Enhancement and rehabilitation of green spaces in Metro Manila

Professorial Chair Lecture

Metro Manila Commission Professorial Chair Holder

Place

Operations Room, College of Forestry and Natural Resources, UPLB, College, Laguna

Date

6-29-2001

Abstract

- - - The state of Metro Manila's green spaces warrants the search for a holistic and sustainable enhancement and rehabilitation strategy. A system approach to appraise and analyzes the interacting bio-physical. social economic, political and institutional conditions that are directly or indirectly influencing the health of the green spaces can provide mechanisms necessary to conscientiously determine the real issues and concerns. The paper presented a framework for this type of analysis. The case of the major thoroughfares specifically the gateway to the Philippines i.e. from Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) to mouth of Pasig River via Roxas Boulevard was used for analysis. The use of the framework has helped much in generating information enough to characterize the existing situations of the green spaces and has helped in drawing the issues and concerns. On the basis of the results of the analysis. the paper recommended a framework for at least achieving an ideal level of sustainable green space management. It includes, among others, various institutional, social, political, and hio-physical programs designed to address the identified issues and concerns which would need multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral involvement.

Location

UPLB Main Library Special Collections Section

Call Number

Sp. Col.

Pages/Collation

33 leaves

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