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Abstract. Increasing demands on ecosystems, decreasing biodiversity, and climate change are among the most pressing environmental issues of our time. As changing weather conditions are leading to increased vector-borne diseases and heat- and flood-related deaths, it is entering collective consciousness: environmental issues are human health issues. In public health, the field addressing these issues is known as environmental health. This field addresses both the effects people have on their environment as well as the effects of the environment on people. Psychology, as a discipline concerned with explaining, predicting, and changing behavior has much to contribute to these issues because human behavior is key in promoting environmental health. To date, however, an integrative view of environmental health in psychology is lacking, hampering urgently needed progress. In this paper, we review how the environment and human health are intertwined, and that much can be gained through a systemic view of environmental health in psychology. Based on a review of the literature, we suggest that psychologists unite efforts to promote an integrative science and practice of environmental health psychology, and jointly address environmental-health related behavior. The research agenda for this field will include integrating behavior change theory and intervention approaches. Thereby, psychology can potentially make an important contribution to sustained environmental health for generations to come.

Background Patterns of protective health behaviors, such as handwashing and sanitizing during the COVID-19 pandemic, may be predicted by macro-level variables, such as regulations specified by public health policies. Health behavior patterns may also be predicted by micro-level variables, such as self-regulatory cognitions specified by health behavior models, including the Health Action Process Approach (HAPA). Purpose This study explored whether strictness of containment and health policies was related to handwashing adherence and whether such associations were mediated by HAPA-specified self-regulatory cognitions. Methods The study (NCT04367337) was conducted among 1,256 adults from Australia, Canada, China, France, Gambia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, and Switzerland. Self-report data on cross-situational handwashing adherence were collected using an online survey at two time points, 4 weeks apart. Values of the index of strictness of containment and health policies, obtained from the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker database, were retrieved twice for each country (1 week prior to individual data collection). Results Across countries and time, levels of handwashing adherence and strictness of policies were high. Path analysis indicated that stricter containment and health policies were indirectly related to lower handwashing adherence via lower self-efficacy and self-monitoring. Less strict policies were indirectly related to higher handwashing adherence via higher self-efficacy and self-monitoring. Conclusions When policies are less strict, exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus might be higher, triggering more self-regulation and, consequently, more handwashing adherence. Very strict policies may need to be accompanied by enhanced information dissemination or psychosocial interventions to ensure appropriate levels of self-regulation.

Funding Dominika Kwasnicka's work is carried out within the HOMING program of the Foundation for Polish Science co-financed by the European Union under the European Regional Development Fund; grant number POIR.04.04.00-00-5CF3/18-00; HOMING 5/2018. Dimitra Kale and Olga Perski receive salary support from Cancer Research UK (C1417/A22962). Daniel Powell is funded by the Scottish Government's Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services (RESAS) and by the School of Medicine, Medical Sciences, and Nutrition (SMMSN) at the University of Aberdeen. Felix Naughton's salary is covered by the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of East Anglia. Acknowledgments The review team would like to thank Dr Marta Marques for comments and suggestions on the initial version of the review protocol. The authors would like to thank the patient and public involvement representative who commented on the lay summary of our proposed plan, for their contribution to this research. ; Peer reviewed ; Publisher PDF

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Trialogue on Revolution and Transformation -- 3 Revolutions, Transformations, Civilisations: Prolegomena to a Paradigm Reorientation -- 4 The Transformation of Capitalism and the Limits of Democracy -- 5 From Civilisational Crisis to Revolutionary Transformation? -- 6 Environmental Crisis and Political Revolutions -- 7 Communists and Social Democrats in the Hungarian Soviet Republic -- 8 Can Political Participation Become Dangerous for Democracy? Participatory Experiences in Brazil and the Reactions Against Them -- 9 Hidden Revolutionary Processes in 1990s India? -- 10 Matching Reforms of Political and Economic Systems of China -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index

