s:737:"%T NRM policy brief: land literacy improvement: key to sustainable natural resources management %A Catacutan D C %A Tabbada A U %A Duque C E %X The history of environmental degradation can be traced with changing economies and cultures associated with rapidly changing societies.For most of human history, the ability to read and inerpret the signs of nature has been an art or craft crucial servival ,but since the agricultural survival,but since the agricultural revolution, humans have become progressively more insulated from immediate need to be able to read and understand nature in order to eat,be cloted and find shelter (campell,1995). The changes occuring at rapid pace is interprecedented in the history of mankind. ";