Browsing by Author "Elazegui, Dulce D."

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    Do non-farm enterprises affect sustainable agriculture?
    Elazegui, Dulce D.; Ravidas, L. (Madison, Wisc.: SANREM CRSP SEA, 2001)
    Intensive agriculture, particularly in the uplands, has brought about soil erosion and/or land degradation, thus, threatening sustainability or improvement of production. Despite the presence of soil conserving technologies and environment-friendly techniques, there are factors constraining their widespread adoption such as additional labor requirements which are competitively pulled by diversifying sources of income and emerging non-farm income opportunities within or in nearby areas.
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    Enhancing the role of local government units in environmental regulation
    Elazegui, Dulce D.; Espaldon, Maria Victoria O.; Sumbalan, Antonio (Laguna, Philippines: University of the Philippines Los Baños. Institute of Strategic Planning and Policy Studies, 2004)
    This paper reviews the implementation of one major environmental regulation in the Philippines, i.e., the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) system. This deals with the process of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and the Environmental Clearance Certificate (ECC) required of projects or undertakings that have environmental implications. The paper looks into the following aspects - policies and procedures, institutions, and coordination among stakeholders involved in the EIS system. It examines the role of local government units (LGUs) in the implementation of the EIS system and recommends measures to improve the ECC policy and governance at the local level.
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    Institutions and water - the vital connections
    Elazegui, Dulce D. (Makati City, Philippines: Philippine Institute for Development, 2004)
    Water governance encompasses economic, administrative and even political authority over water resources and services. There are various institutions at play at different levels - national, regional or local, public or private - each having its own mandate and jurisdiction in water decisions and actions. Thus, the attainment of coherent water management goals would depend on the degree of collaboration among these multiple institutions (Malayang 2002). From this perspective, this Policy Notes examines issues emerging from the current institutional framework in water governance and suggests some pertinent policy and institutional reforms.
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    A "law of nature": The command-and-control approach
    Elazegui, Dulce D. (Madison, WI: SANREM CRSP SEA, 2002)
    This paper gives perspectives on the command-and-control approach to environmental management drawing heavily from the book of Field (1994). It points to a number of factors that contribute to the success or failure of environmental policy - efficiency and cost effectiveness, equity considerations, and enforceability.
  • More efficient water pricing may avert a water crisis
    Orprecio, Jim L.; Rola, Agnes C.; Deutsch, William G.; Coxhead, Ian; Sumbalan, Antonio (Makati City, Philippines: Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002)
    One way of protecting watersheds from further degradation is to impose a more efficient pricing policy for waterâ one that does not only cover the direct cost of water distribution but also the cost of watershed as the provider of water. Ms. Dulce Elazegui of the Institute of Strategic Planning and Policy Studies of the University of the Philippines-Los Baños recommends the allocation of government revenues from these additional charges to management-related activities aimed at conserving watersheds. A certain amount of these additional revenues should be earmarked for the implementation of a watershed management plan.
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    Policy imperatives for natural resource management under a decentralized regime: The Philippines case
    Elazegui, Dulce D.; Rola, Agnes C.; Coxhead, Ian (2001)
    The policy link of national and local government units in natural resource management (NRM) is a crucial factor to the state of a country's natural resources. It therefore becomes imperative to examine the mandates of both levels of government and pose the question: What are the implications of policy gaps and lapses in effecting NRM within a local jurisdiction vis-à-vis a national management regime?
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    Realities of the watershed management approach: The Magat Watershed experience
    Elazegui, Dulce D.; Combalicer, E. (Makati City, Philippines: Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004)
    This paper aims to showcase the experience of the Magat watershed in the implementation of the watershed management approach. Magat watershed was declared as a forest-reservation area through Proclamation No. 573 on June 26, 1969 because of its great importance to human survival and environmental balance in the region. The Magat case demonstrates the important role that champions like the local government unit (LGU) could play in managing the countrys watersheds. With the Nueva
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    Setting quality standards for environmental management policy: How effective is it?
    Elazegui, Dulce D. (Makati City, Philippines: Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002)
    In the face of continuing environmental degradation in the Philippines brought about by, among other causes, urbanization and industrialization, it is important to ask what has been done in terms of adopting a policy to address such degradation and assess how effective that policy has been in achieving its objective.
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    Setting quality standards for environmental management policy: How effective is it?
    Elazegui, Dulce D. (Madison, Wisc.: SANREM CRSP SEA, 2002)
    In the face of continuing environmental degradation in the Philippines brought about by, among other causes, urbanization and industrialization, it is important to ask what has been done in terms of adopting a policy to address such degradation and assess how effective that policy has been in achieving its objective.
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    Soil conservation decisions and non-farm economic conditions: A study of the rural labor market in the Philippine uplands of Bukidnon
    Rola, Agnes C.; Coxhead, Ian (Los Baños, Philippines: Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development, 2001)
    In Chap. 4 the authors hypothesize that non-farm opportunities will reduce family labor input in farm operations even in a relatively remote upland area. This, we hypothesize, will occur because rising wages or earnings opportunities make farm work less remunerative relative to non-farm. Households will respond by cultivating less land, mechanizing some tasks, or shifting to crops or techniques that are less management and laborintensive.