ABSTRACT
Environmental management aims at rationally dealing with man’s interaction with the environment—mainly with the decrease of the environmental impact that human activity entails. Environmental management presupposes the recognition of the dynamic function of ecosystems; it includes the organization of regulations so that the preservation of their important characteristics may be achieved and also the modification of their structure and function may be under scientific and social control. Assessment of the environmental state and its impacts can be performed on the basis of data from measurement networks, observations, statistics or inventories. Life cycle analysis includes a series of methods for the detection, assessment and wherever possible, quantification of environmental consequences of a product, a work, a process or activity for the duration of its life.
