SUBJECT: Protection of the Marine Environment

MODULE No. 01
Topic: Introduction to Marine Environment
Time Frame: Week 4
Lesson 4: Principles of Environmental Protection

I. INTRODUCTION
This lesson covers the different principles of
environmental management.

At the end of this lesson, you are expected to:

❖ Define environmental management.
❖ Explain the different principles of
environmental protection.

II. INSTRUCTIONS

Please be guided of the following reminders:

1.The subject entails a lot of readings. Be patient! Patience is a virtue.
In reading, you BECOME MORE!
2.Please read the various texts carefully so that you can comprehend easily.
3. You can consult google or dictionaries for clearer understanding of terms
and concepts met in the texts.
4. Do the different activities required. Do not leave any activity undone.
5. Please follow instructions. Feel free to ask me via messenger (Sherwin
Villamil Borja) or text (09197836157) for clarifications.
6. Answer questions with all honesty. Success does not come from copying
from others. It is made possible by trying hard on your own so that you can learn
even from your mistakes.
7. Review your answers. It is safe to go back and think about what you have
written. This can help you lessen if not avoid errors.
8. Do not delay in doing and submitting your requirements. This can help you
avoid having a pile of unfinished activities.
9. Have fun as you learn. When you are having fun, you can surely learn the
lessons.

III. LESSON PROPER

A. CHECKING OF ATTENDANCE

B. DISCUSSION
Environmental management refers to those activities which enhance beneficial
links and minimize adverse links among resources systems and their environments,
and which seek to attain desirable environmental system states, in response to
community perceptions and desires, under prevailing socio­
economic and
technological conditions.
The Principles of Environmental Management:
 These are some guiding principles of environmental management. These
principles are helpful in environmental decision making.

1. Polluter Pays Principle (PPP):

For the last two decades, many economists
have suggested that firms discharging polluting
effluents to the environment should somehow be
made to pay a price for such discharges related
to the amount of environmental damage caused.
The Polluter Pays Principle, as interpreted
by the Supreme Court of India, means that the
absolute liability for harm to the environment
extends not only to compensate the victims of
pollution but
also the cost
of restoring
the
environmental
degradation.
Thus, it includes environmental costs as well
as direct costs to people or property.
Remediation of the damaged environment is part
of the process of sustainable development and
as such the polluter is liable to pay the cost
to the individual sufferers as well as the
costs of reversing the damaged ecology.

2. The User Pays Principle (UPP):

It is considered as a part of the PPP.
The principle states that all resource users
should pay for the full long-run marginal
cost of the use of a resource and related
services, including any associated treatment
costs. It is applied when resources are being
used and consumed.

3. The Precautionary Principle (PP):

The main objective of the precautionary principle is to ensure that a
substance or activity posing a threat to the environment is prevented from
adversely affecting the environment, even if there is no conclusive scientific
proof of linking that particular substance or activity to environmental damage.
The words ‘substance’ and ‘activity’ are the result of human intervention.
The principle is essential for the
protection of environment and human
health by implementing in the field of
production and distribution of energy
resources.
4. Principle of Effectiveness and Efficiency:
It is essential that efficiency
of resources use may also be
accomplished by the use of policy
instruments that create incentive to
minimize wasteful use. It also
applies to various issues of
environmental governance by streaming
processes and procedures in order to
minimize environmental costs.

5. The Principle of Responsibility:

It is the responsibility of all

persons, corporations and states to
maintain the ecological processes.
Further, access to environmental
resources carries attendant
responsibilities to use them in an
ecological sustainable economically
efficient and socially fair manner.

6.
The

Principle of Participation:
It is the duty of all the persons to
participate in collectively environmental
decision-making activities. Some
participation areas are related to the use of
trees and other plants, minerals, soils, fish
and wildlife for purposes such as materials
and food as well as for consumptive and
non-consumptive recreation. The second issue
concerns solid waste i.e. garbage,
construction and demolition materials and
chemically hazardous waste etc. The third
issue of participation is related to
pollution generating activities.
7. The Principle of Proportionality:
The principle of proportionality is based on the concept of balance. A balance is
to maintain between the economic
development on the one hand and
environmental protection on the
other hand. It cannot be disputed
that no development is possible
without some adverse effects on
ecology. Therefore, it is essential
to adjust the interest of the
people as well as the necessity to
maintain the environment. Moreover,
comparative hardships have to be
balanced and benefits to a larger
section of the people have to be
maintained.

C. SYNTHESIS
Note: Proceed to GOOGLE CLASSROOM under CLASSWORK SECTION and take your
activity in the “PRELIM ACTIVITIES”.

D. SUMMARY
In particular, the goals of resources management are often single purpose,
whereas those of environmental management are invariably multi-purpose’ this is
because resources management focuses only on its resource system while
environmental management deals with both resource system and their environments.
Further, community needs and value are fundamental to environmental management
goal setting.

The different principles of environmental protection are as follows:

1. Polluter Pays Principle (PPP)
2. The User Pays Principle (UPP)
3. The Precautionary Principle (PP)
4. Principle of Effectiveness and Efficiency
5. The Principle of Responsibility
6. The Principle of Participation
7. The Principle of Proportionality

E. EVALUATION
Note: Proceed to EDMODO CLASSROOM.
File name: QUIZ 4 (Lesson 4)
This quiz consists of multiple-choice, true or false, fill in the blanks,
matching type, multiple answer and short essay questions. To be successful with
the weekly quizzes, it’s important to thoroughly read PRELIM MODOULE (Lesson 4).
It will also be extremely useful to study the key terms at the end of the chapter
and review the ACTIVITY 4 (Lesson 4). Keep the following in mind:
Only one response per student- You will have a single and reliable result for
this quiz the highest score being recorded in the grade book.
Timing - You will need to complete the first attempt in one sitting, as you are
allotted 1 (one) hour to complete the quiz.
To start, click the "QUIZ 4 (Lesson 4)" button. When finished, click the "SUBMIT"
button.
Only registered, enrolled students can take the graded quiz.

F. REFERENCE

https://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/economics/environmental-economics/environmenta
l-management-7-basic-principles-of-environmental-management/39722