This study quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed the impacts of natural disasters, particularly typhoons, floods, and droughts, on agriculture, food security, and the natural resources and environment in the Philippines. It aimed to propose recommendations as to how best to respond to the...

This article surveys existing forecasting models in the Philippines and discusses several promising alternatives in the process of developing a methodological modeling. Investigation of CGE models leads to the findings of the absence of population-environment interactions.

Among the components in the inventory of greenhouse gas sources and sinks, forestry and land use are the most complex. This paper summarizes the necessary data on land use. Analysis indicates a change in the inventory/sinks done by the Philippine Forestry and Land Use Change.

Modeling the relationship between population growth and migration, this paper shows that destinations with higher average household incomes attract many immigrants. While it is not different from previous studies, this paper utilizes more environmentally based measures of economic opportunity at...

The story of the Philippine environment during the past two decades is one of growing stress and resource degradation that has recently forced the Philippine polity and society to resolve the problem. This paper seeks to contribute to a better understanding of the issue of sustainable...

This article is prepared for the Upland Policy Conference on March 14, 1988. It analyzes the private perspective of upland resource management mechanisms by drawing from the salient findings of studies on commercial forestry, reforestation and communal tree farming conducted under PIDS/IDRC...

Mangroves are important fish hatcheries. It prevents coastal erosion and provides timber resources. However, it limits land access to coastal and fishpond areas. This article presents a cost-benefit analysis on mangrove preservation.

Economic growth and environmental damage are associated, but the relationship is neither linear nor even monotonic. The nature of the growth-environment link depends on the changing composition of production and consumption and on growth-related changes in techniques and environmental policies....

Well-defined property rights recognize the ownership of material and abstract things. The low enforcement of property rights for a certain resource may lead to its abuse. Hence, its application on watershed needs to be understood. This paper attempts to show the dualistic system of considering...

Environmentalists and economists alike have assumed that greater economic openness will lead to increased industrial pollution in developing countries. This paper argues that trade liberalization does not necessarily result in more pollution intensive industrial development using the case of two...