Basic Concepts in Environment, Agriculture and Natural Resources Management: An Information Kit (International Institute for Rural Reconstruction (IIRR))

Introduction

Use of workshop

Workshop participants

Support staff

Glossary of commonly used environmental terms

List of references

Ecological basics

Ecosystem degradation

Habitat and niche

The food chain

Biological magnification

Nitrogen cycle

Society and the carbon-oxygen cycle

Health consequences of environmental degradation

Population and the environment

Freshwater and marine ecosystems

Freshwater ecosystems

Estuarine-mudflat ecosystems

Seagrass ecosystems

Mangrove ecosystems

Coral reef ecosystems

Human intrusions into the water cycle

Diversity of coastal and marine resources

Philippine marine fisheries

Marine turtles

Marine food web

Ocean pastures

The menace of algal bloom

Red tide (Dynamics and public health aspects)

Forest ecosystems

Tropical forest -ecosystems

Protected areas: a tool for biological diversity conservation

Environmental effects of overexploitation for fuelwood in nearshore coastal resources

Biological diversity: andwildlife conservation

Wildlife trade

Global warming and acid rain

Climate change and the greenhouse effect

How deforestation contributes to the greenhouse effect

Acid rain

Pollution

Toxic and hazardous wastes

Pollution and long-term effects on the human body

Urban pollution: The metro Manila environment

Mining operations: environmental effects on soil, water, communities and atmosphere

Pesticides: environmental and health effects

Others

Philippine commercial energy sources, 1990

Common property resources in crisis

Degradation of the uplands

Lowland degradation

Environmental issues in animal production

Plant genetic resources

Natural hazards