Contemporary Social Issue in the Philippines : Environmental Issue

1. ENVIRONMENTAL
ISSUES
Group IV

2. Social Change
 Social Change  Promoting Social
 Involves alteration in Change
social institutions  Modernization
 Technological theory
innovations  Land reform and
 The environment development
and the way
individuals interact
with the environment

3. Determinants of Social Change
 Actors change social patterns
 Broad social trends change social patterns
 Factors outside society change social patterns
 Social change feeds on itself; as one social
patter changes, it will influence others to
change

4. Social Change in a global
aspect
Industrialization and Modernization

5. Industrialization
 Technological development the expansion of
large-scale population
 Agriculture → Machine-based industry
 Changes that occurred
 The nature of work changed
 The social structure changed
 Disruption of traditional order

6. Consequences
↑ industrialization
large corporate farms
buying small rural ↑ labour force
farms
↑ growth of cities ↑ per unit consumption
destruction of natural
habitats, wild animal rapid increase in the
populations, hunting demand for food
societies

7. Modernization
 Modernization theory
 Two ingredients crucial to this process:
 Developing culture beliefs and values that support
capitalism
 Developing reliable infrastructure of education,
transportation and communication to support
industrialization

8. Status Of Overfishing
in the Philippines

9. World Scenario:
Overfishing in
Philippines
 LUZON
 VISAYAS
 MINDANAO

10. Map of
Heavily
Exploited
Areas in the
Philippines

11. Republic Act 8550
The Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998
food security
protect the right of fisher folk,
Limit t access for exclusive use and enjoyment of Filipino
citizens.
support to the fishery sector