Environmental and Natural Resources Management: Lessons from City Program Innovations

The enactment of the 1991 Local Government Code has brought greater responsibilities for local government units to manage their natural resources and the environment. This move has encouraged greater dynamism and innovation in some Philippine cities. Strategies employed and programs undertaken by various cities largely depend on the stage of development and their respective focus and priorities. For large urban cities, environmental problems are associated with growth and economic activity and thus, a special attention is given for a clean air and a healthy environment. This paper aims to draw lessons from selected cities that have undertaken innovative environmental programs and to highlight key elements that have made their programs successful and sustainable.metropolitan structure, environmental issues, metropolitan planning and development, environmental management

Managing the Environment and Natural Resources: Lessons from City Program Innovations

The enactment of 1991 Local Government Code has brought greater responsibilities for local government units to manage their natural resources and the environment. This move has encouraged greater dynamism and innovation in some Philippine cities. Strategies employed and programs undertaken by various cities largely depend on the stage of development and their respective focus and priorities. For large urban cities, environmental problems are associated with growth and economic activity and thus, a special attention is given for a clean air and a healthy environment. This paper aims to draw lessons from selected cities that have undertaken innovative environmental programs and to highlight key elements that have made their programs successful and sustainable.metropolitan structure, metropolitan planning and development, environmental management

Environmental and Natural Resources Management: Lessons from City Program Innovations

The enactment of the 1991 Local Government Code has brought greater responsibilities for local government units to manage their natural resources and the environment. This move has encouraged greater dynamism and innovation in some Philippine cities. Strategies employed and programs undertaken by various cities largely depend on the stage of development and their respective focus and priorities. For large urban cities, environmental problems are associated with growth and economic activity and thus, a special attention is given for a clean air and a healthy environment. This paper aims to draw lessons from selected cities that have undertaken innovative environmental programs and to highlight key elements that have made their programs successful and sustainable.metropolitan structure, environmental issues, metropolitan planning and development, environmental management

Improving the Spatial Dimension of the Annual Budget

With the delivery of most basic social services now devolved in the hands of local government units, has the process of budgeting followed suit? How far has the spatial dimension of the annual budget taken shape? Has regional budgeting--which was introduced as far back as the 1970s--become the norm and institutionalized as a process?fiscal management, fiscal sector

Metropolitan Arrangements in the Philippines: A New Urban Development Challenge

The formation of metropolitan arrangements has recently become the trend. As these are still in the early stage of developing their identity, this note deals with the policy issues concerning metropolis and how to sustain such arrangements. It also presents the profile of the different emerging metropolis in the country.urban management, urbanization, metropolitan structure, metropolitan planning and development

Notas para un diseño negativo. Arte y política en el proceso de conformación del campo del Diseño Gráfico

El diseño ocupa un lugar relevante dentro de la producción cultural contemporánea; el entorno social en su conjunto está articulado a partir de objetos artificiales: productos de diseño. La profusión del producto de diseño, obliga a reflexionar acerca de la capacidad del diseñador como individuo, para incidir dentro de su entorno, a partir de la generación de productos estéticos que, en su vínculo con la función, alcanzan laposibilidad del cambio social a través del cambio en los individuos. De alguna manera, gracias a su propia estructura, el diseño se convierte en una disciplina donde tiene lugar la materialización de las aspiraciones de la vanguardia artística: la fusión de arte y vida. Si el diseño es capaz de asumir las posibilidades que tiene para la construcción de usuarios críticos, potencia su capacidad y permite que el diseñador sea un agente del cambio social a partir de un diseño negativo y no únicamente reafirme el orden existente mediante un diseño positivo.Design has an important place in contemporary cultural production; the social environment as a whole is articulated from artificial objects: the design products. The profusion of product design, compels us to think about the designer’s ability as an individual to influence within their environment, from the generation of aesthetic products, its link with the function, reach the possibility of social change through change in individuals. Somehow, thanks to its structure, the design becomes a discipline which takes placematerializing the aspirations of the artistic vanguard: the fusion of art and life. If design is able to assume the possibilities for building critical users, its capacity is empowered and allows the designer to be an agent of social change from a negative design, not just reaffirm the existing order by a positive design.O design tem um lugar relevante na produção cultural contemporânea; o entornosocial está articulado a partir de objetos artificiais: produtos de design. A profusão doproduto de design impõe a reflexão sobre a capacidade do designer como indivíduo, paraincidir dentro do seu entorno, a partir da geração de produtos estéticos que, no seu vínculocom a função, alcançam a possibilidade da mudança social através da mudança nosindivíduos. De algum modo, devido a sua própria estrutura, o design converte-se numadisciplina onde se materializa a vanguarda artística: a fusão arte-vida. Se o design é capazde assumir as possibilidades que tem para a construção de usuários críticos, potencia suacapacidade e permite que o designer seja um agente da mudança social a partir de um designnegativo e não unicamente reafirme a ordem existente mediante um design positivo

Arsenite Resistance of Euglena mutabilis

Euglena are photosynthetic unicellular protozoa. Commonly found in rivers, lakes and ponds, some Euglena are found in toxic environments, like areas of acid mine drainage where they can grow at low pH and in the presence of heavy metals and metalloids such as arsenite (e.g. Euglena mutabilis). The goal of this research is to determine if an Idaho Euglena isolate (SG6) belongs to the E. mutabilis species and to compare it’s level of arsenite resistance with other E. mutabilis strains. As part of the methodology, we have developed microtiter plate assays in which the cells are grown in liquid or on 1% agar solid media; this allows microscopic observation and direct cell counting. To determine SG6’s relation to known E. mutabilis, DNA and RNA are isolated to obtain sequence from multiple nuclear and chloroplast genes. Lastly, as preliminary experiments suggest, if SG6 represents a new strain of E. mutabilis that is abnormally sensitive to arsenite, we will test for the ability of SG6 to gradually adapt to a more toxic environment and become arsenite resistant

Extended focused image in white light scanning interference microscopy

We propose a method to obtain a fringe-free extended focused image in white light scanning interference microscopy based on processing the stack of images over a range within the coherence length of the source. © 2019 The Author(s)