10.2190/QUPL-QJ1X-CY3D-H69N QUPLQJ1XCY3DH69N 6 Environmental Management 289 302 20020509 20020509 20020509 20020509 QUPLQJ1XCY3DH69N.pdf http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=QUPLQJ1XCY3DH69N 3 David J. Etzold Charles A. Welsh Rollins College Approaches toward solving current and future environmental problems require intelligible inputs from the disciplines of management and economics, as well as those from the physical and biological sciences. Appropriate cost and benefit considerations must be taken into account in both the short and long runs. Any environmental problem which can be defined can be studied as a system, and alternatives proposed with a proper mix to enhance optimum and realistic solutions. For an extended discussion of the points raised here, see <i>Business in Brief</i>, October and December, 1970, New York. Harold Koontz and Cyril O'Donnell, <i>Principles of Management</i>, 4th Ed., McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1968, p. 6. Ibid., p. 47. Ibid., pp. 639-640. Sanford Rose, The Economics of Environmental Quality, <i>Fortune</i>, pp. 120-122, Feb., 1970. F. Y. Edgeworth, <i>Mathematical Psychics.</i> (See also, J. Laird, <i>The Idea of Value.</i>) D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, <i>On Growth and Form</i>, p. 19.