This study examines Benguet province residents' perception on natural hazards and its risks, how they cope with these and how they choose where to reside. Benguet is a mountainous province that experiences many natural hazards because of its physical characteristics (generally high elevation and sloping terrain), and because it is earthquake-prone and within the high typhoon incidence zone. Despite repeated experience of hazardous events, damage to property and loss of lives, people continue to locate residences in the province's mountainous areas. The...

This study attempts to explain the walking of people within Sitio Olandes, Monte Vista Subdivision, Cinco Hermanos Subdivision and Industrial Valley Subdivision, collectively known as Barangay Industrial Valley Complex (IVC) Marikina City. The existing urban form of the barangay and results of interviews and discussions conducted with residents of the barangay were correlated to the Hierarchy of Walking Needs as developed by Alfonso (2005). Furthermore, this study examines the possible implications of certain socio-economic factors to the walking behavior of respondents...

This research study generally aims to mainstream the needs and priorities of women on flooding in local development planning of Marikina City. Specifically, it aims to: 1) present the experiences of women living in Barangay Tumana Settlement Site in Marikina City during Tropical Storm Ondoy; 2) identify the needs and priorities of women on flooding; and 3) mainstream the needs and priorities of women on flooding in the DRRM plan of Marikina City.
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The study aims to examine the economic impact of tobacco vis-a-vis rice farming and identify what its continued production entails for farming households and LGUs. It reviews related legislations, policies and programs to understand the legal framework that governs agriculture in general, and tobacco farming in particular. In addition, the study also looks into the contribution of the tobacco excise revenues to see whether it benefitted the tobacco farming communities as recipients, especially the farming households in Candon City, Ilocos Sur. The study compares the profitability...

The Philippines is one of the most natural hazard prone countries in the world, especially water-related disasters (floods and landslides) triggered by typhoon. This study is motivated by the extreme flooding incidence in Metro Manila and surrounding areas in September 2009, during the most devastating typhoon to hit the country named as Tropical Storm Ondoy. Highly urbanized cities of Metro Manila in the downstream of Marikina River Basin suffered the most and the degradation of the upper part of the basin in Rizal Province has been identified as one of the main causes of such...