Intended Learning Outcomes

After the learning session, YOU should be able to:

1. Understand the fundamental concepts of
environmental science;
2. Describe environmental science
interrelationship with other sciences;
3. Define environmental ethics and attitudes;
4. Enlighten with environmental problems; and
5. Contribute environmental protection ideas in
environmental organization.
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Environmental science deals

with the interactions between
the physical, chemical, and
biological components of the
environment.

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A. What is Environment?
Environment is constituted by the interacting
systems of physical, chemical and biological elements
inter-related in various ways, individually as well as
collectively.
a. Physical Elements
- determine the variable character of the human
habitat, its opportunities as well as limitations
Can you think of examples of physical elements around
you?
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Can you think of the name of

the bodies of water in the
Philippines?
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b. Biological Elements
• Biological elements such as plants, animals,
microorganisms and men constitute the biosphere.
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c. Chemical Elements
• Chemical elements found in the interacting systems of
the environment
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B. Interdisciplinary Environment Science

Environmental science
and the issues that it
studies are complex and
interdisciplinary,
meaning it incorporates
concepts and ideas from
multiple fields of study.

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Anthropology
• It is the study of human traits, Anthropology and
environmental changes
biological and psychological well-
being, communities and cultures,
and the growth and evolution of
humans.
• Environmental Science is
connected to anthropology since it
studies humans and their
environments throughout place
and time.
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Biology
• It is a field of science that
focuses on the study of living
creatures. their physical
structure, chemical processes,
molecular interactions,
development, and evolution.
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connected to biology since it is

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concerned with the natural

environment of living creatures.
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Chemistry
• It is a field of science that examines chemicals and the
components that makeup matter.
• Understanding natural occurrences in environment
necessitates knowledge of chemistry.
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Geology
• It is the study of physical
structures and substances
found on Earth, as well as
their history and the
processes that they go
through.
• Environmental Science is
concerned with the study of
the earth and environment.
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Physics
• It is a field of science that
examines energy and
matter in space and time,
as well as their interactions.
• Physics is concerned with
energy conservation,
atmospheric modelling,
and many environmental
concerns.

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Statistics
• It is the study of
quantitative data collection,
analysis, interpretation, and
presentation.
• It is also used to evaluate
data in order to find trends
and recommend the
optimal environmental
growth.

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C. Environment Ethics and Attitudes

The Earth is unique

among all the
planets in our solar
system.

It is endowed with
plentiful resources.
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C. Environment Ethics and Attitudes

• Human’s greed to raise
standard of living compels
him/her control and tap earth’s
natural resources.
Example:
Many rivers throughout the world
have been “controlled” to provide
power, irrigation, and navigation
for the people at the expense of
the natural world.
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C. Environment Ethics and Attitudes

• The capitalists want to use
the forests for timber
production and not doing
so is closely linked to
economical hardships.
• Removing the trees would
destroy something that took
hundreds of years to
develop and may never be
replaced.
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C. Environment Ethics and Attitudes

Ethics is one branch of

philosophy, which
fundamentally attempts to
define what is right, and
what is wrong, regardless
of cultural differences.
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C. Environment Ethics and Attitudes

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C. Environment Ethics and Attitudes

Environmental ethics are formulated on the basis that
human beings are also a part of nature and nature has
many interdependent components.
• In any natural ecosystem,
the well being of the
individual and of each
species is linked to the well
being of the entire
community.
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C. Environment Ethics and Attitudes

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C. Environment Ethics and Attitudes

States, nations and individual human being have a

fundamental ethical responsibility to
a. respect nature and to care for the Earth;
b. protecting Earth’s life-support systems,
biodiversity, and beauty;
c. caring for the needs of other countries and
future generations.
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C. Environment Ethics and Attitudes

Environmental ethicists argue that to consider

environmental protection as a “right” of the planet
is a natural extension of concepts of human rights.
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C. Environment Ethics and Attitudes

Three Ethical
Environmental
Foci
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C. Environment Ethics and Attitudes

Different Foci of Environmental Ethics
1. Anthropocentric
• The environment has VALUE only for
what it can provide for human

a. Instrumental Value
• The environment has value because it helps people
to reach some end
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C. Environment Ethics and Attitudes

Food Shelter

Clothing
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C. Environment Ethics and Attitudes

b. Ecosystem Services
• Ecosystem Services are the processes by which the
environment produces resources that human often
take for granted such as clean water, timber, and
habitat for fisheries, and pollination of native and
agricultural plants.
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C. Environment Ethics and Attitudes

Different Foci of Environmental Ethics
2. Biocentric Ethic
• views all life as possessing
intrinsic value
Intrinsic Value
• Aspects of the
environment that have
inherent value just because
they exist
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C. Environment Ethics and Attitudes

3. Ecocentric Ethic
• All aspects of the environment, both living and
non-living, have inherent value
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D. Major Environmental Problems

• Humans are depleting the earth’s
resources at an ever-increasing rate.
• This is the sum of an ever-increasing
global population multiplied by an
ever-increasing level of consumption
per person.
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D. Major Environmental Problems

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D. Major Environmental Problems

Pollution
Pollution is a degradation
or an undesired change
in air, water, or soil that
affects the health of
living things.
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D. Major Environmental Problems

How is pollution
becoming an issue?
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D. Major Environmental Problems

Pollution, whether in air or water, can
move and affect ecosystems far away
from the source.
This map shows the areas with the
highest concentrations of air pollution.

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D. Major Environmental Problems

Loss of Biodiversity
Extinction, or the complete loss of a species, is a
natural event that can be accelerated by human
actions.
Biodiversity is the number of different species
present in one specific ecosystem.
Extinction, or the complete loss of a species, is a
natural event that can be accelerated
by human actions.
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D. Major Environmental Problems

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D. Major Environmental Problems

There are five known major extinction events in Earth’s history.
Ordovician-silurian Extinction: 440 million years ago
Small marine organisms died out.
Devonian Extinction: 365 million years ago
Many tropical marine species went extinct.
Permian-triassic Extinction: 250 million years ago
The largest mass extinction event in Earth's history affected a range of species, including many
vertebrates.
Triassic-jurassic Extinction: 210 million years ago
The extinction of other vertebrate species on land allowed dinosaurs to flourish.
Cretaceous-tertiary Extinction: 65 Million Years Ago
Scientists refer to the major extinction that wiped out nonavian dinosaurs and wiped out some 50
percent of plants and animals.

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D. Major Environmental Problems

Assuming no catastrophic events occur, extinctions
normally occur at a pretty slow rate, called the
background rate.
Normal background extinction rate for mammals
is 1 every 200 years.
Scientists
. believe we
may be in the midst of
the next major
extinction event, due to
human influences.

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D. Major Environmental Problems

Overpopulation is the
state whereby the human
population rises to an
extent exceeding the
carrying capacity of the
ecological setting.
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D. Major Environmental Problems

How is overpopulation
becoming an issue?
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D. Major Environmental Problems

Poor waste management -

ranging from non-existing
collection systems to
ineffective disposal -causes
air pollution, water and soil
contamination.
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D. Major Environmental Problems

How is waste disposal

becoming an issue?
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D. Major Environmental Problems

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D. Major Environmental Problems

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E. Environmental Organization Ideas

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E. Environmental Organization Ideas

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