Summary: Pending

 Walter Bogan, head of Office of Environmental Education, U.S. Dept of Education,  was the sponsor of an environmental education research project led by Warfield from the University of Virginia, in the seventies. As a development of the RELS concept, Christakis and Bogan wrote a description of how ISM was used in group sessions composed of environmentalists, decision-makers and educators to explore and identify the mission and operational objectives of the Regional Environmental Learning System idea. Their paper, titled "The Concept of the Regional Environmental Learning System" was presented at a conference in Tokyo in November 1978, and published in an IEEE journal. (IEEE-SMC, Proc. ICCS, Tokyo, Nov. 3-8, 1978, pages 1001-1007) That IEEE Journal article is now in the IASIS Files, in Monterrey, Mexico and at DSMC Library in Fort Belvoir, Virginia.