What we do
As we extract resources from the environment, there is a critical need to ensure the sustainability of the environment and regeneration of resources through effective management. However, continuing political and social neglect of the core commitments and actions is straining the environment to a much greater extent that the renewal and regeneration is occurring. The vision is to reverse this trend, alleviate the extensive poverty and attain the needed environmental balance and viable growth. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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What we do
The environment continues to function as the nation's resource base for essential products and to support broad-scale development. It is the same environment that supports critical livelihood activities of upland and coastal communities and provides ecological services for the country.
ESSC's approach to environmental mapping makes significant contribution to building people's capacities to collectively manage and plan towards an improvement of their way of life through a more responsive management of the environment.
Violence remains part of the social landscape in Southern Mindanao. Yet there are many stories showing human engagement drawing out the potential for change. ESSC's engagement is currently focused in coastal and upland communities in the Province of Maguindanao.
It has been almost 20 years since the last comprehensive national land use inventory in the Philippines.
Within ESSC this is a continuing process of exploration and exchange in research and institutional collaboration. For over 20 years, people in ESSC hve been working with maps, developing skills and methodologies to serve marginal communities and protecting the environment.