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This chapter provided an overview of the objective and structure of the book as well as of the one-site case study on which it is based. In particular, it proposed a framework on how the multiplicity of laws and intermediary informal normative orders in the Philippine housing and relocation system has created negative unintended effects to the government’s Post-Disaster Recovery (PDR) program under the 2010 Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction Management Act (PDRRMA). Applying the sociological and normative legal pluralist perspectives and the one-site case study method, it outlined broadly the theoretical and methodological framework for evaluating the adequacy of the housing and resettlement project of the Tropical Storm Ketsana victims in the government-owned Southville Rodriguez Housing Project (SRHP), one of the many Southville housing projects established by the government in various parts of the country. Lastly, it showed a roadmap of the book, explaining briefly the content of each chapter and how the chapters are interrelated to achieve the book’s overall objectives.

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  1. 1.

    http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=Nation&title=Philippines-tops-2011-list-of-countries-hit-by-disasters&id=45763.

  2. 2.

    “The Human Cost of Human-Related Disasters: 1995–2015” Retrieved from http://www.unisdr.org/7B39392C-70B6-4451-8831-EAA0AA3B3130/FinalDownload/DownloadId-45F0A75073EB82DEA2E80C3CB638DFEC/7B39392C-70B6-4451-8831-EAA0AA3B3130/2015/docs/climatechange/COP21_WeatherDisastersReport_2015_FINAL.pdf.

  3. 3.

    A fact-finding mission by Demolitionwatch in the SRHP Phase 8B, for instance, revealed that relocatees have no security of tenure to their housing units. The relocation area lacks materials, services, and infrastructure, and the housing units are defective and made of substandard construction materials, etc. See urgent appeal to the United Nations at https://demolitionwatch.wordpress.com/2012/02/Urgent-appeal-f-2/. The religious group, Claretians, also made a similar appeal to the government to improve the lives of the relocatees in the SRHP.

  4. 4.

    UN-HABITAT (2007). Forced Evictions—Towards Solutions?: Second Report of the Advisory Group on Forced Evictions to the Director of UN-HABITAT. Nairobi, Kenya: Advisory Group on Forced Eviction (AGFE) pp. 43–44.

  5. 5.

    The West and East Valley Fault line system spans from Montalban (Rodriguez), Rizal, i.e., near the SRHP, all the way to Carmona, Cavite, and is considered the most feared event, known as the “Big One,” in case it moves. It could affect millions of people and paralyze cities and towns nearby, including Metro Manila, because it is predicted to occur at any time registering a >7.0 magnitude earthquake. See interactive map at http://www.s1expeditions.com/2014/07/158-west-east-valley-fault-line.html.

  6. 6.

    See “Relocation sites: the land of empty promises in the middle of nowhere.” