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climate change vulnerability assessment of the verde island passage, philippines Table 24. Population of municipalities and barangays along the Verde Island Passage (VIP). Province/ Population (2007) No. of barangays Population Annual population municipality/ barangays per along density per growth rate % city total along VIP mun/city VIP sq km (2007) (2000-2007) PHILIPPINES Region IV-A (Calabarzon) Batangas province Balayan Batangas City Bauan Calaca Calatagan Lemery Lian Lobo Mabini Nasugbu San Juan San Luis San Pascual Taal Tingloy Total population along the VIP 88,574,614 11,743,110 2,245,869 79,407 295,231 79,831 64,966 51,544 76,090 44,925 37,798 40,629 113,926 87,276 29,645 57,200 51,459 18,548 1,128,475 20,873 65,774 24,348 19,191 34,433 27,149 19,114 18,589 20,616 29,488 26,537 10,091 18,942 4,825 18,548 358,518 48 105 40 40 25 46 19 26 34 42 42 26 29 42 15 579 11 18 10 8 16 13 6 10 13 7 15 6 3 1 15 152 295 709 720 730 1,043 1,199 648 460 749 585 196 946 433 319 757 1,637 1,729 572 2.04 3.24 2.29 2.33 2.46 1.32 1.46 1.87 1.87 1.92 1.51 1.12 2.37 1.53 1.34 2.14 2.36 1.19 Region IV-B (Mimaropa) Occidental Mindoro Abra de Ilog Looc Lubang Paluan Total population along the VIP 2,559,791 421,952 25,152 11,310 28,267 13,718 78,447 10,117 10,317 28,267 4,191 52,892 9 9 16 12 46 3 8 9 2 22 93 72 47 85 250 24 1.49 1.56 1.89 3.41 3.35 2.01 Oriental Mindoro Baco City of Calapan Gloria Naujan Pinamalayan Pola Puerto Galera San Teodoro Total population along the VIP 735,769 34,127 116,976 40,561 90,629 77,119 32,635 28,035 15,039 435,121 7,526 47,014 12,166 14,275 26,977 10,618 19,742 7,982 146,300 27 62 27 70 37 23 13 8 267 6 18 8 11 9 9 12 4 77 169 141 441 176 172 278 251 125 41 1.06 1.71 1.38 0.66 1.07 0.77 0.30 3.45 1.19 Marinduque Buenavista Gasan Mogpog Total population along the VIP % of total provincial population 229,636 21,018 33,772 33,341 138,954 60.51% 241 Total population of Batangas, Occ. Mindoro, and Or. Mindoro Number of VIP municipalities and cities in the above Total population of the 24 municipalities and 2 cities Total population of VIP barangays in above Total population of non-VIP barangays in above 0.76 3,403,590 24 + 2 1,642,042 557,710 (34%) 1,084,332 (66%) Romblon Banton Concepcion Coruera Total population of island municipalities along the VIP % of total provincial population 279,774 6,799 4,166 10,883 21,848 7.81% Total number of barangays in the VIP municipalities and cities of Batangas, Occ. Mindoro, and Or. Mindoro Number of VIP barangays Number of non-VIP barangays in the VIP municipalities and cities of the 3 provinces 1 0.78 892 251 (28.14%) 641 (71.86%) Source: Collated by SEPU for the Population, Health and Environment (PHE) network from materials and data availed through the Provincial Planning and Development Office (PPDO) of Batangas, Occidental, and Oriental Mindoro (acquired May-August 2009) and through the National Statistics Office (NSO) 2007 Census of Population. Water supply and sanitation are health problems associated with poverty. As of 2007, 89% of families in Calabarzon had access to safe water while this was only 76% in Mimaropa. During the same year, 16% of the Batangas population did not have access to safe drinking water. Six percent of the families in Calabarzon and 20% of those in Mimaropa were without sanitary toilet facilities. The absence of safe water and sanitary toilet facilities are associated with diarrhea and other water and food-borne diseases. In relation to climate change adaptation, the National Objectives for Health in the Philippines (NOH 2005- 2010) does not specifically cite climate change as a cause of health problems, yet major causes of mortality currently are recognized as climate sensitive diseases: under-nutrition (3.7 million), diarrhea (1.8 million), and malaria (1.1 million). Acute or upper respiratory tract infection was the leading cause of morbidity in the provinces of Batangas, Occidental, and Oriental Mindoro (2007). Pneumonia was the top cause of 54
chapter 2 • human well-being and climate change: results and discussion mortality in Occidental Mindoro while it ranked fourth in Oriental Mindoro. demersal 13% Batangas Province tuna 15% Whether because of extreme weather and high rainfall, eight out of 10 leading causes of illnesses are infectious. While most of these happen without being attributed to climate change, threats to human health and safety can demonstrate how vulnerability assessment in climate change adaptation can and must be pursued to avoid major epidemics. Economic uses A large portion of the Verde Island Passage population is employed near Batangas, where there are eight industrial parks including Cocochem Agro-Industrial Park and Tabangao Special Export Processing Zone, as well as 181 companies that are mostly situated in Batangas City and other coastal municipalities (Batangas PPDO 2007). Tourism also offers significant employment opportunities for coastal communities in resorts close to major dive sites. While commerce and industry provide big revenues, a substantial segment of the population depends on agriculture for sustenance. Fisheries remain a viable income and food source for many people who live immediately around the passage. demersal 17% demersal 16% small pelagic 72% Occidental Mindoro Province small pelagic 65% Oriental Mindoro Province tuna 18% tuna 22% Discussion of the economic profile for the vulnerability assessment is confined only to fisheries, tourism, and foreshore development. Fisheries i. Fish production One of the important steps in the Vulnerability Assessment was to estimate fisheries production attributable to the habitats of the Verde Island Passage (VIP) (Figure 43). Two sources of data were used for this purpose: a) Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS) data set which provides for disaggregation of fisheries production on a provincial level, and b) LGU data which are presented in plans or in various published and unpublished reports. For the capture sector, all coastal municipalities of Batangas were included, assuming that their main fishing area is in the Verde Island Passage. As for aquaculture, we only considered brackish water fishponds and seaweed production and expressly ignored the huge volume of production from Taal Lake. For Oriental Mindoro, we assumed all 14 coastal municipalities contribute to, and are fishing in, Verde Island Passage. For Occidental Mindoro, we only considered the four municipalities that include Paluan, Abra de Ilog, Lubang, and Looc and as such, provincial level production was divided equally by all 11 municipalities and multiplied by four in order to get appropriate attribution for these four. small pelagic 62% Fig. 43. Fisheries production by major species in Verde Island Passage. Our estimates are shown in Tables 25-27 and indicate that Verde Island Passage contributes somewhere between 40-47 thousand MT per year with the province of Batangas contributing the most. The 6,000 MT average for Occidental Mindoro is already a weighted figure for the four municipalities, as explained, and so appear to be lower than BAS statistics. Another 4,000 MT was estimated to be from the aquaculture sector (bangus, prawns, and seaweeds). As for aquarium fishing, another activity studied, we assume that production was not recorded at both LGU and BAS levels. Small pelagics are the most important species group caught in Verde Island Passage with Batangas alone contributing an average of 18,000 MT per year. The Table 25. Marine fisheries production (thousand MT) from the commercial and municipal sectors estimated for Verde Island Passage from 2005-2007. Province 2005 2006 2007 Batangas Occidental Mindoro Oriental Mindoro Total Source: Basic data from BAS 2007. 20.10 5.93 13.30 39.33 27.80 6.29 13.20 47.29 26.40 6.76 13.90 47.06 55
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