PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 10 In coastal resources planning: Malampaya Sound, The Philippines

Document begins: PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988­2001 10 In coastal resources planning: Malampaya Sound, The Philippines Michael D. Pido Introduction of economic activities, resource use conflicts, topography and navigability by boat. In the Philippines, RRA has been extensively Field activities applied in agriculture and forestry but its application in coastal zone planning and management is still limited. In 1990 RRA1 was A one-week field trip was conducted to used in Malampaya Sound to generate appraise the seven villages. The following information about problems and opportunities, routine was more or less followed for every establish monitoring indicators to determine village visited: the impacts of future development and pinpoint subjects for further research. · Courtesy call to the barangay captain Malampaya Sound was chosen because, (village headman) and other members of although it is Palawan's richest fishing ground, the village council; its resource base is threatened. The resource use conflicts between large scale and artisanal · Key informants were chosen with the fishermen are escalating. Logging and upland help of the village headmen to give a agriculture inflict serious environmental broad picture of the coastal village damage on the low land agriculture and concerned. The team also interviewed downstream fisheries. other people to ...