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This issue discusses whether or not there is a need to legislate a specific policy agenda for water governance in the country. The author assesses the..

This paper is an assessment of the constraints and opportunities for capturing the gains from the devolution of environmental and natural resource (EN..

This paper documents and analyzes interactions between environmental and natural resource (ENR) management research and local governance. It draws fro..

Water plays an essential part in every economic activity and this is the major reason for competition in water usage as well as the basis for the gove..

Is the Philippines ready to face foreign competition in the financial sector? Does it have enough supply of professionals who are capable of meeting t..

This Policy Notes documents the experience of Lantapan, a watershed community in Bukidnon, where data collected by a community-based group to monitor ..

Economic growth and environmental damage are associated, but the relationship is neither linear nor even monotonic. The nature of the growth-environme..

This paper describes the methodologies adopted and the results obtained in assessing the groundwater resources of Metro Manila and Metro Cebu. Also s..

Early studies on the groundwater supply of Metro Manila have indicated inefficient resource use that could lead to the eventual decline in the ground..

Community-Based Coastal Resources Management (CBCRM) activities in the Philippines have phenomenally increased over the years while studies that a..

Water is one resource that man cannot live without. It is thus important that its sources are maintained and managed well to ensure that its quantity ..

The study reviews small-scale gold mining in the Philippines and economically assesses mercury pollution and other development problems in the industr..

This paper develops key performance indicators of public expenditure allocation for monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the Medium-Term Ph..

Berhman (1990) cited the Philippines as one of the few countries where the otherwise well accepted positive relationship between human capital investm..

Although MWSS has the responsibility for providing urban water and sewerage services in Metro Manila, actual service coverage has been low particularl..