Title :
Systems engineering and management for industrial ecology and sustainable development
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Technol. & Eng., George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA, USA
Abstract :
Sustainable development refers to the fulfilment of human needs through simultaneous socioeconomic and technological progress and conservation of the Earth´s natural systems. Industrial ecology represents one of the major approaches to insure high quality products with resource conservation. This paper discusses the key role of systems engineering and systems management as a provider of the knowledge principles and practices that help realize this integration of economic and environmental efficiency and effectiveness to achieve industrial ecology and sustainable development
Keywords :
ecology; economics; environmental factors; environmental science computing; natural resources; production engineering computing; systems engineering; Earth; environmental efficiency; high quality products; human needs; industrial ecology; resource conservation; socio economic progress; sustainable development; systems engineering; systems management; technological progress; Earth; Engineering management; Environmental economics; Environmental factors; Environmental management; Humans; Knowledge engineering; Knowledge management; Sustainable development; Systems engineering and theory;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1997. Computational Cybernetics and Simulation., 1997 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4053-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1997.626189
