Ecological Applications Flashcards
Ecosystem Services (4)
Supporting services
Provisioning services
Regulating services
Cultural services
Supporting Services (3)
Habitat provision
Soil Formation
Nutrient Cycling
Provisioning Services (4)
Food
Fuel
Timber
Fiber
Regulating services (3)
Water Purification
Climate Regulation
Flood Regulation
Cultural Services
Educational
Recreational
Aesthetic
Resource Management and Conservation Schemes
Debt for Nature Swap
Good Agricultural Practices
Public-Private Partnerships
Economic Valuation
Payment for Ecosystem Services
Environment Impact Assessment
Protected Area System
An agreement that reduces a developing country’s debt stock or service in exchange for a commitment to protect nature from the debtor-government
Debt for nature swaps
Debt for Nature swap projects in the Philippines (2)
World Wide Fund $900k Haribon foundation (protected areas)
United States of America $32M (rainforests)
A certifying division that ensures food safety and assure quality of agricultural projects while keeping high regard for environmental protection and that of workers health, safety and welfare
Good Agricultural Practices
GAP regulates the following (7)
Site history and management
Planting material
Genetically Modified Organisms
Fertilizers and soil additives
Water
Chemicals
Harvesting and handling produce
Partnership between private business stakeholders and government agencies for environmental protection
Private-Public Partnership
Ecological services are monetized to show the economic value of resource. This will highlight the importance of resource and may lead to protection.
Economic Valuation
Occurs when a beneficiary of an ecosystem service makes a direct or indirect payment to the pay for services received
Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES)
A process of evaluating the likely environmental impacts of proposed project or development, taking into account inter-related socio-economic, cultural and human-health impacts, both beneficial and adverse.
Environmental Impact Assessment
Recognizes the critical importance of protecting and maintaining the natural and biological and physical diversities of the environment notably on areas with biologically unique features to sustain human life and development.
RA 7586 National Integrated Protected Areas System (NIPAS)
Under Nipas (8)
Strict nature reserve
Natural park
Natural monument
Wildlife sanctuary
Protected landscapes and seascapes
Resource reserve
Natural biotic areas
Areas established by law
Turtle Islands Wildlife Sanctuary in Tawi-tawi (4)
241,495 . 92 hectares marine and terrestrial
Only nesting site of green turtles
Only major nesting ground ASEAN
11th major nesting site in the world
Refers to any substance that negatively impacts the environment or organisms that live within the affected environment
Pollution
Types of Pollution (3)
Water
Air
Soil
Impacts of Pollution on health (4)
Reproductive
Respiratiory
Neurological
Immune
Impacts of Pollution environmental (5)
Acid Rain
Eutrophication
Haze
Crop and Forest Damage
Global Climate Change
International Mechanisms (5)
Binding and unbinding legal instruments
Conventions
Clean development
Conference of parties
Reduction of Emission due to deforestation and degradation (RED+)
Conventions (5)
Vienna convention for the protection of the ozone layer (1985)
London convention on the prevention of marine pollution by dumping of wastes and other matter (1972)
Ramsar convention on wetlands of international importance, especially as Waterfowl habitat (1971)
Paris World Heritage Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural heritage (1972)
The Kyoto Protocol (1997)
Legislation (5)
RA 9003 Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000
RA 9275 Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004
RA 8749 Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999
RA 6969 Toxic substances, Hazardous, and Nuclear Waste Control Act of 1990
PD 1586 Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Statement of 1978
To return the environmental conditions to its original state
Acknowledges that vegetation were permanently altered but attempts to return a self sustaining community as close as possible to the original
Restoration
Rehabilitation
Restoration Projects (2)
National Greening Program -Plant 1.5 B trees
Filipinovation on coral reef restoration
Rehabilitation occurs where (4)
Pasig River
Manila Bay
Laguna Lake
Mining Sites
Considerations of Restoring and Rehabilitating the Environment (3)
Biophysical Aspects
Socio-economic Aspects
Ecological Aspects
Biophysical aspects (4)
Soil Quality
Water Quality
Air Quality
Extent of degradation
Socio-economic aspects
Livelihood Change
Likelihood of Change
Equity considerations
Alternative livelihood
Ecological Aspects
Native Species
Landscape consideration
Habitat for wildlife
Introduction of lost species
