Category: sustainable development
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We thwart the one who’s leading us. We wilfully disobey. We insist that our way is the only way. We don’t take well to suggestion or correction. Our pride and pocket hurting, we push the one who’s leading us into the waters and look for a puppet to replace the one who we’ve felled. But what does…
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The month-long Panagbenga (“flower festival”) has ended, yesterday, Sunday, with the usual fireworks. It is hoped that visitors, old and new, have experienced, even for a short time, what living in a mountain city is like and from that the significance of sustainable tourism.
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With the approval of the 2017 national budget of PHP3.35T of which PHP2.5B is allotted for tourism, the country’s thirteen regions can now start implementing their tourism plans. But especially this year having declared 2017 as the Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development the UN reminds nations that it’s not just tourism. This test for sustainability came…
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Development especially in mountain regions and cities like the Cordilleras and Baguio City should be well-planned and sustainable. There ought to be in the region public education and research in mountains and mountain development, from which to draw region-specific policies and strategies.
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The UNFCCC 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP22) starts November 7 until the 18th in Marrakech. In this time, nationally determined contributions (NDCs) or pledges, which set out how countries will address climate change which were submitted to the 2015 Paris Agreement, will be fine-tuned. According to Carbon Brief, NDCs fall short in achieving the…
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I repeat myself on this topic: Growth and development in Baguio City, a mountain city, and the rest of the Cordillera Administrative Region should be pursued under a sustainable mountain ecosystem framework. The discussions in the 2nd Asian Judges Symposium on Environment: Natural Capital and the Rule of Law on 3 December 2013 at Asian Development Bank…
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Here’s another study of Burnham Park: Carbon Stock Assessment of Trees in Burnham Park, Baguio City, Philippines: A Tool for Urban Environmental Management. It’s by Roscinto Ian C. Lumbres who did it for her masters program in 2009. Her study made use of Geographic Information System (GIS) to imvestigate the role of Burnham Park, about…
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I am fascinated by architectural forms and designs. They’re poetry. Gazing at these doubles as a de-stressing activity for me. I get absorbed imagining the history of the building and design that I totally forget what has stressed me. In an increasingly complex and hyperactive world that values sameness, beauty (hence order) are important counterpoint…