10.2190/0FWJ-0G66-TGHC-LPC6 0FWJ0G66TGHCLPC6 2 A Prototype Urban Environmental Policy Statement 305 310 20020509 20020509 20020509 20020509 0FWJ0G66TGHCLPC6.pdf http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=0FWJ0G66TGHCLPC6 4 Robert H. Giles Division of Forestry and Wildlife Resources, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va <p>Many communities now seek an environmental policy statement to serve as a guide for citizens as well as legislators and administrators. The motivation to gain such guides is a product of rapidly declining¹ quality of the urban milieu,² new perception of the problem by the masses aided by many media, mandates from the urbanizing professions³ and a dawning of the potentials for really doing something about the problems.^4,5</p><p>While policy statements may provide guidance and education for citizens and corporations, its mega-influence may be felt if it suffices in lieu of arduous legislative development or serves as the final criterion for environmental legislation. Such policy statements as goal concepts⁶ can provide the basis and foundation for the urban environmental system. The following prototype of such a policy statement is presented for use and discussion.</p> A. Toffler, <i>Future shock.</i> Random House, New York, New York, 1970. K. Davis, The urbanization of the human population, pp. 267-279, in <i>Man and the ecosphere.</i> W. H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco, Calif., 1971. G. M. McCue, and W. R. Ewald, Jr. <i>Changing the human environment</i>, Univ. Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois, 1970. B. M. Gross, (Ed.), <i>Social intelligence for America's future: explorations in societal problems</i>, Allyn and Bacon, Inc., Boston, Mass., 1969. J. W. Forrester, <i>Urban dynamics</i>, The M. I. T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1969.