An Upland Community in Transition: Institutional Innovations for Sustainable Development in Rural Philippines

✍ Scribed by Agnes C. Rola

• Publisher: ISEAS Publishing
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 260
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

All over Southeast Asia, rural communities are in transition to a sustainable status. This book explores how an environmentally fragile upland community in rural Philippines coped with and responded to economic and environmental tensions brought about by a globalized economy and decentralization. This in turn gave rise to local power especially in the management of natural resources. Time-series farm and household-level data of the study community characterized upland development in the Philippines during the turn of the 21st century. Farmer stories on how land-use decisions were affected by economic policies and environmental stresses were told and documented. As the tension between the economy and the environment exhibit both predicted and unforeseen changes, this book suggests institutional innovations, promoting a greater understanding of sustainable rural development in the developing world.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Tables
Appendix Tables
Figures
Acronyms
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. An Upland Community in Transition
3. The Economy of an Upland Community
4. Land Use and Labor Allocation
5. Development Pathways of Upland Households 5
6. Property Rights, Externalities, and Upland Sustainability
7. Decentralization, Governance, and Natural Resource Management
8. Towards A Sustainable Upland Community
9. Conclusions, Recommendations, and Lessons Learned
Epilogue: Lantapan, circa 2010
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