Environmental The harmful effects

Issues of human activity on

The Deadly Reason the biophysical
environment.
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Learning Objectives:

• Identify current environmental

problems and be able to propose
sustainable solutions for them.
• Be familiarized with key
environmental management
practices and policies in the
Philippines.
• Be able to associate and apply
learned environmental
management practices and policies
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to current environmental problems.
Major Problems

Climate
v
Natural Water v Change:
v v Biodiversity
v v v Pollution
v v
Disasters Quality
v v and Global
v Loss
v andv Impact
v
Availability
v v v Warming
v v of Energy
v
Technology
v v

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POPULATION GROWTH

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Major
Solutions

Sustainable Planting Conservatio

Goals n and
Preservatio
n

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Environmental
Management and
Policies
Environmental Management
What is Environmental Why it is necessary?
Management?
• Environmental • Considering the welfare of future
management is required for generations, proper decisions
development without destruction regarding the use of
or overuse of natural resources environment are necessary
and to reduce pollution and
degradation of nature.

• Environmental management is not easy

to define. As Barrow (2005) has
acknowledged, it can refer to a goal or
vision, attempts to steer a process,
to the application of a set of tools, to a
philosophical exercise seeking to
establish new perspectives towards
the environment and human societies,
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and to much more besides.
Environmental Management: it’s Characteristics and
Objectives
Time has now come when our policy
The characteristic features of makers as well as society should aim
the environmental to protect, conserve and regulate the
management are: development in such a way that it will
1. It deals with a world affected not create any adverse effect on
by humans; ecosystem and needs of the people can
also be fulfilled.
2. It supports sustainable Throughout the world, particularly
development; in developing countries, these are
3. It demands a multidisciplinary an urgent need for the
approach; management of the total
4. It has to integrate different environment.
development viewpoints; In the first instance
5. It concerns with short-term environmental management
and long-term planning as must do three things:
well as from local to global (i) Identify goals;
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(ii) Establish whether these can be
Environmental Management: it’s Characteristics and
Objectives
A simple scheme for environmental
Thus, environmental management is an
management has been depicted by
approach which integrates ecology, policy
environmentalists: making, planning and social development.
Its main objectives include:
1. To prevent and solve environmental
problems;
2. To establish limits;
3. To develop research institutions and
monitoring systems;
4. To warn threats and identify opportunities;
5. To suggest measures for resource
conservation;
6. To develop a strategy for the improvement of
quality of life;
7. To suggest long-term and short-term policies
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for sustainable development; and
Environmental Management
Who is responsible for EM?
Environmental managers are a From another point of view,
diverse group of people environmental management may
including: be defined as a process concerned
• Academics with human-environment
interactions which seeks to
• Policy-makers identify:
• Non-governmental o what are environmentally
organisation (NGO) workers desirable outcomes
• Company employees o what are the physical, economic,
• Civil servants and a wide social, cultural, political and
range of individuals or groups technological constraints to
who make decisions about achieving those outcomes
the use of natural resources o what are the most feasible
(such as fishers, farmers and options for achieving those
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pastoralists). outcomes
 GIVE ME Give me the five
managers responsible

FIVE! for environmental

management

Academics, Policy-makers, NGOs, Company Employees, Civil Servants

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Environmental
Management and
the Legislative
Control in the
Philippines Today
Brief Summary

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Background
As with other Southeast Asian
nations, the Philippines is
experiencing rapid population
growth in its urban and rural areas.
The air is being polluted, rivers and
inland waters in urban areas are
suffering water pollution, waste
products are increasing in volume
and creating environmental
pollution resulting from their
disposal, and natural environments
are increasingly under threat.
These are the environmental
problems the country is confronting
and their resolution is a pressing
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task.
Legislation equivalent to the Philippines Basic
Environment Law
It deals with environmental issues Under the administration of
in general are the Presidential President Aquino, who took
Decree 1151: the Philippine office in 1986, a new constitution
Environmental Policy, and the was adopted and environmental
Presidential Decree 1152, the rights became part of
Philippine Environmental Code, constitutional rights. In this regard,
both adopted under the Marcos the basic principles enshrined in
regime in 1977. the Presidential Decrees 1151
and 1152 were upheld.
However, these environmental
laws had shortcomings: for With respect to the environmental
example, multiple executive bodies administrative system, the
were designated to be in charge of DENR was put in sole
one specific problem, creating charge, and the environmental
reduplication and necessitating laws are now undergoing review in
coordination among bodies the form of legislation being
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concerned. Also, shortage of passed through the national
Government Environmental Policies and Organization
Department of Environment The 6 important bureaus
and National Resources (DENR) are:
• Forest Management
• It took charge of all environmental Bureau
administration.
• It is a body that has the integrated • Mines and Geosciences
and strengthened authority of the Bureau
former Department of Natural
Resources and the Ministry of House • Environmental
Settlements.
Management Bureau
• Its task is to make policy
decisions on environment and • Ecosystems Research
natural resources and to balance and Development
development activities with
environmental management, Bureau
with the aim to achieve
sustainable development. • Protected Areas and
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Wildlife Bureau
WHA
executive department of the
T
PH government was put in sole
charge to make policy
decisions on environment and
natural resources?
DENR (Department of
Environment and Natural
Resources)
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Philippine Environmental Policy (enacted on June 6, 1977)

Presidential Decree 1151 Presidential Decree 1152

• It defines the continuing • It defines the management
policy of the state to develop policy objectives and
and maintain a better strategies for water, air,
quality of life for present and natural resources, land and
future generations by waste management by
recognizing the right of prescribing the
every Filipino to a healthy enforcement of
environment. environmental quality
• It was also the first standards.
environmental law to
introduce the concept of
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Assessment (EIA) in the
The Philippine Environmental Policy and Code
• It laid the groundwork for subsequent
environmental management undertakings in the
country, were further reinforced by the 1987
Philippine Constitution.

