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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      February 2010
      August 1988
      ISBN:
      9780511571237
      9780521313070
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511571237
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      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.502kg, 380 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social Psychology, UN and International Organisations, Law, Planning and Urban Geography, Psychology
      Series:
      Environment and Behavior
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    Subjects:
    Social Psychology, UN and International Organisations, Law, Planning and Urban Geography, Psychology
    Series:
    Environment and Behavior
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    'Territorial functioning' refers to an interlocked system of sentiments, cognitions, and behaviors that are highly place-specific, and socially and culturally determined and maintaining. In this book, Ralph Taylor explores the consequences of human territorial functioning for individuals, small groups, and the ecological systems in which they operate. His exploration is illuminated by his evolutionary perspective, and grounded in empirical studies by social scientists and in theoretical work on the evolution of social and spatial behaviors. He systematically reviews the related research and theory, and indicates the importance of territorial functioning to current social and environmental problems. Contrary to popular wisdom, he argues that territorial functioning is relevant only to limited locations, such as street blocks, and not to neighborhoods or nation states, and that it reduces conflicts and helps maintain settings and groups. His theoretically focused examination of all that has been discovered about human territorial functioning will interest a wide variety of environmental psychologists and designers, urban sociologists, social psychologists, planners, and ethologists, and their students.

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    "...new and refreshing look at a set of issues that have theoretical and applied implications for environment-behavior relations in many context. It will inform any reader and stimulate propositions for many years to come." Contemporary Psychology

    "...an intellectual treatise which provides an update review and fresh analysis of empirical works on human territoriality." Timothy Austin, Contemporary Sociology

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