Integration & biocomplexity

Sustainable development (SD) is premised on the inescapable and integral ro le played by humans in shaping and impacting the natural world and has been recognized as a foundational norm of international environmental law and p olicy. Ecologicalism-an outlook that embraces a comprehensive approach to i nterdependent natural and human systems-provides the conceptual underpinnin gs for a creative and integrated environmental management philosophy for im plementing SD, This Article argues that the daunting task of defining and a pplying such an integrated approach and philosophy to the multiple interact ing changes affecting planetary life support systems can benefit from the U .S. experience in addressing the need for integrated pollution control (IPC ). It also contends that the relatively new discipline of Industrial Ecolog y (IE) that pairs industry with ecology offers a promising new system parad igm for analyzing human activity within the biophysical environment, By ent wining humans and their needs with ecosystems, IE does in fact aspire to be come the "science of sustainability."