ROLE OF ACADEME IN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT EIA

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ROLE OF ACADEME IN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
ASSESSMENT (EIA)

• Nicomedes D. Briones
• SESAM, UPLB

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Objective

• To review the role of academe in operationalizing
  the Philippine EIS system.

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Presentation Outline

• Discussion on academes role in the
  implementation of the Philippine EIS system, and
• Future of EIA in the Academe (including
  )hallenges

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Major Issue in Agriculture

• EIA has become an established part of the
  instruction programs of many higher educational
  institutions (HEIs) that offer degree programs
  on environmental science and management.

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HEIs

• MC, PWU, ISU, MMSU, BSU, LSU, CMY, UPLB, etc.

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Croplands Conversion

• Consequence
• Decreasing man-land ratio has led the landless
  population to occupy and cultivate ecologically
  unstable marginal lands.

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Croplands Conversion

• Environmental Impacts
• accelerated soil erosion
• siltation of irrigation systems
• intense flooding
• water pollution
• biodiversity effects

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Croplands Issue 2

• Overutilization of inorganic fertilizers and
  pesticides.

Soil erosion Water pollution
Health hazards
Low Productivity
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Livestock Poultry Farming

• Overstocking (of cattle, goat)
• overgrazing
• disappearance of desirable
• pasture species,
• growth of weeds
• soil erosion

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Livestock Poultry Farming

• Swine chicken manures high mineral and
  nutrient content increases risks of water
  pollution affecting river and coastal fisheries
  and posing threats to supplies of clean drinking
  water.
• Noise smell problems

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Fisheries

• 1.5 million employed (2003)
• 68 - municipal fisheries
• 26 - aquaculture
• 6 - commercial fisheries

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Municipal Fisheries

• siltation due to deforestation and
• improper agricultural practices
• settlements and coastal land
• development

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Municipal Fisheries

• nutrient enrichment due to
• agricultural fertilizer run-off
• and sewage
• destructive fishing methods

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Aquaculture

• Conversion of mangrove areas into capital
  intensive brackishwater fishponds
• Rehabilitation of abandoned fishponds DA/DENR
  issue

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Aquaculture

• Pen and cage culture slows down the free flow of
  currents, thus, promoting rapid rate of
  siltation.
• Unconsumed feeds pollute the waters inducing
  fishkills.

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Forests Agriculture

• Despite the logging ban, deforestation is still
  about 100,000 ha/year that leads to
• - Soil Erosion
• - Loss of Biodiversity
• - Disruption of Water Cycle
• - Adverse Impacts on Indigenous
• People's Communities

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Efforts Initiatives

• Of course, there are past and on-going
  initiatives efforts to address the issues
  previously mentioned by all sectors of the
  Philippine society.

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Lessons from Efforts Initiatives

• Holistic/Integrated approaches to natural
  resource mgt. that integrates policy,
  institutional, economic and technological
  interventions.

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Recommendation

• Operationalization of existing natural
  resources management laws regulations (PA 21,
  Forestry laws, AFMA, Clean Water Act, Mining
  Code, Fisheries Code. Local Govt. Code, etc.).

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THANK YOU!