... in the built environment e.g. safety signs and fire effluents. Sime (1999) encapsulated his view of EP in a review essay entitled "What is Environmental Psychology? Texts, Content and Context" in which he acknowledges that EP "is many things" but more pointedly states that, "The subtitle of this essay might have been 'In Search of a Theory' or a defining paradigm". Sime's Approach Sime was among a number of researchers in the 1970s who, as a result of their 'people-based' studies in distinct but related fields, believed that, in order to properly determine the conditions necessary for a safe evacuation, a full appreciation of the interactions between the fire, its location and the affected people must be the target for which researchers must aim. Sime later identified the 3 relevant factors as: the Fire, the Setting and the Occupancy (the F-S-O relationship) (Sime, 2001). One of the key features of his ...

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