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Chapters: North Magnetic Pole. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 93. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Philippines is an archipelago comprising 7,000 islands with a total land area of 300,000 km. The 11 largest islands contain 94% of the total land area. The largest of these islands is Luzon at about 105,000 km. The next largest island is Mindanao at about 95,000 km. The archipelago is around 800 km from the Asian mainland and is located between Taiwan and Borneo. The islands are divided into three groups: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. The Luzon islands include Luzon itself, Palawan, Mindoro, Marinduque, Masbate and Batanes Islands. The Visayas is the group of islands in the central Philippines, the largest of which are: Panay, Negros, Cebu, Bohol, Leyte and Samar. The Mindanao islands include Mindanao itself, plus the Sulu Archipelago, composed primarily of Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi. Physical map of the PhilippinesThe Philippine archipelago lies in Southeast Asia in a position that has led to its becoming a cultural crossroads, a place where Malays, Arabs, Chinese, Spaniards, Americans, Japanese and others have interacted to forge a unique cultural and racial blend. The archipelago numbers some 7,107 islands and the nation claims an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of 200 nautical miles (370 km) from its shores. The Philippines occupies an area that stretches for 1,850 kilometers from about the fifth to the twentieth parallels north latitude. The total land area is slightly more than 300,000 square kilometers. Only approximately 1,000 of its islands are populated, and fewer than one-half of these are larger than 2.5 square kilometers. Eleven islands make up 95 percent of the Philippine landmass, and two of these Luzon and Mindanao measure 105,000 and 95,000 square kilometers, res...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23442 ... Read more

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Introduces the land, history, people, economy, and government of the more than seven thousand islands comprising the Philippines. ... Read more

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Chapters: Sulu Archipelago, Bataan Peninsula, Zamboanga, Manila Bay, Caballo Island, Zambales Mountains, Fort Hughes, Fort Frank, Sagay City, Legislative Districts of the Philippines, San Jose, Batangas, Santa Maria, Laguna, M'lang, Cotabato, Carmen, Bohol, Lake Balinsasayao, Binondo, Manila, Sogod, Southern Leyte, Laurel, Batangas, Taal, Batangas, Malitbog, Southern Leyte, San Gabriel, La Union, Allacapan, Cagayan, Bocaue, Bulacan, Cuenca, Batangas, Mabini, Batangas, Luna, La Union, Datu Saudi-Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Malvar, Batangas, Cadiz City, Orion, Bataan, Arakan, Cotabato, Lemery, Batangas, San Juanico Bridge, Bakun, Benguet, Buguias, Benguet, Ibaan, Batangas, Majayjay, Laguna, Aritao, Nueva Vizcaya, Cabucgayan, Biliran, Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao, Calatagan, Batangas, Kalatungan Mountain Range, Bakilid, Candijay, Bohol, Kabankalan City, Lake Mainit, Sibuyan Island, Culion, Palawan, Angat, Bulacan, University Belt, Bagac, Bataan, Tingloy, Batangas, Calauan, Laguna, Mount Makiling, Basco, Batanes, San Pascual, Batangas, Bontoc, Southern Leyte, Bokod, Benguet, Damulog, Bukidnon, Liloan, Southern Leyte, Orani, Bataan, Santa Teresita, Batangas, Kabugao, Apayao, Paniqui, Tarlac, Lobo, Batangas, Calaca, Batangas, Caba, La Union, Pulangi River, Sudipen, La Union, San Nicolas, Batangas, Santa Cruz River, Rosario, La Union, Balete, Batangas, San Cristobal River, Baggao, Cagayan, Magalang, Pampanga, General Mamerto Natividad, Nueva Ecija, Alcala, Cagayan, Amulung, Cagayan, Pilar, Bataan, Alitagtag, Batangas, Morong, Bataan, Tuy, Batangas, Adams, Ilocos Norte, Magat River, Ballesteros, Cagayan, Buguey, Cagayan, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao, Sulu Sea, Samal, Bataan, Abulug, Cagayan, Alfonso Castañeda, Nueva Vizcaya, Taysan, Batangas, Limay, Bataan, San Juan River, San Pablo, Zamboanga Del Sur, Ramon Magsaysay, Zamboanga Del Sur, Baras, Rizal, Allen, Northern Samar, Siquijor, Siquijor, Burgos, La Union, Lake Danao, Perez, Quezon, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=73054 ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Describes the history, government, economy, culture, and people of the Philippine Islands. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Political Geography, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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International donors and state bureaucrats in the developing world have promoted decentralization reform as the primary means to achieve equitable, efficient and sustainable natural resource management. Relatively few studies, however, consider the power interests at stake. Why do state agencies decentralize power, what political patterns unfold, and how do outcomes affect the responses of resource users? This paper explores decentralization reform by investigating the political processes behind the Philippine state's decisions to transfer authority over national parks management to local government units. Drawing on a case of devolved management at Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park, Palawan Island, we examine how political motives situated at different institutional scales affect the broader process of decentralization, the structure of management institutions, and overall livelihood security. We demonstrate how power struggles between the Philippine state and City Government of Palawan over the right to manage the national park have impacted the livelihood support offered by community-based conservation. We conclude that decentralization may offer empowering results when upper-level policies and political networks tie into sufficiently organized institutions at the local level. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Applied Geography, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Deforestation and forest degradation are the most important land use change processes in the Philippines. These processes are an important threat to the highly rated biodiversity of the country. Only a small fraction of the natural forest that once covered the country remains. In spite of different policies that aim to reduce logging recent commercial deforestation, illegal logging and agricultural expansion pose an important threat to the remaining forest areas. In this paper we discuss the role of (land use) modeling approaches for assessing the threats and trade-offs of protecting the designated nature areas. At the national level different scenarios of land use change and implementation of the protected area policy are evaluated and discussed based on a spatially explicit land use allocation model. For one of the main national parks, the Northern Sierra Madre Nature Park, a detailed analysis is presented based on in-depth knowledge of the region. The two modeling approaches discussed in this paper aim at different scales and provide complementary types of information to support the planning and management of nature conservation strategies. The combination of land use change analysis at different scales respects the hierarchical organization of the land use system and addresses different levels of protected area management. The results indicate that land use change models are useful tools to inform protected area management as long as the selection of the model approach is based on the research and policy questions at the appropriate scale. ... Read more

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The cultural and even physical extinction of the world's remaining tribal people is a disturbing phenomenon of our time. In his study of the Batak of the Philippines, James Eder explores the adaptive limits of small human populations facing the ecological changes, social stresses, and cultural disruptions attending incorporation into broader socioeconomic systems. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Historical Geography, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Documentary evidence for the demographic impact of Spanish conquest and colonial rule in the Philippines suggests that the pre-Spanish population was about 1.5 million. This is higher than previous estimates and implies that the decline in the early colonial period was greater than often supposed. However, the decline was lower than that associated with Spanish conquest in the Americas. The more moderate impact of Old World diseases in the Philippines cannot be attributed to immunity that Filipinos had acquired through contacts with Asia in pre-Spanish times, but to the low population density and difficult communications between and within the islands that impeded their spread. Despite new colonial policies aimed at the more peaceful acquisition of new territories, conquest in the Philippines was accompanied by considerable bloodshed. However, in the longer term the impact of colonial rule was moderated by the limited Spanish presence that resulted from the remoteness of the islands from Spain and the limited opportunities there for wealth creation, notably in the form of precious minerals. ... Read more

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A young Filipino describes her daily life on the island of Luzon and a trip to Manila during the Flores de Mayo and Santacruzan festivals. ... Read more