Environmental psychology:

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1 Environmental psychology: Viewpoints and methodologies Hirohiko Ohta Kansai University of International Studies Referring the definition of environmental psychology, the author introduced the historical processes of the birth of both narrow sensed environmental psychology and broader interdisciplinary one. Then the author mentioned about the intentional scope of environmental psychology, and outlined scholarly viewpoints and methodologies of environmental psychology with citing landscape studies as concrete examples. In landscape studies researchers stand on various kinds of viewpoint and adopt certain methodology according to each stance and taste. The future of environmental psychology must be examined in consideration for the concept of transaction between man and environment, that was advocated for the conquer of the interactional viewpoint analyzing causes and effects. Keywords: environmental psychology, landscape studies, transaction The Japanese Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2013, Vol. 1, No. 1, 4 11

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