Contents -- 1. Environment, Cognition, and Action: The Need for Integration -- I: The Impact of the Physical Environment -- 2. Environmental Description and Prediction: A Conceptual Analysis -- 3. Cognition of Physical and Built Environments -- 4. Decision-Making Processes, Choice Behavior, and Environmental Design: Conceptual Issues and Problems of Application -- 5. Searching for the Environment in Environmental Cognition Research -- 6. Environmental Assessment, Cognition, and Action: Research Applications -- II: Psychological Processes -- 7. Environmental Assessment from a Neuropsychological Perspective -- 8. Spatial Cognition as Events -- 9. Beyond Rationality: Clarity-Based Decision Making -- 10. Understanding, Assessing, and Acting in Places: Is an Integrative Framework Possible? -- 11. Conceptualization and Application: Psychological Processes in Environmental Cognition and Assessment -- III: Life-Span Development -- 12. Environmental Assessment Across the Life Span -- 13. Environmental Cognition through Direct and Representational Experiences: A Life-Span Perspective -- 14. Developmental Perspectives on Decision Making and Action in Environments -- 15. Life-Span Changes in Activities, and Consequent Changes in the Cognition and Assessment of the Environment -- 16. Life-Span Developmental Issues in Environmental Assessment, Cognition, and Action: Applications to Environmental Policy, Planning, and Design -- IV: Summary and Conclusion -- 17. From Environmental to Ecological Cognition -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.