The Committee of Environmental Engineering of Polish Academy of Sciences
The committee scope of work includes technical discipline, based on the use of engineering methods for preserving, shaping and protection of the environment, developed on the basis of technical, natural, legal and economic sciences. It forms a basis for both rational management of natural resources and for forecasting, assessment, prevention, and repair of effects of human activities.
Environmental engineering is shaping appropriate technical conditions and methods for the maintenance of natural environment in ecological balance, and restoring such balance in the case of devastation caused by natural disasters, improperexploitation of minerals, economic activities, etc.
By this environmental engineering is including sustainable development principle, which is the basic one, since on its realisation depends living conditions of present and future generations. The committee was established in 1982.