School-based programmes may promote knowledge and skills required to address climate change and better health and well-being in adolescents, yet evidence of their effectiveness is limited. In preparation for evaluating the Public Climate School, a school-based intervention to promote climate awareness and action in adolescents, we conduct a pilot study intended to assess procedures for participant recruitment, retention, and data collection, data quality issues and to provide preliminary parameter estimates to guide sample size calculations. Methods and analysis: This unblinded, cluster-controlled pilot study targets students in twelve classes from grades seven to thirteen in German public schools. Seven and five classes were allocated to the intervention and waitlist control arms, respectively. The intervention consisted of (1) live lessons on YouTube, (2) climate-related challenges of the day, (3) workshops and (4) peer exchange sessions. Waitlist control classes participated three weeks later. Measures included the proportion of students completing baseline and follow-up surveys, a comparison of baseline characteristics between students in the retained subsample and those lost to follow-up, proportions of students completing online and paper-pencil-based surveys and problems during data collection based on information reported by teachers. Data quality was assessed as proportions of missing data, associations between missingness and sociodemographic measures using logistic regression models and basic psychometric properties of scales including ceiling effects and internal consistency. Intentions to reduce one's ecological footprint, the primary outcome, and all secondary outcomes for effect estimation were assessed one week pre- and post-intervention from November to December 2021 using items adapted from internationally used instruments and will be investigated using generalised linear mixed models and intention-to-treat analyses. Conclusions: The pilot study will lay the methodological groundwork for a large-scale cluster-randomised effectiveness and process evaluation of the Public Climate School. If proven effective and rolled out more broadly, the Public Climate School has the potential to contribute meaningfully to national climate mitigation and adaptation efforts by reaching a substantial share of adolescents in public schools, including those traditionally less involved in climate action.

À l'occasion de son vingtième anniversaire, le CEFRES a invité des chercheurs et des responsables de la recherche et de la coopération internationale à participer à huit tables rondes. Il s'agissait d'abord de réfléchir aux transformations du contexte dans lequel s'inscrit dorénavant le développement de la recherche, et aux défis que doivent relever les chercheurs et leurs réseaux ici, en France, et en Europe centrale depuis l'élargissement européen. Lors d'une seconde journée, de jeunes chercheurs formés partiellement par les institutions comme le CEFRES encadraient des tables rondes interdisciplinaires sur des thèmes d'actualité: Penser la violence et Culture et politique.

À l'occasion de son vingtième anniversaire, le CEFRES a invité des chercheurs et des responsables de la recherche et de la coopération internationale à participer à huit tables rondes. Il s'agissait d'abord de réfléchir aux transformations du contexte dans lequel s'inscrit dorénavant le développement de la recherche, et aux défis que doivent relever les chercheurs et leurs réseaux ici, en France, et en Europe centrale depuis l'élargissement européen. Lors d'une seconde journée, de jeunes chercheurs formés partiellement par les institutions comme le CEFRES encadraient des tables rondes interdisciplinaires sur des thèmes d'actualité: Penser la violence et Culture et politique.

À l'occasion de son vingtième anniversaire, le CEFRES a invité des chercheurs et des responsables de la recherche et de la coopération internationale à participer à huit tables rondes. Il s'agissait d'abord de réfléchir aux transformations du contexte dans lequel s'inscrit dorénavant le développement de la recherche, et aux défis que doivent relever les chercheurs et leurs réseaux ici, en France, et en Europe centrale depuis l'élargissement européen. Lors d'une seconde journée, de jeunes chercheurs formés partiellement par les institutions comme le CEFRES encadraient des tables rondes interdisciplinaires sur des thèmes d'actualité: Penser la violence et Culture et politique.

À l'occasion de son vingtième anniversaire, le CEFRES a invité des chercheurs et des responsables de la recherche et de la coopération internationale à participer à huit tables rondes. Il s'agissait d'abord de réfléchir aux transformations du contexte dans lequel s'inscrit dorénavant le développement de la recherche, et aux défis que doivent relever les chercheurs et leurs réseaux ici, en France, et en Europe centrale depuis l'élargissement européen. Lors d'une seconde journée, de jeunes chercheurs formés partiellement par les institutions comme le CEFRES encadraient des tables rondes interdisciplinaires sur des thèmes d'actualité: Penser la violence et Culture et politique.

