ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS THEORY

Environmental Systems Management is the management of environmental problems at the systems level fully accounting for the multi-dimensional nature of the environment.

This includes socio-economic dimensions as well as the usual physical and life science aspects. This is important because all environmental problems are multidimensional in both a causative and a symptomatic sense.

The mission of the Environmental Systems Management Research Program at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is, therefore, to construct a strategy for sustainable environmental management that coherently...