Sustainable Environmental Management

Environmental Management generally demands a multidisciplinary approach, and achieving this in a satisfactory manner can be a challenge because suitable supportive systematic frameworks are still being developed. However, there has been progress, and environmental management is acting increasingly as an integrative force, capable of bringing together diverse stakeholders, specialists, levels of administration, different sectors, and even groups of nations, that might otherwise have little inclination to cooperate. It should be noted that a multi-disciplinary approach draws upon various disciplines for information, analytical skills, and insight, but does not seek an integrated understanding. An interdisciplinary approach draws upon common themes and goes beyond close collaboration between different specialists to attempt integration, and is very difficult because it involves blending differently derived concepts. Environmental management demands awareness that issues may be part of complex transnational, even global environmental, economic, and social interactions. Which is likely to be affected by politics, perception, and ethics.

Environmental management seeks to steer the development process to take advantage of opportunities try to avoid hazards, mitigate problems, and prepare people for unavoidable difficulties by improving adaptability and resilience. Environmental management is a process concerned with human-environment interactions and seeks to identify: what is environmentally desirable; what are the physical, economic, social, and technological constraints to achieving that; and what are the most feasible options.