Family day care settings vary widely and present difficulties in regulation, but the key to effective service to children in a family care home is the care giver. This paper discusses the requisites of a family care home and the necessary attributes of the care giver. (Author/ST)

Attempts to define the characteristics of an adequate general education program in environmental problem solving and speculates as to the role of science understandings'' in the development of this problem-solving facility. (Author/DF)

Schools must be considered as designed environments where individuals should be given maximum opportunity to engage in task activities with a minimum of adverse influences from elements in the designed surroundings. (Author)

Special architectural additions to campuses can enable handicapped persons to attend college as normal individuals. (HS)

The author takes a critical look at the vogue of futurism, its goals, and its requirements. (AN)

The author offers a set of principles in the form of a code in an attempt to strengthen the relationship between the physical environment and the learning process. (HS)

Presents an 11-point agenda for a new assertion of peoples' environmental rights. (MF)

Introductory college physical geography courses can be made more relevant by starting with environmental problems of social concern and going on pertinent subject matter to explain the problems. The implications of a problems approach to teaching-learning processes are also discussed. (NH)

The difference between day and night seems to have been almost completely overlooked in environmental studies. Suggests incorporating day/night phenomena/activities (from biological, psychological, and social points of view) in studies on environmental perception and on human behavior and environmental responses. (Author/JN)

Highlights a two-day international public hearing on the environment recently held in London (England). The hearing brought together approximately 100 environmental politicians, scientists, and other experts from all over the world. These experts are now optimistic that there will be no major environmental catastrophe within the next 20 years.…

Referring to cognitive competence as a collective term of cognitive behavior as considered by Piaget and Hunt, a theoretical frame of reference based on Brunswik's unit and Wohlwill's conceptions of the environment as a source of stimulation versus the environment as a context for behavior is discussed. (Author)

Details the results of a large-scale field study aimed at testing two theories on human crowding. Found that psychological factors are increasingly important for the prediction of crowding as one moved from the immediate residence to the less immediate city level. Implications, limitations and further results are discussed. (Author/MA)