1 Children and the Natural Environment -- Children: A Historical Note -- Natural Environment -- Man-Environment Relationships -- Cognition and Behavior -- Childhood and Nature -- The Wild Child -- Inner-City Children and Nature -- Natural Environment and Learning -- Typewriter and Learning: A Contrast -- Expanding World -- Animism, Artificialism, and Scale -- Play and Playthings -- Children, Animals, and Plants -- Learning about the Natural Environment -- American Children and the Natural Environment -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- 2 Children’s Home Environments: Social and Cognitive Effects -- Home as a Source of Stimulation -- Social Organization of Home Environments -- Directions for Future Research -- References -- 3 Childhood Outdoors: Toward a Social Ecology of the Landscape -- Comparative Significance of Indoors and Outdoors -- Outdoor Behavior-Environment Concepts -- Place -- The Co-Action of Range, Place, and Pathway -- Conclusions and Future Directions -- References -- 4 School Environments -- Environments in Early Childhood -- Environments in Elementary Schools -- High School and University Environments -- The “Questionnaire Environments” -- Directions for Research -- References -- 5 Childhood and Privacy -- A Perspective for Understanding Privacy -- The Environmental Dimension of Privacy -- Conclusions and Implications -- References -- 6 Stalking the Elusive Cognitive Map: The Development of Children’s Representations of Geographic Space -- The Development of Cognitive Maps -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 7 Children as Environmental Planners -- Developmental Studies -- Spatial Planning Model -- General Conclusions -- References.

In the first two volumes of the series we elected to cover a broad spectrum of topics in the environment and behavior field, ranging from theoretical to applied, and including disciplinary, interdiscipli­ nary, and professionally related topics. Chapters in these earlier vol­ umes dealt with leisure and recreation, the elderly, personal space, aesthetics, energy, behavioral approaches to environmental problems, methodological issues, social indicators, industrial settings, and the like. Chapters were written by psychologists, sociologists, geogra­ phers, and other social scientists, and by authors from professional design fields such as urban planning, operations research, landscape architecture, and so on. Our goal in these first two volumes was to present a sampling of areas in the emerging environment and behavior field and to give readers some insight into the diversity of research and theoretical perspectives that characterize the field. Beginning with the present volume, our efforts will be directed at a series of thematic volumes. The present collection of chapters is focused on children and the environment, and, as much as possible, we invited contributions that reflect a variety of theoretical and em­ pirical perspectives on this topic. The next volume in the series, now in preparation, will address the area of "culture and the environment. " Suggestions for possible future topics are welcome. Irwin Altman Joachim F.

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