Mission to support the development of principles and practices for protection, enhancement, and management of sustainable environmental quality and ecosystem integrity worldwide, and to propagate and facilitate the translation of environmental science into policy-making. Goals • To promote research, education, communication, and training in the environmental sciences. • To promote application of interdisciplinary environmental sciences in managing environmental stressors. • To participate in scientific interpretation and communication of exposure to and effects of environmental stressors, ecological risk assessment and management, and global environmental solutions. • To provide forums for interactions among professionals on a multisector, interdiciplanary, and multinational basis. • To develop principles and practices for sustainable environments, considering appropriate ecological, economic, and social factors.