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Rubelisa S. Pongon, MSc.
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 1. Introduction to
Environmental science
Lecture 1: 1.1 Introduction/ Overview
Content 1.2 Environmental and
Resources Problem
1.3 Principles of
Sustainability

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 • Environmental Science

Interdisciplinary study that uses

Introduction to information and ideas from the physical
Environmental sciences (such as biology, chemistry, and
science geology) with those from the social
sciences and humanities (such as
economics, politics, and ethics) to learn
how nature works, how we interact with
the environment, and how we can to
help deal with environmental problems.

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 • is the study of the
interaction of humans with
the natural environment.
• The environment includes
Environmental
all conditions that surround
science living organisms:
•Climate
•Air and water quality
•Soil and landforms
•Presence of other living
organisms
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Food Source
✓ Agriculture

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“The earth can live
without us, but we
can’t live without
the earth”

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 • L: “re”=again/anew
• “surgere”=to rise
• The means available to fulfill
Resources
an end; the means to fulfill a
function; a stock or supply that
can be drawn on; a country’s
collective wealth

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 Utilitarian- the resources we use to live
or make products
• Inexhaustible (cannot be exhausted
but become polluted & unusable):
sunlight, water and air
Resources

Utilitarian • Non-renewable (finite): fossil fuels,

Non-utilitarian minerals

• Renewable (finite as long as don’t

exceed their rate of renewal):
-living (fish, bird, plankton, trees)
-non-living (water, soil, air)
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 Non-utilitarian – human resources
which have value, and which are used,
but not used up
Resources
• economic- businesses, corporations,
Utilitarian land, living space, homes, buildings,
Non-utilitarian plant, knowledge, patents, franchises
• social- clean water, clean air, sunsets,
parks, amenities
• cultural- resources which have value
within a culture; i.e. professions, skills,
knowledge, religious

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 • Is how people think the world
works and what they believe
Environmental their role in the world should
World Views be.

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 • what one believes about what
is right and what is wrong in
our behavior toward the
Environmental
ethics
environment.

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 • Refer to a way of thinking and a
movement of political activism based
on a common conviction that our
natural environment should be
Environmentalism protected. It takes many forms, from
local homeowners organizing
grassroots activities to fishermen
banding together to stop pollution,
and extends to national and
international activities.

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 • what one believes about what
is right and what is wrong in
our behavior toward the
Environmental
ethics
environment.

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Environmental
Worldviews
1. Planetary
Management
2. Stewardship
3. Environmental
wisdom

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