An upland community in transition : institutional innovations for sustainable development in rural Philippines / Agnes C. Rola
Published
Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies ; Laguna, Philippines : Southeast Asian Regional Centre for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture, 2011
Table of Contents; 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; 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; About the Author
Summary
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 e
