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Some Cues for a Positive Environmental Psychology Agenda

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Handbook of Environmental Psychology and Quality of Life Research

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Environmental Psychology has made big efforts to understand how we react and adapt ourselves to our physical environs, especially when they present unfavorable conditions. However, it is possible to recognize, in many topics or research lines of a consolidated psycho-environmental tradition, the goal of generating knowledge for a better adaptation of person-environment relations, as well as the analysis of the dimensions that can generate environments where people and social groups can develop their potential, satisfy their needs, and obtain social and psychological well-being. Traditionally, attention to the aspects that influence negatively and cause discomfort has been predominant in what we can call reaction-oriented psychology, as opposed to promotion-oriented psychology, which emphasizes and upraises the positive aspects of the psychological experience. Environmental Psychology should be directed towards Positive Psychology, as does much of psychology in this century. Socio-physical space can be considered as either a generator of well-being and positive experiences or as the context in which people can experience positive personal or social situations. In this chapter, different theoretical developments of environmental psychology will be presented and proposed for inclusion in a Positive Environmental Psychology agenda. On the one hand – space as a generator of well-being –, we analyze the aesthetic quality of the landscape, the restorative capacity of environments, and place identity and place attachment developments. On the other hand – space as a context where people experience positive situations –, we suggest some reflections on the processes of urban place-making, such as the tradition of Placemaking, Community Participation and Planning or the Socially Restorative Urbanism which aims to restore social well-being and the sense of belonging to urban environments.

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