceptual and methodological …

Previous research on collective action has suggested that both intra‐and intergroup
interactions are important in producing psychological change. In this study, we examine how …

The theory of social representations (TSR) and discursive psychology (DP) originated as
different social psychological approaches and have at times been presented as …

In this chapter, we outline a discursive perspective on human–environment relations,
focusing on the process of place attachment. The first section introduces some conceptual …

Governments, namely in the global North, are fostering the deployment of large‐scale low
carbon and associated energy infrastructures (EIs), such as power lines, to mitigate climate …

Fear of crime is one of the most important problems in our cities, even in low-crime rate
areas. The aim of this paper is to provide evidence of the issues involved in the perceived …

The fear of crime and perceptions of insecurity are among the most important issues with
regard to a sustainability framework, relative to crime itself, in cities with low crime rates …

Large-scale renewable energy and associated technologies (RET), such as high voltage
power lines (HVPL), often meet opposition from the local communities living nearby …

The social construction of human-environment relations is a central concern of an emerging
tradition of research on place, which extends the so-called “discursive turn” in social …