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

By James F. Eder

Book information

Publisher
Wadsworth Publishing
Year
2009
ISBN
0495095249, 9780495095248
LCC
GN
Google Books ID
vu7XT-N53AkC
Open Library ID
OL10345162M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3567261 bytes)
Series
Case Studies on Contemporary Social Issues
Edition
1
Pages
188\188
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

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 in the coastal zone of Palawan Island in the Philippines, where the residents' livelihoods depend on fishing. The account considers a government program to relieve fishing pressures by establishing marine protected areas and creating "alternative livelihoods," and shows how ethnicity, gender, and evangelical religious conversion each figure in changing household economic strategies and other local efforts to cope with relentless global forces.

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