Acquiring knowledge about risk factors of an environmental hazard and the proper behavioral responses to such hazards.

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Behaviors that can be conceptualized as health behaviors, wherein people avoid harmful effects of the environment by adapting to environmental issues. These behaviors can be categorized into three groups: 1. Information seeking 2. Preparative actions 3. Protective actions

Adaptation behaviors

Inauen, J., Contzen, N., Frick, V., Kadel, P., Keller, J., Kollmann, J., Mata, J., & van Valkengoed, A. M. (2021). Environmental issues are health issues: Making a case and setting an agenda for environmental health psychology. European Psychologist, 26(3), 219–229. https://doi-org.libezproxy2.syr.edu/10.1027/1016-9040/a000438

Environmental Issues Are Health
Issues: Making a Case and Setting an Agenda for Environmental
Health Psychology

Adaptation behavior: information seeking

Structural procedures to make prior to an environmental hazard, as to lessen the impact on overall health and safety. 

Adaptation behavior: Preparative actions

Behaviors to protect against the fallout of an ongoing hazard. (Ex. Wearing gas masks in heavily polluted air). 

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