The adverse environmental risks and problems the country is facing necessitate a drive for environmental management toward sustainable development. This depends on extensive public awareness and understanding, adoption of new values and changes in attitudes towards the preservation of our natural and agricultural resources.

Responding to the call for conservation and management of the natural environment, the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs of the Central Luzon State University proposed the creation of the Environmental Management Institute (EMI). The CLSU Board of Regents approved the establishment of the EMI on March 11, 1997.