Healthy environment, Healthy people: Bridging Environmental and Health Psychology

“Healthy environment, healthy people: Bridging environmental and health psychology”
Presented by IAAP and EHPS SIG  “Equity, Global Health and Sustainability”
Monday, November 25, 2024 
1:30 – 5:00 pm UTC 

Members of Division 4:Environmental Psychology, Division 8:Health Psychology, and EHPS teamed up for a joint webinar.

The webinar explored the following topics:

➢    Positive effects of nature contact on mental health and health behaviours
➢    Environmental change & health: The importance of nature for building individual & societal resilience
➢    Perceived integral restoration: psychological, ethical, and environmental restorations and their relationships with aesthetical appreciation and sustainable behaviour
➢    Climate change and psychosocial wellbeing
➢    Examining healthy and sustainable mobility in a Citizen Science study
➢    Promoting environmental health behavior at the individual and socio-technical level: Evidence from studies on arsenic contamination in Bangladesh and India

SPEAKERS
●    Yidi Chen - Department of Psychology, Beijing Forestry University, China
●    Mat White - Vienna Cognitive Science Hub, University of Vienna, Austria
●    Victor Corral Verdugo -Department of Psychology and Communication Sciences, University of Sonora, Mexico
●    Susan Clayton - The College of Wooster Ohio, USA
●    Jan Keller - Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
●    Jennifer Inauen - Department of Health Psychology & Behavioral Medicine, University of Berne, Switzerland

DISCUSSANT
●   Sonia Lippke - University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

MODERATORS
●    Marino Bonaiuto – Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy – President-elect IAAP Division 4 (Environmental Psychology)
●    Yiqun Gan – Peking University, Peking, China – President IAAP Division 9 (Health Psychology)
●    Josianne Kollmann – Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland – Co-lead of the EHPS SIG “Equity, Global Health and Sustainability”