ABSTRACT
A wide variety of what might be termed ‘behavioural’ approaches has come to characterize the study of people–environment interaction in the last three decades. Although varied, this work has in common a focus on:
How individuals come to know the environments with which they interact;
How they differentiate and choose between different locations as places to live, work, play, and shop;
How they develop simplified images of environments which are too big and too complex for them to be known in their entirety;
How knowledge, decision-making strategies, and overall images influence overt (or acted out) behaviour;
How certain parts of the environment come to take on meaning for the people who interact with it.
