cfs background

Guiding Principles/

SD Concepts Sustainable Development (SD)

The Five Capitals Model of SD

The Earth Charter

The Agenda 21 (A21)

The 10-Point Principle for Good Practice

The Principles of Environmental Education

Nine Principles for a Sustainable Society

The Basic Principles & Concepts of Education

for Sustainable Development (EfSD)

Sustainable Development in the Philippines: Supporting

Republic Acts, Presidential Decrees, Executive

Orders

PD 1151 (The Philippine Environmental Policy)

PD 1067 (The Water Code of the Philippines)

PD 1586 or the Environmental Impact Statement System

Executive Order No. 52, s. 1998

RA 6969 or the Toxic Substances and Hazardous and

Nuclear Waste Control Act of 1990

RA 7160 (The Local Government Code)

SD in the Philippine

Legislature RA 7586 (National Integrated Protected Areas System)

RA 8044 (The Youth National Building Act)

RA 8423 (TAMA-Traditional & Alternative Medicine Act)

RA 8425 (The Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation

Act).

RA 8550 (The Fisheries Code of the Philippines).

RA 8749 (The Philippine Clean Air Act)

RA 9072 (National Caves and Cave Resources

Management and Protection Act)

SD in Philippine Legislature RA 9147 (Wildlife Resources Conservation & Protection

Act).

RA 9512 (Environmental Awareness & Education Act)

RA 9729 (Philippine Climate Change Act).

Sustainable Development

(SD) Sustainable Development clearly

forms the statements of our Our

Common Future or the Brundtland

Report. It has two important

aspects: meets the needs of the

present and securing the needs of

the future. It does not imply limits

and development, but rather

responsible and conscientious

development.

Essentially, Sustainable Development means finding ways

to improve people’s quality of life without damaging the

environment, and without storing up problems for the

future, or transferring them to other parts of society or

other countries. It is an innovation agenda, inviting us

rethink how we organise our lives and work so that we don’t

destroy our most precious resources.

The Five Capitals Model for Sustainable

Development

The Five Capitals Model was

developed by the organisation of

Forum for Common Future. It

provides a basis for understanding

sustainability in terms of the

economic concept of wealth

creation or ‘capital’.

The Earth Charter “We urgently need a shared vision of basic values to provide

an ethical foundation for the emerging world community.

Therefore, together in hope we affirm the following

interdependent principles for a sustainable way of life as a

common standard by which the conduct of all individuals,

organizations, businesses, governments, and trans-national

institutions is to be guided and assessed.”

The Agenda 21 1 - Social and Economic

Dimensions

2 - Conservation &

Management of Resources

3 - Strengthening the Role

of Major Groups

4 - Means of Implementation

Ten-Point Principle for

Good Practice Principle 1: Principles of Sustainable Development

Principle 2: Integrity

Principle 3: Balance

Principle 4: Values and attitudes

Principle 5: Knowledge and skills

Principle 6: User-centred approach

Principle 7: Need

Principle 8: Development

Principle 9: Production

Principle 10: Promotion and distribution

Principles of

Environmental Education Environmental Education must involve everyone.

Environmental Education must be lifelong.

Environmental Education must be holistic and about

connections

Environmental Education must be practical

Environmental Education must be in harmony with

social and economic goals and accorded equal priority.

Nine Principles for a

Sustainable Society Respect and care for the community of life.

Improve the quality of life.

Conserve the Earth’s vitality and diversity.

Minimise the depletion of non-renewable resources.

Keep within the Earth’s carrying capacity.

Change personal attitudes and practices.

Enable communities to care for their own environments.

Provide a national framework for integrating development and conservation.

Create a global alliance.

Basic Principles and Concepts of Education

for

Sustainable Development (EfSD)

education is a key to sustainability

education is really seen to play a major role in creating

a just and democratic society

reorienting our present education system

EfSD encompasses a vision that integrates environment

economy and society

, EfSD focuses largely on the major social, economic

and environmental issues that threaten the

sustainability of the planet.

Sources: THE SUSTAINABLE EDUCATION & ENVIRONMENT

PROGRAM (SEEP) OF MARINDUQUE STATE

COLLEGE:Its Operating Manual & Guiding Principles &

Concepts

Prof. ir. Panchito M. Labay, Ford Fellow

SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF ISLANDS’ LIFE AND

ENVIRONMENT SMILE MARINDUQUE BOOK PROJECT

Dr. Francisco Fellizar Jr, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacfic

University