Abstract
As the result of mass production, mass consumption, and mass disposal socioeconomic system, excessive consumption of energy and natural resources, heavy emission of greenhouse gas, and heavy output of waste materials have been brought. The purpose of socio-environmental management is to decrease the burden of business activities on the environment. Institutes or companies are expected to cope with the introduction of building systems for socio-environmental management to comply with the tacit requests of society. Systematic procedures such as Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA) and EcoAction 21 of Japan are effective as powerful tools for environmental management, especially considering greenhouse gas emissions and energy/materials balance.
