Baseline assessments : the state of the Philippine environment
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ASCOT Library - Bazal Campus Filipiniana | Filipiniana | Fil 333.71 B299 1996 (Browse shelf) | Available | B01078 | |
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ASCOT Library - Zabali Campus Filipiniana | Filipiniana | 333.71 (Browse shelf) | Available | 01514 |
Chapter 1: conceptual framework for sustainable development. – Chapter 2: the Philippine forest ecosystem/ Percy E. Sajise and Nenita E. Tapay. – Chapter 3: the Philippine marginal lands ecosystem/Enrique P. Pacardo. – Chapter 4: the Philippine croplands ecosystem/Nicomedes D. Briones. – Chapter 5: the Philippine urban environment/Rosario D. Jimenez. – Chapter 6: coastal and marine ecosystems. – Chapter 7: the Philippine freshwater ecosystem/Macrina T. Zafaralla. – Chapter 8: the population dimension in various environmental systems in the Philippines/Imelda Zosa-Feranil. – Chapter 9: summary and general recommendations.
"Environmental issues continue to occupy a central place in our national discourse. The impending water crisis is but one of the most recent manifestations of the profound effects of environmental abuse for which solutions must be collectively sought and found.
But solutions to the environmental crisis, which has now taken global proportions, are far from simple. Among other things, finding solutions requires that we accurately grasp the problem through development. adequate knowledge of the state of our environment and resources
For this reason, UP-CIDS is publishing the State of the Philippine Environment. This report was done by a multidisciplinary team of experts from UP Los Baños and UP Diliman under the leadership of Dr. Percy Sajise. The team was convened in 1989 as part of the UP Assessments of the State of the Nation Project. Although the data is quite dated, the report continues to be relevant precisely because it provides a baseline assessment of our environmental state against which future developments may be viewed.
Appropriately, the study uses an ecosystem approach so that we can fully apprehend the relationships among the different influences on our environment and resource use. Apart from the assessments, it also gives some policy recommendations.
The UP-CIDS wishes to acknowledge Ms. Sheila Coronel, Ms. Bella Lucas and Prof. Patricia Arinto for their editorial assistance; Michael Arciga for painstakingly drawing the figures on the computer, encoding the numerous tables and layouting the text; and Erlinda Cometa, for encoding some of the papers.
As in all our publications, the views presented in this report are those of the authors whose academic freedom is upheld by the University."
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