Communities at the margins
Subtitle: reflections on social, economic, and environmental change in the Philippines
By: [contributors, Germelino M. Bautista ... et al.] ; edited by Hiromitsu Umehara, Germelino M. Bautista.
Contributors: Umehara, Hiromitsu.; Bautista, Germelino M.
Publisher: Ateneo de Manila University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Quezon City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Description: This book provides snapshots of issues in contemporary Philippine rural society set against the changes that transpired from the 1920s to the 1990s. Focusing on microlevel conditions in communities in Antique, Cavite, Dalaguete, Negros Occidental, Nueva Ecija, South Cotabato, among others, the case studies reveal the complex interrelation of population movements, economic underdevelopment, state inefficacy, environmental degradation, and peoples' survival strategies. -- Book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Southern Mindanao as a modern frontier / Shinzo Hayase; title: Agricultural colonization and environmental change in Koronadal Valley, South Cotabato / Hiromitsu Umehara; title: The landless and the uplands, transformation in Southeastern Nueva Ecija / Atsuko Hayama; title: Forest policy and people's survival strategy in the postlogging community in the Sierra Madre / Yoshiki Seki; title: Reconstructing environmental change in the foothills of Mount Kitanglad Natural Park / Germelino M. Bautista; title: Maritime migration in the Visayas / Koki Seki; title: Labor migration and survival strategy of sugarcane workers in Negros Occidental / Yoshiko Nagano; title: Labor migrations and its implications on rural Phillippine communities of Panay Island / Hiroko Nagai; title: Land conversion and its impacts on rural Philippines, the case of Cavite Province / Tsutomu Takigawa.