is difficult to summarize 3 intense days of presentations, tables, workshops, debates, ... in just a blog, but hey, at the request of my readers I will try.
As you know l @ s that follow are accustomed to social networking sites like twitter or facebook, from 9 to February 11 I ran away to Almeria where they celebrated the XI Congress Environmental Psychology, a real event that finally put faces to names as read, known and admired.
The theme for the conference which was dedicated this year was "Urban Spaces and Sustainability" , l @ s so you know what I'm concerned that recently with the idea of \u200b\u200btransforming our cities, the desire imaginaréis and illusions that led to the event.
Congress opened the Workshop on Comprehensive Assessment of Sustainability of Local Action Plans, coordinated by Herranz-Pascual Karmele One of the environmental psychologists applied the national scene and that each intervention is working to find the pragmatic sense of the different lines of research.
After that began the avalanche of conferences, symposia and panel submissions:
Maria Luisa Lima (Lisbon) taught us that the challenge of environmental psychology today is in part landscape construction and the proof is his own work in the participatory planning process at the time of dam building management.
Ricardo de Castro , who has been working within the Ministry of Environment of the Junta de Andalucía, moderated a symposium which took contributions from the psychosocial field global climate change and the role of human behavior.
The second day continued with the interventions of Bernardo Hernández, who spoke on attachment to place-based studies in the Canary Islands, José M. Palma and Fatima Bernardo investigating the relationship between place attachment and discrimination and occupation of the territory, later Sergi Valera showed us the positive side of environmental psychology, focusing on promoting the welfare and the theory of flow of unpronounceable Csikszentmihalyi.
After that, he played pick, so inevitably choose "Public Space" moderated by Mamen Peñaranda and Pep Vivas-Elias , all the interventions I stay with Jose Simoes and Ramon Ribera taught us how through the theater on the one hand and citizen mobilization can change the perception of public space and even his physiognomy.
The grueling second day ended with a plenary symposium in the room "bioclimatic" (which was rather a refrigerator at maximum power) moderated by Iñiguez Lupicinio around sustainability and new approaches emerging around the concept. No doubt I'll stick with the intervention of Jordi Bonet showing the impact of citizen participation in urban transformation and the different ways to incorporate the citizen in decision-making.
already fairly scorched with neurons began the last day, where a stunning Terry Hartig, spoke of how certain environmental contexts may be able to restore our attention and mitigate problems such as stress and fatigue a. I can think of many applications in fields of knowledge such as medicine, architecture, design, ... By the way, my sincere thanks to the translator good, because if it is on the other, we understand little of the conference, ha, ha, ... Although I admit my fault, I should practice more my poor English.
choosing mid-morning, and this time hit listen to the presentation of my roommate, Ignacio Pisano, who masterfully explained his research based on data from the Andalusian Ecobarómetro where correlated high environmental awareness with the probability of having a pro-environmental behavior , it appears that the least in Andalusia, there is much difference between what people think and say and how it behaves afterwards.
I only had one afternoon, after lunch I went into the table on Institutional Spaces and Housing, where the language barrier to learn more deprived me, I recognize my knowledge of Portuguese is horrible. And to end the controversial conference Joseph M. Oliveira da Palma with the suggestive title "Homo Sapiens vs. Homo Artiflex (smartass) or the inevitability of environmental destruction , which left no one indifferent generated an intense debate on what our active role in conservation or destruction of our environment.
Ultimately this is the record of 3 days of intense sweating Environmental Psychology in Almeria, but obviously there are more things in the pipeline: They walk on the beach Almeria (most restful environment) tapas those routes by the more typical Tasquita guided by the team of hostesses @ s of Congress, meet people from so many nationalities in this and the other side of the pond with one common bond, our passion for environmental psychology and especially thank to Eva and Nacho , my traveling companions, the team will Córdoba environmental psychologists to talk soon!
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