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8th Biennial Conference on Environmental Psychology

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Program and Abstracts

(Print version, 10/8/09, will be distributed at the conference)

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Pre-Conference Dinner

For those, who booked the informal pre-conference dinner, here are the details.

Keynotespeakers


Monday, September 7:

Paul Slovic , University of Oregon, USA, “Risk as Analysis and Risk as Feeling: Seeking Environmental Sensitivity in a World of Data" 

Tuesday, September 8:
Frances E. Kuo , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, "The Role of Green Places and Green Views in a Healthy Human Habitat”

Wednesday, September 9:
Wander Jager , Groningen University, The Netherlands, "Can Marketing Save Our Environment? A Prospect of Using Social Simulation to Understand Environmentally Relevant Consumer Behaviour"

Environmental Psychology Division
of the German Association of Psychology (DGPs)

4th Swiss IPU (Initiative Psychologie im Umweltschutz) Conference and PhD-Seminar: September 5 at the ETH Zurich
More Information:
http://www.umwelt-psychologie.ch

8th Biennial Conference on Environmental Psychology

September 6-9, 2009 – Zürich, Switzerland

Registration, and payment (credit card only) is
available via the online registration and submission system.

Submission of abstracts and symposia ended April, 30th, 2009.

The 8th Biennial Conference of the Environmental Psychology Division of the German Association of Psychology (8. Tagung der Fachgruppe Umweltpsychologie) will take place September 6th - 9th, 2009, in Zürich, Switzerland. The conference primarily addresses the following topics: Behavioral Interventions, Conservation Behavior, Environmental Decision Making, Environmental Risks, Living in Built Environments, Methods in People Environment Studies, Mobility Behavior, Consumer Behavior, Psychology of Noise Annoyance, Psychology of Sustainability.

Conference language will be English.

Three renowned scientists in different fields of Psychology (Paul Slovic, Frances E. Kuo, Wander Jager) will give keynote addresses. There will be plenty of opportunity to meet with colleagues and peers.

Conference host is Heinz Gutscher and his team, Social Psychology Division at the Department of Psychology, University of Zurich (UZH) and Hans-Joachim Mosler, Social Systems, Department System Analyses, Integrated Assessment and Modelling, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG).

Contact: conference@sozpsy.uzh.ch

Conference flyer: (273.5KB, pdf)
Conference flyer: (4122.4KB, pdf)


Conference Committee: main fields of responsibility

Jürg Artho: coordination human resources
Heinz Gutscher: conference venue, funding
Andrée Helminger: chief conference manager; budget, catering
Bertolt Meyer: conference manager; registration and submission
Stefan Mischke: technical infrastructure and support
Hans-Joachim Mosler: call for papers, reviewing
Nicola Nübold: funding, budget
Bettina Ryf: accommodation, catering
Martin Soland: assistant; conference email
Ruth Widmer: finances, human resources

Reviewer
Florian G. Kaiser, Department of Social Psychology and Individual Differences, University of Magdeburg, D
Hans-Joachim Mosler, EAWAG, Dübendorf, CH
Carmen Tanner, Cognitive Social Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, CH
Robert Tobias, EAWAG, Dübendorf, CH

Financial Support (alphabetical order)
CMT Bachmann AG, Luzern, CH
CMT Consulting Monitoring Training AG, Cham, CH
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), D
Eidgenössische Anstalt für Wasserversorgung, Abwasserreinigung und Gewässerschutz (EAWAG), CH
Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie, Universität Zürich, CH
Fachgruppe Umweltpsychologie, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), D
Hochschulstiftung der Universität Zürich, CH
Psychologisches Institut der Universität Zürich, CH
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF), CH