A National Academy of Sciences study for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will provide insights into the acquisition and utilization of scientific and technical information for making environmental regulatory decisions. The output of EPA's decision-making process will be analyzed through a series of case studies. (BT)

Included are 32 of the 73 papers presented at the 1978 conference of the National Association for Environmental Education. The papers are organized into seven sections. The first section contains a single paper on environmental ethics. The other six sections are on international environmental education, energy, systems, environmental studies,…

ENVIRONMENT CAN BE DESCRIBED AS A STIMULUS FIELD TO WHICH THE SUBJECT RESPONDS WITH THE SUBJECT'S BEHAVIOR ALSO BECOMING AN ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR. ITS RELATIONSHIP TO LEARNING CAN BE ESTABLISHED BY SPECIFIC CASE STUDIES THAT ANALYZE THE PARTICULAR ENVIRONMENT, THE PARTICULAR LEARNER (OR GROUP OF LEARNERS), AND THE PARTICULAR LEARNING ACTIVITY.…

The purpose of this study is to evaluate existing manual methods for analyzing asbestos, beryllium, lead, cadmium, selenium, and mercury, and from this evaluation to provide the best and most practical set of analytical methods for measuring emissions of these elements from stationary sources. The work in this study was divided into two phases.…

The United States Environmental Protection Agency was created by Presidential order in December of 1970. This order brought together 15 programs scattered among several Federal Government agencies to mount a coordinated attack on environmental problems. These problems include air and water pollution, solid waste management, pesticides, radiation,…

During his postdoctoral fellowship year, Dr. Rand taught a course on psychology and the physical environment at the Columbia University School of Architecture, worked with the New York City Office of West-Midtown Planning, completed a conceptual design of urban housing, and obtained support for a 3-year study of the fellowship between housing…

The Theory of Work Adjustment is based on the concept of correspondence between individual and environment. Achieving and maintaining correspondence with the environment are basic motives of human behavior. Work represents a major environment to which most individuals must relate. Correspondence is then the individual fulfilling the requirements…

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether sport preference is a random phenomenon or a phenomenon related to specific factors in the background and environment of the participant. In addition, the study explored the feasibility of forming a framework for the systematic analysis of this phenomenon by interrelating findings from…

This survey presents the highlights (not an inventory) of the environmental studies, capabilities, and instrumentalities on the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) campuses. The CIC institutions include the University of Illinois, Indiana University, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of…

This publication is intended to develop a baseline publication on the quality of human environment and is designed to point out some crucial issues that must be considered in relation to the environmental management issue. Part I includes four articles. The first suggests man's role in relation to ecological science. The second is study of the…

In-house and extramural research being conducted under the Federal Interagency Energy/Environment Research and Development Program was described at the recent National Conference on Health, Environmental Effects, and Control Technology on Energy Use. Programs to develop control technology and survey health and ecological effects are now underway.…

This study investigated the hypothesis that low reading achievement may be related to noise interference. Reading scores of children in classrooms near train tracks were lower than scores of children whose classrooms were quieter. Score differences may be due to children's blockage of all sounds in a noisy environment. (Author/MR)

Techniques in geochemistry continue to improve in sensitivity and scope. The exciting areas of geochemistry still include the classical fields of the origin of the elements and objects in space, but environmental crisis problems are important as well. (Author/BB)

It was found that there were differences in students' perception of their schools' environment when schools were classified as either large or small. Large elementary schools seemed to have less influence on students' perception than did small schools. Students in small schools perceived a closer, warmer relationship with their schools. (Author/NQ)

Reports the results of an international census of tropical ecologists. The report is an attempt to overcome communication problems among researchers. (BB)