By James F. Eder
This situation examine explores how conflicting worldwide pressures to use and to preserve the fish and different assets of coastal Southeast Asia play out in a sequence of groups within the coastal area of Palawan Island within the Philippines, the place the citizens' livelihoods depend upon fishing. The account considers a central authority software to alleviate fishing pressures by means of constructing marine safe components and developing "alternative livelihoods," and indicates how ethnicity, gender, and evangelical spiritual conversion each one determine in altering loved ones financial concepts and different neighborhood efforts to deal with relentless international forces.
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To answer it required me to explore both the wider political economy of natural resource use in the Philippines, the subject of Chapter 3, and to continue my ethnographic study of local livelihoods and resource use, now focused on how these may have changed over time, a topic also included in Chapter 4. From my prior research, I also knew that various government and nongovernmental agencies and programs were already attempting to do something to stem further degradation of coastal resources and help local residents to manage those resources on a more sustainable basis.
1), but many arrived from more distant places throughout the Philippines. 7 shows some of the many islands in the Philippine archipelago to which the present inhabitants trace their roots. 1. Poblacion, Alimanguan, and Port Barton are the most developed commercially, and each serves as a local hub for commerce with adjacent, smaller communities. Poblacion is the seat of the municipal government and lies at the end of the main highway from Roxas on the east coast of Palawan. A long, but rickety pier and a small gravel airstrip also help meet Poblacion’s transportation needs.
Ethnically distinct groups of Muslim Filipinos, also called ‘‘Philippine Muslims,’’ today reside there. Widely scattered groups of indigenous peoples inhabiting the mountains and hinterland regions of the nation mostly isolated from Spanish or Muslim contact retain much of their traditional cultural practices. Christian Filipinos account for more than 80 percent of the nation’s total population; Muslim Filipinos and indigenous Filipinos each account for about 10 percent. The Cuyonon, Agutaynen, and Visayan migrants who settled in San Vicente all fall into this first broad category of Christian Filipinos.