how does natural resources affect the philippines?
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Natural Resouces are the physical things (minerals, water, forests, etc) that an area or country contains. hey dont affect the country...
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Misread first time. Second time--Philippine\nsee map:\nhttp://www.minerals.si.edu/tdpmap/fom/interpretive.htm
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The human impacts of the disaster are staggering. In addition to the up to 800 people who lost their lives, there was almost one half of a billion dollars in property and economic damage. The economy of central Luzon was horribly disrupted. In 1991, the volcano destroyed 4,979 homes and damaged another 70,257. The following year 3,281 homes were destroyed and 3,137 were damaged. Damage following the eruption was usually caused by lahars - rain-induced torrents of volcanic debris that killed people and animals and buried homes in the months after the eruption. Additionally, a 1992 eruption in August 1992 killed 72 people.\n\n Structures on the two largest U.S. military bases in the Philippines--Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Station--were heavily damaged by ash from the volcano's climactic eruption.\nUnited States military never returned to Clark Air Base, turning over the damaged base to the Philippine government on November 26, 1991. The region is still rebuilding and recovering from the eruption.\n\nThe eruption is believed to have influenced such events as 1993 floods along the Mississippi river and the drought in the Sahel region of Africa. The United States experienced its third coldest and third wettest summer in 77 years during 1992. No dollar amount has been given to loss of crops or other economic difficuties due to these occurrences.\n\nFortunately, scientists from the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology and the U.S. Geological Survey had forecast Pinatubo's 1991 climactic eruption, resulting in the saving of at least 5,000 lives and at least $250 million in property. Commercial aircraft were warned about the hazard of the ash cloud from the June 15 eruption, and most avoided it, but a number of jets flying far to the west of the Philippines encountered ash and sustained about $100 million in damage. Although much equipment was successfully protected, structures on the two largest U.S. military bases in the Philippines--Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Station--were heavily damaged by ash from the volcano's climactic eruption.\n\nNearly 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide were injected into the stratosphere in Pinatubo's 1991 eruptions, and dispersal of this gas cloud around the world caused global temperatures to drop temporarily (1991 through 1993) by about 1°F (0.5°C). The eruptions have dramatically changed the face of central Luzon, home to about 3 million people. About 20,000 indigenous Aeta highlanders, who had lived on the slopes of the volcano, were completely displaced, and most still wait in resettlement camps for the day when they can return home. About 200,000 people who evacuated from the lowlands surrounding Pinatubo before and during the eruptions have returned home but face continuing threats from lahars that have already buried numerous towns and villages. Rice paddies and sugar-cane fields that have not been buried by lahars have recovered; those buried by lahars will be out of use for years to come.\n\nThere are lots of websites on this.
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i dont really know...\n\nthe philippines has a good government but under bad governance. LOL!
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Because of the goelogical positioning of the continents millions of years ago. Philippines was not yet a separate country as we know it now, but part of a huge single continent known as Pangea.
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I think that in the present time. The biggest Japanese influence in the Philippines are mostly affecting the kids. It is Anime television programming or Manga magazine circulation like " NARUTO "  and " BATTLE B-DAMAN "
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The Philippines was a colony of Spain. It had a governor-general who answered to the King of Spain. Mostly the communities were centered around 2 main buildings (the church and the city hall). this shows that the church had a great deal of power in running political and government affairs.
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There's nothing better than hearing it straight from the horse's mouth. So here's a website that can give you an idea on the kinds of taxes imposed in the Philippines:\nhttp://www.bir.gov.ph/legalmatters/8761.htm
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The Philippines, Cuba & Puerto Rico
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You should have posted this question in category travel- Philippines. anyway, i am here and willing to give you an answer the best i could. .\n\nThe Philippines is a democratic and republican state. Sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them.\nCivilian authority is at all times supreme over the military.\nIt renounces war as a matter of national policy, adopts the generally accepted principles of internationall law as part of its laws. But the government may call upon all its people to defend the state. \nThe separation of church and state is inviolable. Filipinos are dominantly roman catholics. it values the dignity of every human person and guarantees full respect for human rights.it recognizes the sanctity of family life and protects and strengthen the family as a basic autonomous social institution. \nit is for this reason that the philippines do not have divorce law. \nThere are three branches of government :  executive, legislative, and the judiciary.  \nIts political subdivisions include the provinces, cities, municipalities, and barangays, each administered by elected officials. \nIt defines it citizenship, right of suffrage for all men and women starting 18 yrs old, and the  Bill of Rights.
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Fishing, seaweed, trade, access to other countries.
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Natural resources:   \ncobalt, copper, niobium, tantalum, petroleum, industrial and gem diamonds, gold, silver, zinc, manganese, tin, uranium, coal, hydropower, timber\n\nLook for stuff like this here:\nhttp://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/cg.html
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Go to the The Economist website (www.economist.com) and pick the Philippines under country briefings. (It's on the sidebar). It should have everything you need. The CIA World Factbook and U.S. State Department websites also have good information and are easy to find on google.
