The Philippines: Understanding the Economic and Ecological Crisis

• Main Authors: Porio, Emma E, Nadeau, Kathleen M, Holden, William N
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2017
• Subjects: Poverty Rate; Gated Community; Islamic Community; Related Disaster; Natural Resource Degradation; Sociology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/sa-faculty-pubs/65; https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-50782-8_2
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The Philippines experiences frequent earthquakes and typhoons, due to its location on the western rim of the Pacific Ring of Fire, a U-shaped series of more than 450 volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean that trace an arc along the coasts of South America, North America, Asia, and Australia. Just off the c...