Palawan at the crossroads : development and the environment on a Philippine frontier / edited by James F. Eder and Janet O. Fernandez
- Bib ID:
- 1441474
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Quezon City, Philippines : Ateneo de Manila University Press, c1996
- 170 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9715502105 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Palawan at the Crossroads dwells on how dramatic twentieth-century population growth, particularly after the Second World War, has transformed the ecological and cultural landscape of Palawan island, widely known as the Philippines' last frontier.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Palawan, A Last Frontier / James F. Eder and Janet O. Fernandez
- 2. A History of Palawan / Nilo S. Ocampo
- 3. Settlement in a Frontier Immigrant Community / Miriam S. Chaiken
- 4. Survival and Prosperity in an Established Immigrant Community / James F. Eder and Janet O. Fernandez
- 5. Food-Sharing Among Batak Households / Rowe Cadelina
- 6. Strategies of Indigenous Resource Use Among the Tagbanua / W. Thomas Conelly
- 7. Tribal Displacement, Deculturation and Impoverishment / Elaine C. Brown
- 8. Ecology, Rice and Debt Among the Molbog / Lanfranco Blanchetti-Revelli
- 9. Sustainable Development and the Environmental Plan for Palawan / Ricardo M. Sandalo
- 10. Palawan's Environmental Movement / Yasmin D. Arquiza
- Appendix. Research Bibliography on Palawan Studies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-167) and index.
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- Also Titled:
- Development and the environment on a Philippine frontier
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