Environmental Management

Environmental management is concerned with understanding the structure and the functioning of the earth, and how humans fit in. Being multifaceted, environmental management is about predicting future environmental changes, maximizing human benefit whilst minimizing environmental degradation. Decision making, and the political aspects of this, also play a huge role.

The process of environmental management involves:

• Identifying the environmental desired outcomes
• Identifying the physical, economic, social, cultural, political and technological constraints on obtaining these outcomes
• Considering the most feasible options for achieving the desired outcomes
• Anticipating, avoiding, and solving environmental and conservation issues

In regards to its multidisciplinary nature, environmental management includes a diverse set of groups. For example academics, policy-makers, non-governmental organization (NGO) workers, company employees, and civil servants. This multidisciplinary nature also means that its practice includes both you and me. Our actions, along with every other human on this planet, have some sort of environmental impact.