SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMANS

AND THEIR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

WHAT IS THE HEAT INDEX NOW?
TOPICS

• Human-Environment Relationship

• Human System Approach

a. DPSIR Model
b. CHANS model
HOW HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS
SHAPE CULTURAL AND NATURAL LANDSCAPE
KEY CONCEPTS TO HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT
RELATIONSHIP
• 1. Humans depend on the environment
• 2. Humans modify the environment
• 3. humans adapt to the environment
• Practically, humans depend on the natural environment which is made up
of living things and non-living things. Human rely on these things for their
basic needs such as food, shelter, and clothing.
• But humans also modify or transform the natural environment.
They do this basically to meet their current and progressively growing
needs. For instance, people plow and irrigate fields, build dams, and also
digs mines. On land, they construct houses, schools, and shopping centers
on land.
• Furthermore, humans adapt to the environment. People have resided in
virtually each corner of the world by productively adapting to varied
natural settings. For instance, persons who live in the mountainous regions
of Baguio City use heating units to keep their homes warm while people in
the lowlands, especially in urban Central Luzon and Metro Manila, use air
conditioning much of the year to stay cool.
HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT APPROACH SYSTEM

• A. DPSIR.
It is also known as integrated geography’ (also called ‘human-
environment geography’).
The model affirms the five factors: drivers, pressures, state, impact, and
response. The model recognizes human activities that put pressure on the
environment and how the pressure alter the existing state of environment
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THE HUMAN SYSTEM APPROACH

• B. CHANS-Coupled Human and Nature System. The approach

underscores the importance of sustainability and conservation of
ecosystems and society. It seeks to maintain the balance between humans,
culture, and the environment.
• Specific examples of human-environment interaction, which illustrate how
human-environment interactions shape cultural and natural landscapes,
include irrigation, terrace farming, digging canals, and constructing roads.
THE HUMAN SYSTEM APPROACH

• The manners by which people choose to use, modify, and adapt to their
natural settings thus reflect not only the natural but also the cultural
landscapes of a certain region. By cultural, we mean to include people’s
economic and political circumstances as well as their technological
abilities.
INSPIRED WORD OF GOD (GENESIS 1:27-31)

Then God said, “And now we shall make human beings; they will be like us and resemble
us. They will have power over the fish, the birds, and all the animals, domestic and wild,
large and small”. So God created human beings, making them to be like himself. He created
them male and female, blessed them, and said, “Have your children, so that your
descendants will live all over the earth and bring it under their control. I am putting you in
charge of fish, the birds, and all the wild animals. I have provided all kinds of grain and all
kinds of fruit for you to eat; but for all the wild animals and for the birds I have provided
grass and leafy plants for food’-and it was done. God looked at everything He made, and
He was very pleased.
INSPIRED WORD OF GOD (GENESIS 1:27-31)

- the Bible affirms the goodness and inherent value of all living things;
- it points out commonalities and interconnectedness between human beings and other
living things; and
- it contains the mandate that we treat the natural world with care and respect
- Genesis 1:28, as traditionally interpreted, does not advocate tyrannical exploitation of
nature, but rather responsible care of it.
CHURCH TEACHING

• “The Church is likewise conscious of the responsibility which of all us

have for our world, for the whole world of creation, we must love and
protect. There is much that we can do to benefit the poor, the needy and
those who suffer, and to favor justice, promote reconciliation and build
peace”. (Pope Francis, March, 2013)
CHURCH TEACHING

“Alongside with the ecology of nature, there exists what can be called a
‘human’ ecology which in turn demand a ‘social’ ecology. All this means
that humanity, if it truly desires peace, must be increasingly conscious of
the links between natural ecology or the respect for nature, and human
ecology. Experience shows that disregard for the environment always
harms human coexistence and vice-versa. It becomes more and more
evident that there is an inseparable link between with creation and peace
among men.” (World Peace Day, Pope Benedict XVI, 2007).
CHURCH TEACHING

• The pope Francis told the crowd of legal experts that ecological sin is an
"action or omission" against God, the community and the environment.
"It is a sin against future generations and is manifested in the acts and
habits of pollution and destruction of the harmony of the environment,"
he said
MISSIONARY RESPONSE

• Group output. Video on Environmental Awareness Campaign.

• Tree Parenting
• Risk Assessment And Management