Putting individuals in context : interdisciplinary and behavioral science approaches for understanding environmental and human health decisions
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Attention for addressing human and environmental health issues is often directed towards scientific and technological solutions. However, ensuring the successful uptake and implementation of these solutions requires accounting for the critical interplay of context-specific and individual-level factors that influence human behavior and decision-making. This dissertation presents two cases that demonstrate the value of using interdisciplinary approaches to account for contextual and social factors in developing an understanding of individual-level attitudes and decisions. While these studies focus on different populations and contexts, both cases serve to illustrate how pro-social attitudes at the individual level are negotiated, internalized and acted upon in ways that reflect important contextual and social factors. Finally, these cases help illustrate the benefits of using mixed methods approaches to characterize differences in individual-level attitudes and behaviors that are population-specific and socially and contextually dependent, in order to better understand the diversity of human behavior.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Wang, Jennifer |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Ardoin, Nicole M. (Nicole Michele) |
| Degree supervisor | Miller, Dale (Dale A.) |
| Thesis advisor | Ardoin, Nicole M. (Nicole Michele) |
| Thesis advisor | Miller, Dale (Dale A.) |
| Thesis advisor | Armel, Kathleen |
| Thesis advisor | Ortolano, Leonard |
| Degree committee member | Armel, Kathleen |
| Degree committee member | Ortolano, Leonard |
| Associated with | Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (Stanford University) |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Jennifer Wang. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Jennifer Wang
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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