Abstract
The research committee on environmental systems, JSCE, established a working group of the research strategies in FY 2004. The working group discussed intensively on the following three issues. 1) The state of the art and the future perspective of environmental systems research, 2) University education on environmental systems, 3) Writing an introductionary book of environmental systems in order to spread the paradigm of environmental systems. This paper introduces the working group activities, and also describes an extraction of the discussion, retrospect, prospects and the future deployment of the environmental systems research.
