Sustainability can be described as finding a suitable regime that supports the social and economic development of humans without major consequences to the environment (land, atmosphere and ocean) and the ecological services on which people depend.

By applying green engineering principles in process and product design one could greatly reduce the human impact on the environment. During the past decade the field of industrial ecology has evolved and it takes a holistic view on industrial sustainabilty.From the process engineering perspective integration of green engineering and industrial ecology principles in the process/product design framework is critcal and extremely challanging. The first part of the poster presents a framework for this integration.

The second part of the poster deals with sustainable environmental management.Here we look at sustainability from a macroscopic systems perspective.We study the comlex relationships,feedbacks and linkages between environmental, economic, ecological, social and climate systems through information theory. Work related climate regime changes etc will be presented