Manejar, Arvie Joy A. - Matches

Solid waste management has been a complex and evolving challenge for the Philippines. Since its passage more than two decades ago, Republic Act No. 90..

The 28th United Nations Conference of Parties (COP 28) in November 2023 started with the manifestation of concrete commitments from developed countrie..

Mining industries can have destructive environmental impacts regardless of the method used. However, they also offer significant economic bene..

An order “banning the open-pit method of mining for copper, gold, silver, and complex ores in the country” was issued by the Department of..

The payment for ecosystem services (PES) emerges as part of an arsenal of tools for innovative domestic financing for otherwise absent markets relatin..

Production of livestock, poultry, and dairy are private sector-led industries contributing a third of the agricultural sector’s output, despite ..

Modern crop biotechnology is being considered as a novel solution to the long-standing problems of food insecurity, low crop productivity, pest and di..

Wastewater and pollution management issues are usual negative externalities in the pursuit of economic development. This is true in the Philippines wh..

Waste management issues have been hounding both urban and rural communities for decades. The passing of Republic Act 9003, or the Ecological Solid Was..

Republic Act (RA) 10121, or the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction Management (DRRM) Act of 2010, has led to the passing of complementary legislation ..

This Policy Note assesses the efforts of the government to formalize small-scale mining economy. Using the insights from national government agencies,..

The study looks into the disaster risk resilience of provincial governments in the Philippines using World Bank (WB) socioeconomic resiliency estimat..

Around 300 million indigenous peoples (IPs) have been identified across 70 countries. Fourteen million of them are located in the Philippines, with th..

The small-scale mining law of the Philippines, the People’s Small-scale Mining Act of 1991, is considered a dismal failure in attaining its objectiv..

The Philippines has a total land mass of 30 million hectares, 52.7 percent of which is classified as forestlands. Various management strategies have b..