Editorial: Current trends in environmental psychology, volume I

This Research Topic on “Current trends in environmental psychology, volume I”, which is linked to the 3rd International Conference of Environmental Psychology (ICEP 2021), held in Siracusa, Italy, 4–9 October 2021, constituted an enormous challenge. Our proposal was aimed to promote an interdisciplinary turnaround in environmental psychological thinking, at a time when major existential challenges posed by the raise of new technologies in everyday life settings (homes, workplaces, hospitals, schools, green areas, urban open spaces), and by the worsening of the global emergency at the planetary level, seem to be at their peak. The still ongoing transformations of human social life induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, and in general different ways of interacting and communicating are bringing about significant changes in terms of models and methodologies in different areas of psychological science, including environmental psychology.