INTRODUCTION TO
ENVIRONMENTAL
SCIENCE
Prepared by: Sarah Mae S. Utlang
Topics:
I. INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
[Link] AND ENVIRONMENT
a. Goal of Environmental Science
b. Environmental Education
c. National Environmental Education Action Plan for Sustainable
Development
d. Millennium Development
Learning Outcomes:
● Defined Environmental Science and its related
terminologies.
● Discussed goals of environmental science.
● Expounded environmental education and
environmental study.
● Evaluated the global scale of environmental Page 1
problems.
What is
environment?
• the total of our surroundings
• all the things around us which we
interact
• Living things - animals, plants, fungi
forests etc.
• Non-living things - continents, oceans,
clouds, soil and rocks
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What is
environment?
• Built environment - buildings, human-
created living centers
• social relationship and institution - peers,
society, education, workplace
• Human exist and are part of the
environment
• Our interactions matter
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"What environmental
problems do you
observe around you?"
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Top 10 Major Global Environmental
Issues In The World - List Of Global
Environmental Problems [2021]
-Do a reflection
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System
any set of interacting components
which influence one another by
exchanging energy or materials
Hence, one change on the parts of
the environment changes everything
or affects everything
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Science
• systematic study into the
composition and dynamics of
the physical and natural world
by experimentation,
observation, and the
comparison of ideas with
gathered data.
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Sustainability
• the ability to be maintained at a
certain rate or level - Oxford
Languages Dictionary
• Environmental Sustainability -
“meeting the needs of the present
without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet
their own needs.” (United Nations
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Tragedy of the Common
• refers to a situation in which individuals with
access to a public resource (also called a
common) act in their own interest and, in doing
so, ultimately deplete the resource.
• This economic theory was first conceptualized
in 1833 by British writer William Forster Lloyd.
In 1968, the term “tragedy of the commons”
was used for the first time by Garret Hardin in
Science Magazine.
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Figure 1. Environmental
Sustainability
Environmental Science
• Environmental science is the
study of how human activity
affects natural patterns and
processes in the environment.
• Academic branch of science that
looks into the connection of
natural and human system.
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SCIENCE AND THE
ENVIRONMENT
GOALS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
• to learn how the natural world
works
• understanding how people
interact with their environment
• find solutions to environmental
issues and adopt a more
sustainable lifestyle
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ENVIRONMENTAL
EDUCATION
DEFINITION:
• a process that allows
individuals to explore
environmental issues, engage
in problem solving, and take
action to improve the
environment.
• The National Environmental
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Education Action Plan 2018-
2040
The National Environmental Education Action Plan
2018-2040 (DENR)
• Setting the Stage
• Education is one of the most powerful tools to
develop and shape a nation.
• Every government has a duty to guarantee free
and universal primary education to all children in
order to uphold their fundamental human rights.
• Goal 4 of the Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) clearly indicates the need to provide not
just education but quality education.
• provide young minds with high-quality education.
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The National Environmental Education
Action Plan 2018-2040 (DENR)
2. Moving Forward
• National and International Policy Cohesion
• World Education Forum witnessed the
pledge of non-governmental organizations
(NGOs) towards their civic society vision This Action Plan suggests the "Bibingka
towards education post 2015 Strategy," a top-down and bottom-up
• Global citizenship is concerned with how we approach. National level roadmaps,
coexist, the ideals we hold, and cultural policies, laws, incentives, and enforcement
come first, followed by education,
sensitivity.
awareness raising, programs, and
incentives at the bottom. This plan aims to
speed up the process of sustainable
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living for Filipinos.
The National Environmental Education
Action Plan 2018-2040 (DENR)
Activity 1
Design a poster promoting
environmental education in
their community.
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Millennium Development
• The Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) were eight
international development goals
established following the United
Nations Millennium Summit in
2000. These goals aimed to
address the major global
challenges and improve the
quality of life for all people
around the world by 2015.
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Education for Sustainable
Development
• ESD
• empowering people, through education, to
shoulder their responsibility of creating a
sustainable future.
• education should go beyond focusing on grades
and instead go above and beyond to impart
core principles and awareness to create
responsible, unselfish citizens.
• ESD should be based on a curriculum that is
focused on learning to change the society
• relate and apply abstract knowledge to the real
world
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Activity 1.
Among the Sustainable
Development Goals, what do you
think is feasible for you? How would
you contribute to achieving it?
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Assignment 1.
Research and create a one-page report on
a local environmental problem (in your
community) and suggest solutions.
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Educate yourself
and others about
sustainable practices
Planting trees and volunteering at local
tree-planting events are great ways to
help the environment.
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Protecting our planet isn't
just an obligation - it's a
chance to create a brighter
future for everyone!
#SaveTheEarth
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