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Peer reviewedHorayangkura, Vimolsiddhi – Environment and Behavior, 1978
Presents a methodological attempt to discover the fundamental semantic dimensions underlying people's perceptions of the physical environment, applying both nonverbal and verbal techniques. Analyses reveal three significant dimensions upon which people base their judgments of the physical environment: evaluation, urbanization, and organization.…
Descriptors: Behavior, Environmental Influences, Evaluation, Physical Environment
Download full textJacobsen, Chanoch; Avi-Itzhak, Tamar – 1975
The care or neglect which people bestow on the appearance and cleanliness of the public places in which they live and work is the central focus of this paper. Basically the phenomenon that is studied is that encountered when people who are usually law abiding, orderly, and responsible citizens deviate from the prescribed and insituttionalized…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Community Characteristics, Environmental Influences, Group Norms
Leedy, Daniel L.; Adams, Lowell W. – 1984
This guide is designed to provide interested citizens (including homeowners, youths, and community leaders) with guidance and ideas on how to plan and manage for urban and suburban wildlife. In addition, it suggests how to enhance recreational, aesthetic, educational, and economic benefits associated with good diversified habitats and sound fish…
Descriptors: Animals, Conservation Education, Conservation (Environment), Environmental Education
MCGRAW, EUGENE T. – 1967
PART OF A KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SERIES ON COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, THIS MONOGRAPH DESCRIBES AND DEFINES THE NATURE OF URBAN CENTERS AS PHYSICAL ENTITIES. BASIC LAND USE CATEGORIES AND SUBDIVISIONS, FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATIONS OF COMMUNITIES IN THE UNITED STATES (MANUFACTURING, RETAIL, WHOLESALE, DIVERSIFIED, TRANSPORTATION, MINING,…
Descriptors: Business, Community Action, Community Development, Community Problems
Buck, Roy C., Ed.; Lyons, William E., Ed. – 1966
Numerous readings on the urbanizing society are presented, with guidelines for study and discussion, session by session. The first three sessions cover community development as a point of view and problems of a changing economic base--fixed human and nonhuman assets as aids and obstacles, and a realistic policy of industrial development. Two…
Descriptors: City Government, Community, Community Action, Community Development
Peer reviewedArbona, Sonia I.; Hunter, John M. – Journal of Geography, 1995
Presents the results of a field study done on 7 wells providing 37% of the total aquifer production for 4 municipalities in Puerto Rico. Each sampled well showed signs of contamination by heavy metals, nitrate, and semivolatile organic compounds. Although found in low concentrations, current development threatens groundwater quality. (MJP)
Descriptors: Chemical Analysis, Drinking Water, Ecological Factors, Ecology