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Investing money to develop agricultural areas into industrial zones is good---partly though.\n\nFirst of all, the Philippines is an agricultural nation. Perhaps some agricultural areas should be developed, but not all. Since it is an agricultural nation, it derives its economy from agriculture. If  these areas will be developed into industrial zones, a good part of the economy will be crippled.\n\nSecond, people who depend on agriculture for a living will lost their jobs. If their skills are only limited to agriculture, where will they go once these areas are industrialized? \n\nLastly, and this is just my opinion, if agricultural areas will be turned into industrial zones, and considering that the money comes from Western countries, the Philippines will then have a debt of gratitude to these nations. Meaning, its government will do whatever these nations will tell them to do. Another form of colonization, eh?\n\nIndustrialization is not bad as long as it is done with responsibility---which I doubt the Philippine government has. Yeah, I am disillusioned. I'm a Filipino too.
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I disagree that the country is reaching its dead end. Phillipines is a developing country. The people (I mean fillipino) are very good people and they are dedicated to the work. I know one friend who is a teacher in a school. She is very dedicated to the job. She is satisfied with the economic as well as political circumstances. You should know that no country can become rich overnights. You have to wait  and see the result of investment made in the country by the Govt as well as by private sector. Please be patient and have faith in the natural outcome of your country.
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The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an island nation in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital. It lies 1,210 kilometres from mainland Asia and comprises 7,107 islands called the Philippine Archipelago, approximately 700 of which are inhabited.
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(m)\n\nMalaysia is well-endowed with rich and renewable natural tropical forest resources. The total area of natural forests in Malaysia at the end of 1989 was estimated at 19.49 million ha or 56.3 percent of the total land area. The total growing stock of all trees of 10 cm DBH or more was estimated to be 4600 million m3 of which about 1280 million m3 were considered to be merchantable volume comprising all trees of 45 cm DBH or more. Besides providing direct benefits, the forests play a vital role in maintaining environmental stability and quality; protecting soil and water resources; conserving biological diversity; and preserving cultural, recreational and other intrinsic values which enhance people's quality of life. \n\nThe importance of the natural forests to the Malaysian economy and the people's welfare was reflected in the early establishment of the Federal and State Forest Services, the forest research and training institutions and the National Forestry Council. National and state forestry policies and legislations have been adopted, Totally Protected Areas and a Permanent Forest Estate (PFE) established and forestry practices, based on the concept and principles of sustained yield, developed for sustainable forest management. Currently, the PFE comprises 12.73 million ha or 38.7 percent of the total land area and will eventually be increased to more than 14 million ha. Approximately 10 million ha or 78.5 percent of the PFE have been identified as production forest to be managed sustainably. In addition to the PFE, 1.06 million ha have been reserved as Totally Protected Areas and a funkier 0.75 million ha have been proposed for reservation (Thang, personal communication, 1991). \n\nCurrent forest management practices \n\nThe natural forests in Malaysia are managed in accordance with the concept and principles of sustained yield for all forms of forest produce. Traditionally, they have been managed under the Malayan Uniform System (MUS) which prescribes the removal of the mature crop in a single felling of all trees down to 45 cm DBH and the release of selected natural regeneration by poison girdling of defective relicts and non-commercial species down to 15 cm DBH (Thang, 1990). Approximately two to five years after the final felling, a post-felling forest inventory or diagnostic sampling is carried out to determine the stocking, status and condition of the regeneration and to prescribe appropriate silvicultural treatments. \n\nSelective harvesting of dipterocarp forest in Malaysia \n\nAs the MUS relied mainly on seedlings and saplings to form the next crop, silvicultural treatments were designed to favour these groups, often at the expense of the bigger trees. Such treatments tend to lead to a much heavier poison girdling than is necessary and, in some cases, a too drastic opening of the canopy. Consequently, the MUS has been substantially modified over time, with a shift toward more selective felling and the retention of advanced growth as well as a more discriminating use of poison girdling as a silvicultural tool. \n\nThe MUS has been applied successfully to the lowland dipterocarp forests but has been found to be unsuitable in the hill dipterocarp forests because of the more difficult terrain; uneven stocking; lack of natural regeneration on the forest floor before logging; uncertain seedling regeneration after logging (caused by irregular seeding); danger of erosion on steep slopes; incidence of the stemless palm (Eugeissona triste); and other secondary growth favoured by a drastic opening of the canopy (Thang, 1990). The shift from the MUS toward a more conservation-oriented approach to the management of tropical forests in Malaysia was also prompted by the realization that the diversity of the flora and timber species need not necessarily be disadvantageous to future wood production policies and strategies but could enable the wood-based industries to take advantage of changing demands of the timber