EDITORS INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE - BEHAVIORAL ORIGINS AND SOLUTIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL-PROBLEMS

With this special issue, CJBS joins several journals in focussing on e nvironmental problems and their relation to human behaviours. The six research papers by Canadian researchers in this issue are grouped into three areas: environmentally responsible behaviours, managed resource use, and community problems. An invited essay by the Minister of Envi ronment, the Honourable Sergio Marchi, P.C., M.P., concludes this issu e with a call for psychological research targeted to the needs of poli cymakers and legislators. This introduction sets these articles in the context of environmental psychology research, defined as a perspectiv e on psychological research in which the focus is on transactions betw een people and their physical surroundings.