Village Level Provisioning Ecosystem Services and Their Values to Local Communities in the Peri-Urban Areas of Manila, The Philippines

Shamik Chakraborty, Ram Avtar, Raveena Raj and Huynh Vuong Thu Minh
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Shamik Chakraborty: Faculty of Sustainability Studies, Hosei University, 2-17-2 Fujimi Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8160, Japan
Ram Avtar: Faculty of Environment Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
Raveena Raj: Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
Huynh Vuong Thu Minh: Department of water resources, College of Environment and Natural Resources, Cantho University, Cantho City 900000, Vietnam

Land, 2019, vol. 8, issue 12, 1-18

Abstract: This study investigates different provisioning services in the peri-urban landscapes of Manila conurbation through a case study of two villages in the Jala-Jala municipality of the Laguna de Bay area in the Philippines. Laguna de Bay is an ecologically productive and important watershed for the urban and peri-urban areas of Manila for the provision of food, freshwater, and other materials. However, the lake and its ecosystem are under threat because of rapid urbanization and associated land-use changes. This study is based on a semi-quantitative survey conducted with 90 households in two villages: Special District and Paalaman. It was aimed to capture how provisioning services in the locality are connected with local livelihoods. The results obtained from the study suggest that landscapes in this peri-urban area still has considerable provisioning ecosystem services associated with local biodiversity and that this dependence on provisioning services and their relationship to peri-urban landscapes and biodiversity should be addressed for sustainable landscape management. The results have important implications for the conservation potential of biodiversity on which local livelihoods depend, in urban and peri-urban ecosystems.

Keywords: ecosystem services; peri-urban areas; Laguna Lake basin; Paalaman; Jala-Jala; Likert scale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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