近20多年来系统科学及系统工程在我国得到高度重视和迅速发展，资源系统工程管理是其在资源领域的交叉学科新分支。面对世界和我国人口膨胀、环境污染、生态退化和技术迅猛发展的现实，有必要在更大的系统中建立一门不同于以前以机械承载能力为基础的工程管理学。这就是以自然资源系统承载能力为基础的、有一系列新理念的资源系统工程管理学，用来全面、协调、可持续地解决上述问题。在资源系统工程中可能不出现大坝等巨型标志建筑，工程中也包括体制、经济、技术和生态等非传统工程手段，但能更科学地解决问题。已经制定并正在执行的《21世纪初期首都水资源规划》就是这样一个例子。

In recent two decades, systematic science and system engineering received much attention and developed quickly in China. Systematic engineering management of resources(SEMR) is a new branch of interdisciplinary in the field of resources. Facing with the reality of population expansion, environmental pollution, ecological deterioration as well as fast development of technologies both in the world and China, it is necessary to establish the systematic engineering management of resources with a series of new conceptions, with is based on carrying capacity of natural resources, and is different from traditional engineering management which is based on mechanical carrying capacity, in order to deal with the above mentioned problems in an all-round, harmonious and sustainable way. Although immense building like water dam may not appear, systematic engineering management of resources includes comprehensive non-traditional engineering approaches like institution, economy, technology and ecology, and can solve the problems more scientifically. “Beijing water resources management Plan” (BWRMP) in the 21st century is a real example of application of the systematic engineering management of resources.