Gary W. Evans & Tommy Garling: Environment, Cognition, and Action; PART I: THE IMPACT OF THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT: Rachel Kaplan: Environmental description and prediction: A conceptual analysis; Reginald G. Golledge: Cognition of physical and built environments; Harry Timmermans: Decision making processes, choice behavior, and environmental design: conceptual issues and problems of application; Craig Zimring and Mark Gross: Searching for the environment in environmental cognition research; Ervin H. Zube: Environmental assessment, cognition, and action: Research applications; PART II: PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESSES: Rikard Kuller: Environmental assessment from a neurospsychological perspective; Anders Book: Spatial cognition as events; Stephen Kaplan: Beyond rationality: clarity-based descision making; David Canter: Understanding, assessing, and acting in places: is an integrative framework possible?; Gerald D. Weisman: Conceptualization and application: Psychological processes in environmental cognition and assessment; PART III: LIFE-SPAN DEVELOPMENT: Giovanna Axia, Erminielda Mainardi Peron, and Maria Rosa Baroni: Environmental assessment across the life-span; Lynn S. Liben: Environmental cognition through direct and representational experiences: a life-span perspective; Roger A. Hart and Michael K. Conn: Developmental perspectives on action in environments; Christopher Spencer: Life-span changes in activities, and consequent changes in the cognition and assessment of the environment; Gary T. Moore: Life-span development: applications to environmental policy, planning, and design; PART IV: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION: Tommy Garling, Erik Lindberg, Gunilla Torell and Gary W. Evans: From environmental to ecological cognition.