1. Settlement
Settlements are areas where concentrations
of population engage in economic, political, cultural, and other social
activities. Settlements Development focuses on the spatial distribution of shelter,
infrastructure and networks, and services. It is also concerned with the
interrelationships of settlements as they develop and establish functional
linkages based on their respective resource endowments and comparative
advantages.
The primary concerns of Settlements Development
are to help ensure, for the present and future generations of Filipinos:
(a) an effective integration of activities
within and among settlements, allowing efficient production and movement of
people and commodities through the provision of appropriate land,
infrastructure, and facilities; and
(b) the access of the population to housing,
education, health care, recreation, transportation and communication, sanitation,
and basic utilities such as water, power, waste disposal and other services.
Reference: National Physical Framework
Plan for 2001-2030 Executive Summary p. 5
2. Production
Production Land Use refers to the direct
and indirect utilization of land resources for crop production, fishery,
livestock and poultry production, timber production, agroforestry, mining,
industry, and tourism.
The primary objective of planning for
Production Land Use is to determine the most efficient and equitable manner of
utilizing and managing land resources such that there is adequate and
accessible space for sustainable food production, forest and mineral resource
extraction, industry, and tourism, with the end in view of meeting the material
and other requirements of the population.
The physical planning issues and concerns
are grouped into four categories: food security, levels of production and
productivity, industrialization, and environmental impacts.
Reference:
National Physical Framework Plan for 2001-2030 Executive Summary p. 7-8
3. Protection
Protection
Land Use refers to the rehabilitation, conservation, and management of
sensitive/critical ecosystems to preserve their integrity, to allow degraded
resources to regenerate, and to protect the human population from environmental
hazards.
Protection
Land Use policy guidelines seek to achieve environmental stability and
ecological integrity; ensure balance between resource use and the preservation
of some educational, cultural and historical significance and protect people
and man-made structures from the ill effects of natural hazards. They cover the
following protected areas: NIPAS, non-NIPAS and hazard-prone areas.
There are four major physical planning
issues/concerns within Protection Land Use:
(a) non-demarcation of boundaries of
protection areas;
(b) conflict resolution within protection
areas;
(c) disaster mitigation, use of resources
and its impact on protection areas; and
(d) information, education and
communication campaign.
Reference: National
Physical Framework Plan for 2001-2030 Executive Summary p. 10
4. Infrastructure
The
role of infrastructure in national development is to provide the built-up
environment that allows production, consumption, and service activities to take
place. Infrastructure development in the NFPP covers five subsectors: transportation,
communications, energy, water resources, and social infrastructure. Its basic
concerns are the provision of basic services, fostering economic and other
forms of integration necessary for producing or obtaining the material requirements
of Filipinos, and the development of an efficient, responsive, safe, and
ecologically friendly built environment.
Reference: National Physical
Framework Plan for 2001-2030 Executive Summary p. 11-12
Can
areas in the forest land both have protection and production management
prescription? Explain your
answer.
Yes, both forest’s protection and production areas can have
management prescription because there is a need for these areas to be both
preserved based on their uses. The main focus of the management prescription is
to preserve the delineation or their respective boundaries. The policy is to develop
the production areas into viable area for agroforestry and even for eco-tourism,
timber production and other special uses where people in the area will be
sustained with their livelihoods or economic needs. With this, people will no
longer encroach into the protected forestland and conduct some illegal
activities like illegal logging, kaingin, hunting of wildlife and other forms
of forest degradation.
In formulating forest land use planning, it is important that
the area and the management system for both production and forestland should be
properly evaluated so that the best and sustainable use of the land will be
ensured.
3.
Is there such a thing as protected agriculture (both protection and production management
prescription)?
Provide concrete location and examples.
Yes,
there is such thing as protected agriculture. This also referred to as prime
agricultural land which must protected because these are very fertile and
productive. Protection here means, the area is irrigated and cannot be
converted into other uses. Both protection and production management
prescription should be present in order to ensure that the needs of the people
are sustainably addressed. Under RA 8435, this is called as the Network of Protected Areas for Agricultural and Agro-industrial
Development (NPAAAD).
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