The paper explores the impacts of climate and disaster-induced relocations on communities living on, or neighbouring, relocation site land in two countries, Fiji and the Philippines.
The paper explores the the impacts of climate and disaster-induced relocations in Fiji and the Philippines of communities living on, or neighboring, relocation site land.
Using panel data, the study investigates the effects of climatic variations and extremes captured by variability in temperature, precipitation, and incidents of typhoons on aggregate inter-provincial migration within the Philippines.
Using data from the 2008 Philippines Demographic and Health Survey and MPA data from the Coastal Conservation and Education Fund, the study examines the degree to which marine protected areas (MPAs), which aim to conserve marine biodiversity, are associated with improved nutritional outcomes in children under age 5.
This study examines self-reported household impacts of atypical rainy and dry seasons, with a focus on gender by usig data collected from women and men in the same randomly sampled households.
In this article, the writer reviews how the authors of the book managed to demonstrate the small scale consequences of the global deforestation crisis.
This paper provides a different perspective on examining deforestation in the Philippines. The traditional view is that population growth and poverty are the main causes of deforestation. Given the fact that deforestation is a complex process, these factors might have contributed to the problem with deforestation in the late 1980s. However, the massive forest exploitation and excessive annual allowable cuts, which went on for at least 50 years, would have had significant implications for the process of deforestation in the Philippines, coupled with weak reforestation efforts.
The author describes how two rural villages used population appraisals to devise and implement community-driven plans to manage their population growth and resource use.
Examines the large young adult cohort of the Philippines and effects on rural agriculture. There is considerable out-migration of young adults, especially women and better educated from rural areas. Authors emphasize the role of land tenure, family life cycle, migration and remittances on the position of young adults in the rural Philippines.
In this paper, the author looks into the links between farming practices, farm family functioning and land management.
