Migrants to the Coasts Livelihood, Resource Management, and Global Change in the Philippines

Name: Migrants to the Coasts Livelihood, Resource Management, and Global Change in the Philippines
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ISBN: 9780495095248

ISBN-10: 0495095249

ISBN-13: 9780495095248

Edition: 2009

Authors: James F. Eder

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This case study explores how conflicting global pressures to exploit and to conserve the fish and other resources of coastal Southeast Asia play out in a series of communities on Palawan Island in the Philippines whose residents rely on fishing for their livelihoods. Faced with declining fish catches, some residents have turned to destructive and illegal fishing practices while others have taken up farming or other new economic activities. The account considers a government program to relieve fishing pressures by establishing marine protected areas and creating aalternative livelihoods.a The book also shows how ethnicity, gender, and evangelical religious conversion each figure in changing…

Book details

List price: $58.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 4/8/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.550



List of Tables


List of Figures


Preface



Southeast Asian Coastal Ecosystems in Distress



San Vicente, a Coastal Philippine Municipality



San Vicente and the Global Economy



Making a Living in a Coastal Ecosystem



Enter the Coastal Resource Management Project



New Ways of Living



Household Livelihoods and Conservation



Common Fish, Mangroves, and Sea Grasses in San Vicente


References Cited