Environmental Health Behavior Concepts, Determinants, Impacts, and Research Methods

Environmental Health Behavior: Concepts, Determinants, Impacts, and Research Methods integrates two intertwined fields, environmental health sciences and human behavior, to identify and systematize current knowledge about human behaviors and habits. Divided in six parts, the book takes the readers through a conceptual framework for Environmental Health Behavior (EHB) (Part 1), how EHB concept targets behaviors that affect human health and health/sustainability of natural environments (Part 2), environmental impacts of human demands and behavior (Part 3), impact of the environment on human behavior change (Part 4), strategies to promote EHB change (Part 5), and Methods in EBH research (Part 6). a multidisciplinary group of expert contributors introduces broad perspectives on the intricate links between environment and health and provides readers with the conceptual framework and the research tools in the areas of environmental health behavior and behavioral change.

1. The tragedy of commons, again
2. Did we evolve to live healthily? How natural selection shaped our body, our behaviour and the way we interact with the environment
3. A different light on environmental health
4. Cultural and civilizational determinants of environmental health
5. From public health to planetary health: Why environmental health behavior?
6. Promoting health behavior change across different environments: universal principles of behavior modification at individual and community level
7. Social and affective environments: the importance of family ecosystems for positive development during adolescence
8. School as a physical and social environmental ecosystem: The whole-school ecosystem approach for promoting health and satisfaction with life among adolescents
9. Natural and human-built environments
10. How smart cities can promote healthy and sustainable behaviours
11. The impact of developing green and exercise friendly spaces in deprived neighborhoods on health and healthy lifestyles: A systematic literature review
12. Digital environments: Additional environmental layers for EHB
13. Environmental migration and human rights: Clues for the debate
14. Environmental change, and mental health and wellbeing
15. From diagnosis to treatment of mental disorders in a world of accelerated environmental changes
16. Psychological approach to populations most at risk due to environmental changes: The case of the homeless
17. Challenges from patterns of human behaviours and drought: Environmental and human health risks
18. Energy poverty: Overview and special approach to the case of Portugal
19. The environmental footprint of the health care and wellbeing sectors
20. Health and environmental risk communication: Avoiding risk information avoidance and unintentional message framing effects

Ana Virgolino is a Health and Clinical Psychologist and a Researcher at the Environmental Health Institute (ISAMB), Lisbon School of Medicine, University of Lisbon, where she has been working in several projects linked to environmental health, mental health, epidemiology and behavioral change, also involving interventions at the community. She is the responsible investigator for the participation of the Lisbon School of Medicine, University of Lisbon in the HBM4EU Initiative, a European programme for Human Biomonitoring.
Osvaldo Santos is a Clinical and Health Psychologist and Psychotherapist. He is a Lecturer at the Lisbon School of Medicine and teaches several topics of health psychology, research methods (both quantitative and qualitative) applied to different areas of public health and environmental health. Osvaldo is a long-time research fellow of the Institute of Preventive Medicine and Public Health and he leads the Environmental Health Behavior Lab (EnviHeB Lab) of the Institute of Environmental Health, both at Lisbon School of Medicine. Within these contexts, he has headed several research projects, some of them at the international level, in different areas of health psychology, public health, and environmental health. He has about fifty relevant scientific papers, some of them in high impact journals (e.g., Lancet, eLife and BMC Geriatrics). He is also Editor- In-Chief of The Psychologist: Research & Practice Journal since April 2017. Main areas of interest are: treatment adherence, behavior modification and habits formation, health related quality of life and other patients’ outcome (real world experience) indicators, community health interventions.

Ricardo R. Santos is a Board-certified Biologist. He is a Researcher at the Institute of Environmental Health, and Lecturer at the Lisbon School of Medicine, University of Lisbon. He is also Doctoral Researcher at the iNOVA Media Lab, NOVA Institute of Communication and associate member of the Human