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Enabling Approaches To Sustainability
Enabling Approaches To Sustainability
Enabling Approaches To Sustainability
to Sustainability
SESSION 3
Ruth Sarra Guzman
Professor, Rizal Technological University
and Board Chair, PATLEPAM
Manila, Philippines
Outline
Introduction
The Ecosystem Perspective -
Basic Ecological Principles
Environmental Principles
Ensuring Environmental Sustainability
Sustainable Development Paradigm
Social, Economic and Ecological Perspectives
SD and Climate Change
Two-way linkages between climate change and sustainable development. Source: Swart et.al (2003)
The State of Environment
Chocolate
Chocolate Hills
Hills Tubbataha
Tubbataha Reef
Reef
Candidates for
the
NEW 7
WONDERS OF
THE WORLD
The State of Environment
• The degradation of coastal and marine ecosystem has affected fish production
• Catch per municipal fisherman significantly went down from about 1500 kg per
year in 1987 to about 1100 kg per year in 1996 and declining still because of
overfishing
The State of Environment
VAST MINERAL
RESOURCES Only 1.4% being
30% or 9 Million exploited
Hectares
High-Potential
70%
Low-Medium Potential
Production
Consumption
Is it safe?
Waste Regulation Industry
Cyclic
Seasons
Night and Day
Tides
Biogeochemical: C-O, N, P, S, Cycles
Hydrologic Cycle
Linear
Erosion
Corrosion of metals
Extinction of Species
Random/Catastrophic
• Volcanic eruptions
• Earthquakes
• Meteor showers
• Landslides, Mudslides
Floods
• Interdependence
Everything is Connected to
Everything Else
Ang Lahat ay Magkaugnay
CONCEPT OF INTERDEPENDENCE
• COMPLEX INTERACTIONS EXIST
BETWEEN THE LIVING AND NON-
LIVING COMPONENTS OF THE
ECOSYSTEM.
CONCEPT OF INTERDEPENDENCE
• The structure and function of ecological
systems are interrelated with socio-economic
systems.
SOCIOECONOMIC SYSTEM
ECOLOGICAL
SYSTEM
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