The National Environmental Education and Training Foundation (NEETF) commissioned the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) to prepare this report in order to provide the education community and the American public with information about successful environment-based education programs in the nation's schools. The report…

Discusses the influence of tradition in science on selection of scientific problems and methods and on the use of concepts as tools for research work. Indicates that future research studies will be directed toward the change of fundamental concepts in such fields as astrophysics, molecular biology, and environmental science. (CC)

Discusses research on man-environment relations and initiates the process of formulating a research paradigm for studying environmental moves and readjustments. Uses a renovated academic center as a specimen case. (JR)

Summarizes discussions made at the first National Conference on Standards for Environmental Improvement. Indicates the presence of contradictions between industry and governmental agencies in terms of current environmental standards and their congressionally mandated deadlines as well as interpretation of environmental research data. (CC)

The Regional Air Pollution Study (RAPS) to be conducted in St. Louis, is the largest air monitoring program of the Environmental Protection Agency. A key segment will be the collection of a data base on which this system of mathematical models can be tested and upon which submodels can be validated. (BL)

Changing environmental attitudes from an economic to a moral orientation are discussed in terms of the activation of moral norms to guide and evaluate behavior. (DM)

Effective measures in the field of the conservation of nature can at present only be envisaged within the broader context of land-use management. (Author)

The primary characteristic of the experimental treatment in this study is that the treatment structures a problem-environment in which academic learning is relevant'' and functional. The child acquires skills and concepts in the process of solving a problem he wants to solve. (Authors/CB)

Data collected at projected space station will contribute to solution of environmental problems on earth and will enable more efficient use of earth's natural resources. Adapted from commencement address delivered at Newark College of Engineering, June 5, 1969. (WM)

Describes an investigation which was designed to probe the extent to which environmentally concerned citizens share general patterns of ideological and demographic characteristics. Discusses implications, in terms of need to unify a diverse constituency, so as to strengthen the ecology movement. (LK)

Suggests that human survival is the organizing principle with which to restore America's fractionated universities. (Author)