UNIVERSITY OF MAKATI

J. P. Rizal Ext., West Rembo, Makati City

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL SCIENCE
Department of Human Resource Development Management
Course Title Title
Module No. 10
THE ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT Module Leader DR. ERICSON Z. MATIAS

Module Contributors

Timeframe: Students are expected to finish all the activities, assignments, and
assessments of this module in one week.

Students are expected to:

How to Complete 1. Read the Topic Lesson
this module? 2. View video lecture
a. Introduction to the Environment and Development
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdPFqOkds2U
b. Is Economic Growth compatible with the Environment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QgZ5mUgZlI
c. Conflict between Environment and Development
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF9L2Bc_qZs
3. Participate in this week’s discussion
4. Answer the Performance Task No.
a. Internet Research
b. Overview in the Environment and Development
c. Reflection Paper

Teaching Strategies 1. Read topic notes / PPT presentation.

2. Discussion/ Recitation via Google Meet.

Introduction/Overview.

Environment and Development focuses on the adverse impact that human activities,
developments, and economic growth have on both natural and inhabited environments. The
book presents the associated problems, along with solutions that can be used to achieve a
harmonic, sustainable development that provides for the co-existence of man and natural life.
INTRODUCTION

Chapters provide detailed information on a range of environments including atmospheric,

aquatic, soil, natural, urban, energy, and extraterrestrial, as well as the relationship between
the environment and development. In addition, this comprehensive book presents the latest
research findings and trends in global environmental policy for each issue.

1. Offers a discussion of the extraterrestrial environment and waste in earth orbit as one of the
distinctive topics of the book
2. Addresses global environmental policy issues and policies
3. Presents tabulated data to support the analysis and explain the issues presented
4. Includes case studies covering many topics of current interest

By the end of this module, student will be able to:

OUTCOMES
LEARNING

1. Understand the Imperative of Agricultural Progress and Rural Development

2. Explain Roles for Government in Agricultural Development
3. Discuss the Structure of Agrarian Systems in the Developing World
4. Enumerate and explain the Agrarian structure
 ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT AND ITS RELEVANCE

Credit to: Youtube

Watch Video, Making Sense of Environment and Development

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdPFqOkds2U

• Environmental issues affect, and are affected by, economic development

• Classic market failures lead to too much environmental degradation

• Poverty and lack of education may also lead to non-sustainable use of environmental
resources

• Global warming and attendant climate change is a growing concern in developing

countries

• Sustainable development and environmental accounting

• Sustainable development has been defined as “meeting the needs of present

generation without compromising the wellbeing of future generations”

• So, running down the capital stock is not consistent with the idea of sustainability

• Environmental and other forms of capital are substitutes only to a degree; eventually
they likely act as complements

• In developing countries, environmental capital is generally a larger fraction of total

capital

• To know whether environmental capital is increasing or decreasing, we need

environmental accounting.
 POST-EVALUATION

1. Is sustainable development a practical and feasible goal for nations? What might be some
of the difficulties and possible trade-offs? Explain your answer.
2. In what ways does poverty lead to environmental degradation? In what way are the poor
ASSIGNMENT

victims? Specifically, provide two examples of how the poor sometimes degrade the natural
resources on which they depend. Why does this happen, and what might be done to escape
this trap?
3. What types of environmental problems do the rural and urban poor share? What are some
differences in the conditions they face?
4. How are population growth, poverty, and land pressures interrelated? Explain how these
problems can create a vicious circle of events.
5. What steps might governments in less developed countries take to reduce overexploitation
of natural resources? What impact do pricing policies have?

IDENTIFICATION
__________1. Excess of what a producer of a good receives and the minimum amount the
producer would be willing to accept because of a positive-sloping marginal cost curve.
__________2. The premium or additional rent charged for the use of a resource or good that
is in fixed or limited supply.
__________3. The sum of net benefits to all consumers.
__________4. The transformation of a region into dry, barren land with little or no capacity to
ASSESSMENT

sustain life without an artificial source of water.

__________5. The addition to total cost incurred by the producer as a result of increasing
output by one more unit.
__________6. The discounted value at the present time of a sum of money to be received in
the future.
__________7. Loss of valuable topsoils resulting from overuse of farmland, and deforestation
and consequent flooding of farmland.
__________8. Any combustible organic matter that may be used as fuel, such as firewood,
dung, or agricultural residues.
__________9. Excess utility over price derived by consumers because of a negative sloping
demand curve.
__________10. The clearing of forested land either for agricultural purposes or for logging
and for use as firewood.
REFERENCES

Economic Development 8th edition by Michael P. Tadaro and Stephen C. Smith

Other References:

PowerPoint presentation by Michael P. Tadaro