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The article examines the relationship between environmental awareness and activities using psychological, situational, and environmental values as predictors within a conceptual framework. This method is applied to waste minimization in United Kingdom residential areas, and implications for public policy-making are discussed.

This paper examines some problems involved in the provision of female sterilization procedures in Brazil, mainly those concerned with the ways in which this operation is offered. Female sterilization provision is analysed by reference to the broader institutional context and from the client's perspectives. Theses themes are discussed in the light of some recent survey findings. A survey was carried out between March and July, 1992 in two selected poor areas of Sao Paulo Metropolitan Region. 3149 women were asked about contraceptive use including 407 sterilized women under 40 years old who were also interviewed about their adaptation to sterilization. Further information was also obtained through in-depth interviews with 15 sterilized women who regretted the operation. The findings highlight a complex network of interests and misunderstandings which shape the nature of choice of female sterilization by Brazilian low income women. Key words - family planning, female sterilization, reproductive rights and ethics

Sexuality is clearly a key, if often neglected, dimension for both population and medical geography. The challenge of HIV prevention has given rise to research efforts to understand the pattern and dynamics of sexual lifestyles. This paper reports upon findings from such a study undertaken upon the socio-sexual lifestyles of youth (18-24 years of age) from factory (low-income) and university (middle class) social environments in urban Central Java, Indonesia. The study involved a combination of quantitative (2000 person sample survey) and qualitative (8 focus group discussions and 15 in-depth interviews) methods, with data collected from 2003-2004. Analysis of the basic sexual parameters reveals relatively low levels of pre-marital sexual experience, but (of concern) very low levels of contraceptive precautions within such activity. The main part of the paper concerns a discussion of a range of young men and women's socio-sexual lifestyles (identified by cluster analysis). The core Javanese concept of gaul is explored in discriminating different global/traditional orientations. The lifestyles are interpreted in terms of the reflexivity of leisure activities, taste and dress, within the broader contexts of Javanese culture and the social transition occurring in the Republic of Indonesia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]