Human Behavior and Environmental Sustainability

· to (re-)draw readers’ attention to the seriousness of various environmental problems and the potential of the behavioral sciences to understand human-environment transactions;

· to demonstrate, for a variety of environmental problems, the usefulness of sound conceptual modeling and research design;

· to elucidate the importance of environmental quality for human well-being (and, consequently, sustainability), and to clarify the behavioral management of environmental problems;

· to illustrate the transactional nature of the human-environment relationship;

· to argue and demonstrate the usefulness of multidisciplinary collaboration as well as the potential of behavioral research for underpinning environmental policy making.