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2002

Networking, Environmental Management and Governance

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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Basis of Conflict in ARMM in Relation to Land and Resources

The total population projection for indigenous peoples (IPs) in the Philippines for the year 2000 is estimated at 13 million or 17 percent of the total Filipino population. The majority of the IP population is located in Mindanao (61%). The remaining 33% are in Luzon and 6% are in the Visayan Islands. The IPs comprise more than 110 different major and minor ethnolinguistic groups and are found in 63 provinces of fifteen regions including the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

Indigenous peoples in Mindanao engage in economic activities that range from hunting,

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Foreign-Assisted and Projects : Annual Report FY 2001

The year 2001 saw the realization of some of the major commitments of our foreign-assisted programs and projects (FAPs), despite some political and economic realignments that occured during the year. With financial support coming from Official Development Assistance (ODA), the DENR resource requirement for pursuing its mandate and thrusts was augmented. Through its FAPs, the DENR implemented its priority programs and developed policy reforms geared toward sustainable development and people empowerment; optimal use
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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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Sustainable Coastal Tourism Handbook for the Philippines

"Coastal tourism" brings up popular images of resorts at the seaside with white sandy beaches lined with coconut palms and crystal-clear waters. Advertisements and travel trade literature have helped to promote this image of the three "S's" that coastal resorts usually offer - sun, sea and sand.

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Guidelines in the preparation of Forest Land Use Plan (FLUP) Thematic Mapping

This booklet is part of a series of resource materials produced by the EcoGovernance Project to guide local government units in fullfilinf the mapping requirements in the formulation of the forest land use plan (FLUP). This particular booklet focuses on thematic mapping. It intends to clarify the data neede dto properly assess forestland conditions, issues and opportunities and propose appropriate land uses for an LGU's forestlands.

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Status of coral refs of the world: 2002

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