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

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.

Author: Kristian Karlo Saguin
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 06/14/2022
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780520382664
ISBN10: 0520382668
BISAC Categories:
- Technology & Engineering | Environmental | Water Supply
- Social Science | Agriculture & Food (see also Political Science | Public Poli
- Political Science | Public Policy | City Planning & Urban Development

About the Author
Kristian Karlo Saguin is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of the Philippines.