* This topic is best viewed as a theme to be used in the delivery of other to pics within ESS * This approach stresses

that there are concepts, techniques, and terms that can be transferred from one discipline (such as ecology) to another (such as eng ineering) * Similarities between environmental systems, biological systems and artifici al entities such as transport and communication systems * Any diagram that describes a specific thing is called a model. A flow chart , is a model of how something wor s. Models cannot be perfect. So you say "this model emphasises..."not"this model shows". * Models