Communities at the margins : reflections on social, economic, and environmental change in the Philippines /
edited by Hiromitsu Umehara and Germelino M. Bautista.
- Manila, Philippines : Ateneo De Manila University Press, c2004
- 316 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CHAPTER 1. Overview -- 2. Southern Mindanao as a modern frontier -- 3. Agricultural colonization and environmental change in Koronadal Valley, South Cotobato -- 4. The Landless and the Uplands: Transformation in Southeastern Nueva Ecija -- 5. Forest Policy and People's Survival Strategy in the Postlogging community in the Sierra Madre -- 6. Reconstructing environmental change in the foothills of Mount Kitanglad Natural Part. -- 7. Maritime Migration in Visayas: A case study of the Dalaguotenon Fisherfolk in Cebu -- 8. Labor Migration and Survival Strategy of Sugarcane workers in Negros Occidental: The case of Hacenda -- 9. Labor Migrations and its implications on rural Philippine communities of Panay Island: Case studies of Simbola and Igbobon, Antique -- 10. Land conversion and its impact on Rural Philippines: The case of Cavite Province.
This book provides snapshots of issues in contemporary Philippine rural society set against the changes that transpired from the 1920s to the 1990s.