She is currently involved in a U.N. university project, which looks specifically at how the U.N. deals with environmental issues. Chasek's environmental management courses are important for SIPA students for various reasons. If you are interested in development, you can't leave out the environmental impacts of development. If you are in business or industry you can't deal in a vacuum. There is only a finite supply of natural resources.
Nothing can function without the natural resource base domestic or international.
What industrial ecology represents is the beginning of an effort to understand the environment strategically. From 1995 to 1997, Allenby was the Director for Energy and Environmental Systems at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.