The Role of the Environmental Engineers in Environmental Sustainability
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Abstract
Environmental degradation has been caused by human activities in order to achieve his developmental needs. This paper examines the role of professionals and professional organizations in environmental sustainability; with specific attention to the role of the environmental engineers in environmental sustainability. Examination of environmental engineering and the environmental engineer was made; some human activities and their consequences on the environment which lead to environmental unsustainability were explained. Sustainable development is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The environmental engineer remains the vehicle to bring about environmental sustainability by some of the following ways; devising and promoting concepts of eco-design and resource efficiency, delivering solutions for corporate and regional sustainability and low carbon economy; improving ways of assessing and treating contamination at polluted sites; devising recycling systems and developing uses for recycled materials, and reducing the volumes of solid and hazardous waste through conservation.