By focusing on career development research concerning adolescents and young adults, this study illustrates the way in which Bronfenbrenner's ecological model is useful in providing a framework for career development research. (PN)

This paper is concerned with problems in assessing the behavior of trace substances introduced into natural systems, sampling models of five classes that might be used in the study of contaminants are reviewed. Adaptation of an industrial experimentation method and techniques used in economic geology to ecological sampling is recommended.…

Through their environments, children are exposed to a wide variety of substances that provide a risk to children's health. This report provides information to the public on the work of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) related to children's health protection, summarizing initiatives undertaken since the publication of "The EPA…

The Methods Standardization Branch of the Environmental Protection Agency, National Environmental Research Center, has undertaken a program to standardize methods used in measuring air pollutants covered by the national primary and secondary air quality standards. This paper presents the results of a collective test of the method specified for…

Discusses a conference held to develop ways of generalizing about the man-environment interaction by considering this interaction cross-culturally. Presentations consider human characteristics, environments, mechanisms linking people and environments, and the effect of environment on people. (Author/DN)

The broad objective of this study then, is to attempt to discover whether a set of environmental variables presumably of significance for cognitive growth, generates similar factor structures across groups of varying socioeconomic status. (Author)

Describes results of efforts to seek effective ways of combining the knowledge and skill of different professions in alleviating environmental problems. An inter-society liaison committee on the environment was formed to implement the general philosophical goals of the conference. (EB)

Use of insecticides has been questioned due to their harmful effects on edible items. Biological control of insects along with other effective practices for checking spread of parasites on crops are discussed. (PS)

Environmental problems are complex and attempts to solve these require expertise from many areas. Authors describe strategies evolved to solicit cooperation from fifteen departments in a university, city government, and a regional planning agency for solving environmental problems. (PS)

Presents the pressures within the University of Michigan that lead to the separation of a research center that had been conducting classified military research, (see SE 506 558). Examines the consequences for the university, including likely future relationships with the federal government. (AL)

Describes the planning and the foreign students' evaluation of an experimental interdisciplinary course in international environmental problems. (IR)