Social factors influencing natural resource management in the Philippines

This is a study about rural households making a living from a declining natural resource base and surviving in a changing rural economy in rural Philippines. Informed by the political ecology and feminist environmentalism theoretical frameworks, the study uses empirically-based theorizing to elucidate social factors that influence household resource management strategies. Interactions of class and gender relations, the coexistence of market and nonmarket relations, and the power of social networks are among the social constructs that shape the everyday choices and decisions of household resource users. The findings of this study suggest that a "technological fix" model to address resource degradation is not the answer. I conclude by stating that building social capital and engendering local control of resources are keys to sustainable natural resource management.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph. D.

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Department dc:contributor.department

Sociology

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

1995

Author dc:creator

• Buenavista, Maria Gladys

Chairs dc:contributor.committeechair

• Flora, Cornelia B.
• Fuller, Theodore D.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Flora, Jan L.
• Hillery, George A. Jr.
• Seitz, Virginia Rinaldo
• Wimberley, Dale W.

• resources
• rural households

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

etd-08272007-163832

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/39275