In his inaugural editorial,
published in the April 2003 issue of the IAAP Newsletter, current president
David Canter listed a series of objectives which the division officers would
pursue during the term leading up to the 2006 ICAP in Athens. This activity report refers to the work done
toward those objectives.
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To facilitate communication among members, potential
members, and the public
We have continued to develop the
division homepage (www.psy.gu.se/iaap/envpsych.htm)
by adding the texts of our latest IAAP Newsletter submissions and links to
other organizations We have also asked other
organisations to include a link to our website in their homepages.
·
To increase communication with
related organisations
We have continued to communicate and
cooperate with organisations whose interests and missions are related to those
of the IAAP Environmental Psychology division, especially the International
Association of People-Environmental Studies (IAPS). A symposium jointly
sponsored by the division and IAPS was convened recently at the biennial IAPS
conference in Vienna. In such efforts,
we seek to clarify the division’s identity as a home for the scientific core of
environmental psychology and as a channel for exchange between environmental
psychologists and other applied psychologists.
·
To promote contributions of an
explicitly environmental psychological character to Applied Psychology: An International Review (APIR)
Although some articles with
an environmental psychological character have come out in APIR during the past
4 years, our subdiscipline remains underrepresented in that journal. We want to further improve the representation
in APIR of research activity by our division’s members. The current editor of
the journal, Robert Wood, supports us in this regard. A few members have
responded to our calls to submit to APIR (Florian Kaiser, Tommy Gärling,
myself).
·
To build high-quality conference programs offering the
latest developments in scientific environmental psychology
Tommy Gärling will serve as the division’s program chair for
the 2006 ICAP in
·
To establish the division as a resource in support of the
development of international research collaborations
It is difficult to evaluate our
progress in this respect, but it should follow from the progress made toward
the objectives listed above.
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To recruit new members and retain existing members
Here the perennial problem. Membership for IAAP as a whole and our
division within it declines between the congresses. More remains to be done.