Book ID: CBB027282027

Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila's Resource Frontier (2022)

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Kristian Karlo Saguin (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 216
Language: English

Laguna Lake, the largest lake in the Philippines, supplies Manila's dense urban region with fish and water while operating as a sink for its stormflows and wastes. Transforming the lake to deliver these multiple urban ecological functions, however, has generated resource conflicts and contradictions that unfold unevenly across space.  In Urban Ecologies on the Edge, Kristian Karlo Saguin tracks the politics of resource flows and unpacks the narratives of Laguna Lake as Manila's resource frontier. Provisioning the city and keeping it safe from floods are both frontier-making processes that bring together contested socioecological imaginaries, practices, and relations. Combining fieldwork and historical accounts, Saguin demonstrates how people—powerful and marginalized—interact with the state and the environment to produce the unequal landscapes of urbanization at and beyond the city's edge.

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Authors & Contributors
Kurtulmus, A Faik
Irzik, Gürol
Jerry C. Zee
Francesco Baruffi
Rina C. Faletti
Ted Lefroy
Concepts
Science and politics
Science and government
Water resource management
Public policy
Natural resource management
Water
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
20th century
Places
United States
Italy
Lesotho
Western states (U.S.)
Great Lakes (North America)
Palestine
Institutions
United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
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