Dissecting a population- resources-environment (PRE) dimension: internal migration in the Philippines

Professorial Chair Lecture

GE Professorial Chair Lecture

Place

CAS Conference Room, CAS, UPLB, College, Laguna

Date

4-29-2002

Abstract

This lecture paper discusses the inclusion and teaching of issues on population, resources utilization and environment in the general education courses in the social sciences. It uses a jump-off point the P-R-E framework to focus on the much more specific topic of internal migration to the uplands. It attempts to present the nature of internal migration first as an integral component of the population-resources-environment (PRE) framework, then use the case of upland migration in the Philippines to illustrate some links between these three components of the framework. The paper contends that the issues of population and environmental degradation are closely interwoven with other social structural factors such as access to resources, poverty, socio-political interferences and the intricacies of implementing policies and incentive systems. By referring to some data on Puerto Princesa City and the case of the La Mesa Watershed in Metro Manila, the paper looks into internal migration as a dimension of the population-environment interaction, that is clearly qualified by other intervening factors which are social, cultural, political, and economic in character.

Location

UPLB Main Library Special Collections Section (USCS)

College

College of Arts and Sciences (CAS)

Language

English

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