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Transactional and transformational theories in behavioral geography

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In this article, a transactional/transformational perspective is adopted as a basis for understanding the relationships between the dynamics of human behavior and the dynamic of the environment, and two conceptual models are developed which provide bases for understanding different modes of person/environment transformation, and human behavior as it mediates change.
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Inadequate theoretical conceptualization of person/environment relations has characterized behavioral geography as an eclectic and incoherent subfield. Past work has failed to appreciate the person/environment unity as an entity of change. A transactional/transformational perspective is adopted in this paper as a basis for understanding the relationships between the dynamics of human behavior and the dynamics of the environment. Two conceptual models are developed which provide bases for understanding (i) different modes of person/environment transformation, and (ii) human behavior as it mediates change. The potential relevance of a transactional perspective for empirical research in behavioral geography is noted.

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Measuring Experience Economy Concepts: Tourism Applications:

TL;DR: This article developed a measurement scale tapping Pine and Gilmore's (1999) four realms of experience that is applicable to lodging and tourism research across various destinations, focusing on the bed-and-breakfast industry.
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Urban environmental quality and human well-being Towards a conceptual framework and demarcation of concepts; a literature study

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the main concepts of livability, environmental quality, quality of life, and sustainability in the field of urban environmental quality and human well-being.
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The Formation of a Composite Urban Image

TL;DR: In this paper, a model presenting paths among locational and non-locational environmental stimuli and an introspective measure of a composite urban image is presented, and changes in the paths due to information and personal attributes that reflect different realms (for example, fields of attention) are further examined with an expanded version of the model.
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Paradigms in migration research: exploring "moorings" as a schema.

TL;DR: Combining theories of human motivation with the developing understanding of cultural influences may provide linkages between the personal realm of migration and the regional institutional framework of politicoeconomic structure within which people make their decisions.
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Nonresidential Crime Attractors and Generators Elevate Perceived Neighborhood Crime and Incivilities

TL;DR: In this article, a land-use perspective theoretically grounded in Brantingham and Brantham's geometry of crime model in environmental criminology is presented. But the authors focus on specific classes of land uses and suggest relevance of land use beyond and within respondents' neighborhoods.
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THE SECOND CYBERNETICS Deviation-Amplifying Mutual Causal Processes

TL;DR: Since its inception, cybernetics was more or less identified as a science of self-regulating and equilibrating systems, but the deviation-amplifying systems have not been given as much investment of time and energy by the mathematical scientists, and understanding and practical application on the part of geneticists, ecologists, politicians and psychotherapists.
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A theory of personality

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a map of the Balkans before 1914 and present an overview of the Balkan Communist States, 1974-1989, with a focus on the country of Slovenia.
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Images and mental maps

TL;DR: The mental map, a special kind of image, does have its functions: it is a mnemonic device; it allows mental practice which promotes assurance in subsequent physical performance; it is an imaginary world, complex and attractive enough to tempt people out of their habitual rounds.