What are some goals of environmental science?

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_science

Answer 2

The goal of any science is to understand relationships, cause, sufficent knowledge to organize information and operation of the system.

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=science

In many years earlier, the word understand was emphasized, now the word hypothesis is often emphasized.