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The article presents a conceptual framework regarding the development of art education in environmental design. It presupposes that these environmental models should be thoroughly developed into systems for comparative purposes based on specific contexts of information and understanding along with various distinctive scales of perception. In addition, it explains that these macro-economic scales of perception are vague and are loosely used for purposes of learning and teaching. Lastly, it cautions that there is no single scale of observation in terms of environmental design but there are scales of perception.

The article examines the cost involved in the conservation of natural resources. To settle for the conservation policy, both political and economic aspects must be put into consideration. Given its present geographical settings, the people of the United States apparently have little to fear from foreign aggression, if the average wealth and prosperity of the inhabitants is maintained unimpaired. Given the particular assumption, and assuming further that we immigration will be shut off, one might proceed with a rigorous conservation policy without fear of placing any considerable burden upon the shoulders of the present or to the future heirs of civilization and without danger of materially lowering the standards of comfort.

This article focuses on the role of public administration in improving environmental quality. Despite the rising national and international concern over the deterioration of the environment there has been an institutional and political lag. Public administration theory and practice has hardly faced up to the problem of environmental management, except for repeating the traditional dogmas. Few middle-level theories or administrative models which would be of aid in the control and abatement of pollution, for example, have been proposed. The article presents a brief survey or situation paper on the environmental crisis and an analysis of the slow response of public policy and institutions to the challenge. A wide and diffuse range of concerns is subsumed under the subject heading of environmental problems. Besides air, water, noise, and solid waste pollution, this term often is expanded to include other amenities of life such as beautification, reacreation, and at times urban structure and stress, transportation, food and drugs, even population problems.

The article presents a futuristic analysis pertaining to man's social settings in the coming years taking into a serious discussion the environmental, technological, and educational aspects. Historically, technology has opened several portals of man's choices which have brought both advantages and disadvantages. It has contributed to the efficiency of man's lifestyle yet some cause devastation to the environment. Technology has already penetrated into the very fabric of human society including the field of education. Nowadays, school administrators have employed technological advancements in various educational programs. Nevertheless, the use of advance devices in education should not be allowed without prior approval from the right authority.

The Law and the Legal Process are important ingredients in any attempt to insert "Quality of Life" inputs within an environmental control system. This paper discusses the interface between Environmental Concern and the Legal Process. It does not focus on current legislative enactments and proposals but rather upon the ontological constraints. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper emphasizes the need to bring environmental health into the framework of comprehensive health planning. The author discusses how this can be done. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the findings of the study titled "Institutions for Effective Management of the Environment," conducted by the National Academy of Sciences study group composed of scientists and engineers, as well as economists and lawyers, in the U.S. It notes that the group recommends a program for effective management of the environment in dealing with environmental problems. The group further recommends that a comprehensive environmental monitoring program must be carried out by a new independent federal agency or one existing agency. They found out that effective monitoring of the environment must include development of appropriate environmental quality indexes.

The author offers his views regarding the aesthetic aspects of the environment in order to combat environmental pollution in the U.S. According to him, good architectural planning may contribute how people interact with nature by capturing its likeness and mood to keep an individual's sense of balance. He also suggests that people should preserve historical buildings, sites and districts that link to their heritage and strengthen their love for the environment.

The article focuses on the Project Eagle developed by the group of scientists in the U.S. The project which modeled after the Office of Science Research and Development will be the first phase of the interinstitutional and interdisciplinary research and development for environmental rehabilitation issues. It will be financed and managed by the National Trust for the Environment and supported by the American industry. Project Eagle is also considered as an alternative way of completing the intervention of the government in making effective solutions for the environmental crisis.