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Primer on Coastal Resource Management

This Primer on coastal resource management (CRM) was developed as a road map on the key steps in planning and implementing sustainable use of coastal resources. It describes the overall CRM process and provides snapshots on the critical activities to be undertaken as part of this process.
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The Values of Philippine Coastal Resources: why Protection and Management are Critical

This book is a reference to assists in managing our coastal resources. Relevant information can be accessed from this boon on (1)resource valuation methods, (2) the valuation of uses of coral reefs, (3)the valuation of mangrove forests and habitats, (4)the valuation of fisheries to the Philippines and the (5) valuation of water quality. The economic justification for applying integrated forms of management to the problem of coastal degradation is also presented.
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The Potential Role of Agroforestry in Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) Areas Supported by USAID's Ecogovernance Project

The Philippine Environmental Governance Project (EcoGov) provides analysis and technical assistance to the Government of the Philippines (GOP) and USAID/Philippines in support of the improved management of the country’s coastal and forest resources. Since it’s inception, EcoGov has worked closely with the DENR in order to find ways to most effectively manage small farmer participation in Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM), an approach to resource conservation practices in forest areas and buffer zones promulgated by Executive Order No. 263 (EO 263) in 1995.

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A Report on Social Marketing on Solid Waste Management: the Jagna Experience (Initial Implementation

The application of marketing principles and techniques to promote a social cause, idea or behavior has been effectively used in many projects. Known as Social Marketing, this strategy has been found to significantly contribute to the attainment of specific program objectives and goals. Implementing it, however, involves a decision by management to undertake a focused and purposive activity requiring the kind of support that is anchored on the belief that this approach in fact, can make a difference.

In March 2006, the management of EcoGov2 decided that the Social Marketing on

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Guided LGU Self_Assessment on the State of Environmental Governance PracticesL Report on Baseline 2005 Governance Indices

The Guided Self-Assessment (GSA) is a simple management tool that enables an LGU, along with representatives of its constituents, inclusively-defined, to determine for itself what “best practices” it has already adopted, or has yet to adopt, in order to enhance governance and thereby more effectively address actual or potential threats to the environment. This report presents the results of an initial survey on governance practices, against which the results of similar future efforts will be analyzed. Two follow-up self-assessments are planned for the project’s mid-term (2007), and final year
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Tree Plantations for CBFM Development

This paper reports the results of a two-and-a-half week study meant to spearhead an analysis of the appropriate policy environment, incentives, and implementation mechanisms for the following: (a) the deregulation of the harvesting, processing, and marketing of planted trees in CBFM areas and LGU-managed forestlands, (b) the establishment of LGU-funded tree plantations, and (c) for inducing private sector investments on community-level forest utilization. The study included a quick review of documents pertinent to the development of CBFMA and five days in the field
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The Unity of Development, Environment and Good Governance

The Philippine Environmental Governance Project (EcoGov) is a joint undertaking of the Government of the Philippines (GOP) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to install in the Philippines improved system of decision making and of taking action against five key threats to the nation’s environment: illegal forest cutting, illegal forest conversion, illegal fishing, over fishing and solid wastes.

The project focuses on three areas in the country: Western and Central Mindanao, Central

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The Role of Environmental Governance in Improving the Potency of Philippine Forestry Rules

Environmental agencies like Forestry Management Bureau (FMB) are reposed with the responsibility to protect and develop the natural assets of the nation.

With the responsibility is authority. The agencies are to prescribe the necessary rules and regulations to govern how the assets are to be managed, utilized and kept for the common good. They are in the business of making and enforcing rules.

This paper discusses the nature of rules. It looks into how their potency to enforce their aims and

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Lessons in the Development of Markets for Ecosystem Services in a Watershed Context: a Survey of Different Country Experiences

This paper draws lessons from the experience of some countries in the development of marketlike arrangements in the delivery of water-related forest ecosystem services. It specifically identifies the various ecosystem services, watershed projects and activities that interested parties have either directly contracted with potential suppliers or have promoted through various financial mechanisms. It also highlights the role of national and local governments, private industries, individual landholders, associations of resource users, local and international non-governmental
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Simplified and Harmonized Forestry Regulatory Procedures of the Philippines : Terminal Report

This terminal report highlights the results of the analysis of the Forestry Development Center (FDC) based at the College of Forestry and Natural Resources, through the University of the Philippines Los Baños Foundation, Incorporated (UPLB-FI) on the preparation the Manual on Forestry Regulatory Procedures of the Philippines. The undertaking covered the period from June 2003 to 15 April 15 2004.

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