ABSTRACT
There is substantial overlap between the work of environmental engineers and environmental planners. Environmental planners need to know how to calculate the economic value of environmental "costs" and "benefits". As educators try to anticipate the demands on environmental planners, half-dozen trends seem worth noting. The shift away from command-and-control approaches to environmental regulation is likely to continue, especially in the United States, where that approach probably has achieved most of what it was designed to accomplish. As academic departments offering professional training become increasingly practice oriented, they should not abandon their research orientation. Environmental planning needs a research agenda, particularly one that looks at the relative effectiveness of different techniques and strategies for implementing environmental policy. Environmental planners working at the national level are usually expected to be both more technically specialized and more adept politically.