À l'occasion de son vingtième anniversaire, le CEFRES a invité des chercheurs et des responsables de la recherche et de la coopération internationale à participer à huit tables rondes. Il s'agissait d'abord de réfléchir aux transformations du contexte dans lequel s'inscrit dorénavant le développement de la recherche, et aux défis que doivent relever les chercheurs et leurs réseaux ici, en France, et en Europe centrale depuis l'élargissement européen. Lors d'une seconde journée, de jeunes chercheurs formés partiellement par les institutions comme le CEFRES encadraient des tables rondes interdisciplinaires sur des thèmes d'actualité: Penser la violence et Culture et politique.

À l'occasion de son vingtième anniversaire, le CEFRES a invité des chercheurs et des responsables de la recherche et de la coopération internationale à participer à huit tables rondes. Il s'agissait d'abord de réfléchir aux transformations du contexte dans lequel s'inscrit dorénavant le développement de la recherche, et aux défis que doivent relever les chercheurs et leurs réseaux ici, en France, et en Europe centrale depuis l'élargissement européen. Lors d'une seconde journée, de jeunes chercheurs formés partiellement par les institutions comme le CEFRES encadraient des tables rondes interdisciplinaires sur des thèmes d'actualité: Penser la violence et Culture et politique.

À l'occasion de son vingtième anniversaire, le CEFRES a invité des chercheurs et des responsables de la recherche et de la coopération internationale à participer à huit tables rondes. Il s'agissait d'abord de réfléchir aux transformations du contexte dans lequel s'inscrit dorénavant le développement de la recherche, et aux défis que doivent relever les chercheurs et leurs réseaux ici, en France, et en Europe centrale depuis l'élargissement européen. Lors d'une seconde journée, de jeunes chercheurs formés partiellement par les institutions comme le CEFRES encadraient des tables rondes interdisciplinaires sur des thèmes d'actualité: Penser la violence et Culture et politique.

© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ; Background: Patterns of protective health behaviors, such as handwashing and sanitizing during the COVID-19 pandemic, may be predicted by macro-level variables, such as regulations specified by public health policies. Health behavior patterns may also be predicted by micro-level variables, such as self-regulatory cognitions specified by health behavior models, including the Health Action Process Approach (HAPA). Purpose: This study explored whether strictness of containment and health policies was related to handwashing adherence and whether such associations were mediated by HAPA-specified self-regulatory cognitions. Methods: The study (NCT04367337) was conducted among 1,256 adults from Australia, Canada, China, France, Gambia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, and Switzerland. Self-report data on cross-situational handwashing adherence were collected using an online survey at two time points, 4 weeks apart. Values of the index of strictness of containment and health policies, obtained from the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker database, were retrieved twice for each country (1 week prior to individual data collection). Results: Across countries and time, levels of handwashing adherence and strictness of policies were high. Path analysis indicated that stricter containment and health policies were indirectly related to lower handwashing adherence via lower self-efficacy and self-monitoring. Less strict policies were indirectly related to higher handwashing adherence via higher self-efficacy and self-monitoring. Conclusions: When policies are less strict, exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 ...

International audience ; BACKGROUND: Patterns of protective health behaviors, such as handwashing and sanitizing during the COVID-19 pandemic, may be predicted by macro-level variables, such as regulations specified by public health policies. Health behavior patterns may also be predicted by micro-level variables, such as self-regulatory cognitions specified by health behavior models, including the Health Action Process Approach (HAPA). PURPOSE: This study explored whether strictness of containment and health policies was related to handwashing adherence and whether such associations were mediated by HAPA-specified self-regulatory cognitions.METHODS: The study (NCT04367337) was conducted among 1,256 adults from Australia, Canada, China, France, Gambia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, and Switzerland. Self-report data on cross-situational handwashing adherence were collected using an online survey at two time points, 4 weeks apart. Values of the index of strictness of containment and health policies, obtained from the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker database, were retrieved twice for each country (1 week prior to individual data collection).RESULTS: Across countries and time, levels of handwashing adherence and strictness of policies were high. Path analysis indicated that stricter containment and health policies were indirectly related to lower handwashing adherence via lower self-efficacy and self-monitoring. Less strict policies were indirectly related to higher handwashing adherence via higher self-efficacy and self-monitoring.CONCLUSIONS: When policies are less strict, exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus might be higher, triggering more self-regulation and, consequently, more handwashing adherence. Very strict policies may need to be accompanied by enhanced information dissemination or psychosocial interventions to ensure appropriate levels of self-regulation.