Position statement
1. The state of the world’s natural environment is one of unprecedented fragility, escalating threats
and human impacts, and massive and in many cases irreversible natural environment degradation
and habitat and species loss.
2. Australian psychologists, along with other members of the scientific and professional community,
are gravely concerned about :
a. the current state of the natural environment in Australia, and globally;
b. continuing and escalating environmental threats and impacts;
c. the overall adequacy and effectiveness of current initiatives to address environmental problems
at regional, national, and international levels.
3. Convergent and interlinked threats to environmental well being and integrity include unsustainable
lifestyles and consumption patterns in ‘developed’ nations, exponentially increasing and profligate
non-renewable energy use, industrial pollution, human population pressures, habitat destruction
and biodiversity loss, decreasing agricultural productivity, overharvesting in natural environments,
conflict and war, and other cumulative and convergent human contributions to climate change. The
impacts and long term consequences of these environmental impacts are far reaching, ultimately
catastrophic, and wholly unsustainable.
4. It is clear that a central set of interlinked causes with respect to these adverse human impacts
on the natural environment and its ecosystems relate to human factors, including individual and
social motivations, cognitions, decision-making, behaviours and lifestyles, and organisational,
institutional, political, and economic contexts, processes and policies.
5. It is equally clear that the impacts of environmental degradation and climate change on human
communities, quality of life, and psychological and physical well being are profound, dramatic in
rate and extent, and alarming with respect to sustainable human communities and human well
being.
6. Psychology as a discipline and practice is concerned with all aspects of how people come to
experience, understand, and behave in their physical and social environments, and the nature of
their relationships and interactions with other individuals, groups, and species, as well as with their
natural and human made environments. Psychology as a natural and behavioural science, as well as
a social science, brings a particularly helpful and bridging perspective to environmental problems,
which can often fall between the natural and social sciences.
7. Psychologists have been substantially involved in collaborative work internationally and nationally
on many fronts relating to human transactions with the natural environment, and psychology has
much to offer:
a. theoretically, by way of conceptual models and behaviour analytic approaches with which to
consider the nature of environmental problems and issues;
b. methodologically, with respect to relevant research instruments, measures, and findings;
c. and practically, with respect to evidence-based applications, strategies, and expertise.
8. Given the urgency and magnitude of the environmental issues and problems which exist, and the
essential role of psychological factors and considerations to both the problems and solutions, this
involvement by psychologists requires much greater attention, visibility, strategic cross-disciplinary
collaborations, and concerted effort.
Position statement
1. The state of the world’s natural environment is one of unprecedented fragility, escalating threats
and human impacts, and massive and in many cases irreversible natural environment degradation
and habitat and species loss.
2. Australian psychologists, along with other members of the scientific and professional community,
are gravely concerned about :
a. the current state of the natural environment in Australia, and globally;
b. continuing and escalating environmental threats and impacts;
c. the overall adequacy and effectiveness of current initiatives to address environmental problems
at regional, national, and international levels.
3. Convergent and interlinked threats to environmental well being and integrity include unsustainable
lifestyles and consumption patterns in ‘developed’ nations, exponentially increasing and profligate
non-renewable energy use, industrial pollution, human population pressures, habitat destruction
and biodiversity loss, decreasing agricultural productivity, overharvesting in natural environments,
conflict and war, and other cumulative and convergent human contributions to climate change. The
impacts and long term consequences of these environmental impacts are far reaching, ultimately
catastrophic, and wholly unsustainable.
4. It is clear that a central set of interlinked causes with respect to these adverse human impacts
on the natural environment and its ecosystems relate to human factors, including individual and
social motivations, cognitions, decision-making, behaviours and lifestyles, and organisational,
institutional, political, and economic contexts, processes and policies.
5. It is equally clear that the impacts of environmental degradation and climate change on human
communities, quality of life, and psychological and physical well being are profound, dramatic in
rate and extent, and alarming with respect to sustainable human communities and human well
being.
6. Psychology as a discipline and practice is concerned with all aspects of how people come to
experience, understand, and behave in their physical and social environments, and the nature of
their relationships and interactions with other individuals, groups, and species, as well as with their
natural and human made environments. Psychology as a natural and behavioural science, as well as
a social science, brings a particularly helpful and bridging perspective to environmental problems,
which can often fall between the natural and social sciences.
7. Psychologists have been substantially involved in collaborative work internationally and nationally
on many fronts relating to human transactions with the natural environment, and psychology has
much to offer:
a. theoretically, by way of conceptual models and behaviour analytic approaches with which to
consider the nature of environmental problems and issues;
b. methodologically, with respect to relevant research instruments, measures, and findings;
c. and practically, with respect to evidence-based applications, strategies, and expertise.
8. Given the urgency and magnitude of the environmental issues and problems which exist, and the
essential role of psychological factors and considerations to both the problems and solutions, this
involvement by psychologists requires much greater attention, visibility, strategic cross-disciplinary
collaborations, and concerted effort.
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