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National environmental legislation, selected listing, p. 406-416. ; Shipping list no.: 92-192-P. ; At head of title: United Nations Conference on Environment & Development. ; Spine title: United States national report, United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, 1992. ; "Compiled in preparation for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 1-12, 1992"--P. 418. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Mode of access: Internet.

It is stated that technological intervention to improve the quality of the environment is an immediate need. The US gov is now organizing its resources to cope with the problems of environment. Proposals for a Dept of the Environment are before Congress. An Environmental Quality Council has been created. Currently, management responsibilities for programs in these areas are diffused among a number of gov agencies. Documentation on society & its environment is needed. Res should not be formulated in terms of physical environmental concepts but in terms of sociol'al concepts. New ways of thinking about soc perception & soc org under changing physical environmental conditions are needed. Talcott Parsons THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION is viewed as providing a theoretical frame of reference for the new thinking needed. The following aspects of the problem are considered: the nature of the environmental threat; society, personality & environmental usufruct; the econ's of common environmental property; emerging environmental law; & organizing for environmental planning. Under these headings, the articles contained in this issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences are briefly summarized & commented upon. It is felt that a re-examination is needed of the forms of public & admin'ive authority & of the types of professional & instit'al competence required to discharge public functions. There is a public demand for collective responsibility. While the individual should accept responsibility for the collective, in his own actions, this may have the unanticipated consequence of extending bodies of law designed to constrain the individual actor to be sensitive to the requirement of general welfare as he uses or enjoys some environmental resource. To stem deterioration of the quality of the environment will require an examination of those rules regulating the relation between individuals & the collective. Modified HA.