PPT 3 Flashcards
According to Woods (2011), the _____
is a place of many functions, and are given different meaning and value by different people and cultures.
Rural Space
The Rural Space has 4 components:
- Many rural areas are the site of energy production, food production, and materials derived from plants, animals, and the earth. Moreover, water is also often sourced from watershed areas
usually located in the rural areas.
- Valued for scenic landscapes and the natural environment. A place people visit to walk, swim, hike, relax, sightsee and escape the urban in search of peace and
tranquility.
- Serves as a home for many tightly-knit communities, indigenous communities, and even of the “elements”. Traditional ways of life are retained by others in these places successfully, which in turn,
makes them highly regarded.
- As Woods put it, Rural Areas can be portrayed as “remote, backward, under-developed places, in need of modernization”. A place where
the comforts of urban need to be
brought into.
- The Source
- The Scene
- The Home
- The Undesired
Largest level of urbanization aside
from Metro Manila:
Rizal, Bulacan, Laguna, Cavite, Pampanga
- An idealized, romanticized construct that presents rural areas as happier, healthier, and with fewer problems than urban areas. A place of peace, tranquility, and simple virtue. It provides nostalgia to people especially those in the Urban areas.
- The ‘_____’ has become an idea imposed by outside communities to rural areas. However, often times, rural landscapes and lifestyles do not match the expectation, and gives “developers”
the reason to modify & reimagine the landscape
The (Filipino) Rural Idyll
Problems in Rural Landscapes:
- Poverty incidence in rural areas remain high
- Wage gap
- Lack of opportunities in rural areas
- Lack of access to facilities that services education, health, and agricultural infrastructure
- Exploitation of natural resources, with the rural being built for exploitation
- Rapid urbanization and pervasive land use change and conversion.
Cultural Theories of Poverty:
- This theory suggests that individual attributes such as laziness and cultural beliefs contribute to rural poverty
- This theory highlights the role of the political and economic situation in perpetuating rural poverty.
- This theory focuses on the lack of access to essential resources and entitlements as a cause of rural poverty.
- This theory emphasizes the social factors that contribute to rural poverty.
- This theory focuses on unforeseen events or shocks that can push individuals or households into poverty or hinder their ability to escape poverty.
- Individual Outputs and Beliefs
- Political and Economic Situation
- Access and Entitlements
- Social Circumstances
- Unpredicted Shocks
The framework posits that the _____ are the foremost cause of rural poverty. However the other equally important theories influence and lead the said
foremost cause to poverty and/or make it difficult for rural poor to move out of it.
Individual Attributes and Beliefs
Four Structural Drivers:
- Rural areas experience more the effects of disasters as well as climate change. Their main source of income, agriculture and aquaculture, are the most vulnerable to risks.
- Development by the private sectors are mainly concentrated in urban areas while the rural often gets the short end of the stick.
- To boost the local central relations, decentralization efforts started in the Philippines in 1991. With this, LGUs have more power over their local jurisdiction.
- “It is important to focus on the geography of international and domestic ______ since it is increasingly recognised that relatively poor regions are not in the position to compensate for a lack of economic dynamism with ________.” - Andriesse, 2017. A disproportionate share of overseas Filipinos originate from regions that already perform better than average (Faier 2013, Hill et al. 2007)
- Natural Disasters
- Private Sector Development
- Local Central Relation
- Remittances
