環境保全問題へのコミュニティ心理学の寄与

抄録

Can community psychology do the contribution of what kind of contents to the environmental conservation issues? Environmental sociology puts emphasis on the viewpoints not usual adaptive management but adaptive governance as an answer for the question of "Why doesn’t environmental conservation go well?" This way of thinking can harmonize with the viewpoints of community psychology. So, three points of the following are proposed as a main contribution plan from community psychology in this paper with referring to this viewpoint. Firstly, it is the renouncement of value free in the research, and this means to be a party to the citizen’s position. The second is the importance of collaborative research with the community, and proposes two of the next: ①the environmental conservation study as the community should be keep the five principles of community research partnerships which Dalton et al.(2001) say, and ②utilization of participatory action research as the research method. Finally, in the viewpoint of the philosophy of community psychology, I want to point out four of the next: ①respect for diversity and preparation of alternatives, ②sense of community, ③citizen participation and empowerment, and ④social change. Throughout these viewpoints, it will be expect that the environmental conservation issues are developed well by aiming at the social change of the bottom-up type that citizens are involved.