• The Constitution mandates the protection of the

right of the people to a balanced and healthful
ecology as one of its major Policy Statements.

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The Philippine Environmental Code
• Thus, in 1996, Congress initiated the revision of the
Philippine Environmental Code with the intent
of having a holistic national program on
environmental management.

• Based on the Pollution Control and Waste

Management Laws posted in https://emb.gov.ph/laws-
and-policies-3/

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Republic Act 8749 Department
“An Act Providing For A Administrative Order No.
Comprehensive Air Pollution 2020-14
Control Policy And For Other
Purposes” wherein this Act shall “Establishing the Provisional
be known as the "Philippine National Ambient Air Quality
Clean Air Act of 1999“ Guideline Values for Particulate
Matter 2.5 (PM2.5)”

It describes the It describes the following AQI

requirements for a Breakpoints that are less than and
comprehensive air pollution beyond the level of Particulate
control and management Matter 2.5 and their cautionary
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Presidential Decree 1067
WATER CODE OF THE
PHILIPPINES • Use of water for municipal
It describes that available purposes is the utilization of
water in the country may be water for supplying the water
appropriated for the following requirements of a community,
whether by piped or bulk
descending purposes and distribution for domestic and
uses: other uses, direct consumption,
• Use of water for domestic the drawer or abstractor of which
purposes is the utilization of being the national government,
water directly drawn from a its subsidiary agencies, local
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source by a household for government units, private
 • Use of water for fisheries is the
Presidential Decree 1067 utilization of water for the propagation
and culture of fish as a commercial
WATER CODE OF THE enterprise or any other aqua-culture
ventures.
PHILIPPINES
• Use of water for livestock raising is
It describes that available the utilization of water for large herds or
water in the country may be flocks of animals raised as a commercial
enterprise.
appropriated for the following • Use of water for industrial purposes
descending purposes and is the utilization of water in factories,
uses: industrial plants and mines including the
use of water as an ingredient of a
• Use of water for irrigation is finished product.
the utilization of water for • Use of water for recreational
producing agricultural crops purposes is the utilization oforwater
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• Use of water for power swimming pools, bath houses, boating,

REPUBLIC ACT 9275
PHILIPPINE CLEAN WATER • It was signed on March 22, 2004.
ACT OF 2004
The law aims to protect the
• The Act imposes stringent
country's water bodies from
pollution from land-based measures to prevent further
sources (industries and pollution of the country’s
commercial establishments, water resources and provides
agriculture and for the collection of pollution
community/household activities). charges in the form of fees
from industries discharging
It provides for comprehensive and wastewaters. The discharge
integrated strategy to prevent fees are computed based
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and minimize pollution through volume and concentration of
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO.
825
All garbages, filth and other
PROVIDING PENALTY FOR waste matters, shall be placed in
IMPROPER DISPOSAL OF the proper receptacles for the
GARBAGE AND OTHER FORMS OF disposition thereof by garbage
UNCLEANLINESS AND FOR OTHER collectors.
PURPOSES
Declared under the administration of
Pres. FERDINAND E. MARCOS Any person, who shall litter
or throw garbage, filth, or
It provides the provision of existing
other waste matters, in
laws to the contrary public places, such as roads,
notwithstanding, all citizens and canals esteros or parks,
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residents of the Philippines and all suffer an imprisonment and
REPUBLIC ACT 9003
ECOLOGICAL SOLID WASTE
MANAGEMENT ACT OF 2000
Enacted on July 24, 2000
In partnership with stakeholders, The law ensures proper
the law aims to adopt a systematic, segregation, collection,
comprehensive and ecological solid storage, treatment and
waste management program that disposal of solid waste
shall ensure the protection of public through the formulation and
health and environment. adaptation of best eco-waste
products.
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REPUBLIC ACT 6969
TOXIC SUBSTANCES,
HAZARDOUS AND NUCLEAR
WASTE CONTROL ACT OF
1990 It likewise prohibits the entry,
even in transit, of hazardous and
The law aims to regulate, restrict, or nuclear wastes and their disposal
into the Philippine territorial
prohibit the importation,
limits for whatever purpose; and
manufacture, processing, sale,
to provide advancement and
distribution, use and disposal of
facilitate research and studies on
chemical substances and mixtures
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the present unreasonable risk to
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE 1586
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
STATEMENT (EIS)
STATEMENT OF 1978
EIA is a planning and
management tool that will help
The Environment Impact government, decision makers,
Assessment System was formally the proponents and the affected
established in 1978 with the community address the negative
enactment of Presidential Decree consequences or risks on the
no. 1586 to facilitate the attainment environment. The process
and maintenance of rational and assures implementation of
orderly balance between socio- environment-friendly projects.
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economic development and

For air, water and waste
management, the challenge,
really, is to maintain the new
regulations and it require
substantial investments, not only
in pollution prevention, but in the
entire environmental management
program implementation as well.
 DISCUSSION

QUESTIONS?
CLARIFICATIONS?

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ASSIGNMENT
• With what you have learned in this lesson,
group yourselves into 6 and create a short 2-3
minute video showing different environmental
management practices and cite the different
policies/laws that apply.

You may choose the resource/topic you want to

create on:

• Air
• Water
• Solid Waste THANK
• Toxic Substances
YOU!!!
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