This study examines similarities and differences in environmental values and attitudes between two cultural groups—Chinese in Canada and Anglo-Canadians. The results indicate that Chinese are more supportive of social-altruistic values than are Anglo-Canadians. However, the two groups are not significantly different in biospheric values. Moreover, both groups are significantly different in two of four new environmental paradigm (NEP) subscales— limits to growth and antianthropocentrism—whereas their attitudes toward the other two NEP subscales— eco-crisis and balance-of-nature—are similar. Study results also suggest that biospheric values are closely related to the NEP, whereas social-altruistic values are not. In addition, acculturation does not consistently affect all six subscales, suggesting that Chinese in Canada may have adopted a selective acculturation pattern. Finally, this study's findings also endorse some previous research that proposes that value orientations may be more helpful in understanding environmental concern than sociodemographic variables such as age, education, and income.

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The development of urban stormwater lakes is based primarily on the fact that they offer trbr,unaal capital cost savings over the more traditional urban drainage systems. A contributing factor in their development has been the assumption that stormwater lakes provide a variety of benefits derived from improved recreation opportunities and urban aesthetics. To test this assumption a survey of urban residents living adlacent to the Beaumaris stormwater lake in Edmonton was undertaken. The survey examined the residents'anticipated and actual recreational use of the lake, together with their attitudes towards the lake as a feature of the urban environment. Results of the survey confirmed the assumption that stormwater lakes can provide both recreation and aesthetic benefits for the urban community. Rdsum6'. L'am6nagement de lacs d'eaux pluviales en zone urbaine est fond6 principalement sur le fait que ces lacs permettent d'effectuer d'importantes 6conomies de coOts d'investissement, comparativement aux systdmes de drarnage urbains plus traditionnels. Une hypothese, qui a contribu6 d leur d6veloppement, est que ce genre de lacs fournissent differents avantages relatifs d I'esth6tique urbaine et d des possibilit6s de loisirs am6lior6s. Afin de tester cette hypothdse, on a effectu6 un sondage auprds des r6sidents urbains adjacents au lac d'eau de pluie Beaumaris, d Edmonton. L'6tude a examine I'utilisation r6cr6ative pr6vue et r6elle du lac par les r6sidents, ainsi que I'opinion de ces derniers sur cette installation en tant que caracteristique de I'environnement urbain. Les r6sultats du sondage ont confirm6 I'hypothese que les lacs d'eaux pluviales peuvent fournir d la fois des avantages r6cr6atifs et esthetiques a une communaut6 urbaine. water bodies resulting from this approach are commonly refened to as stormwater lakes. During the last 50 years, stormwater lakes have been successfully developed in a number of countries including Britain, Australia, the United States and Canada, Winnipeg was the first city in Western Canada to develop stormwater lakes when its Southdale subdivision was developed in 1965 (Tottle, 1979). Recently other Western Canadian cities such as Edmonton, Regina and Calgary have demonstrated an interest in stormwater lakes (Michaels, 1983; Michaels, McBean and Mulamoottil, 1985),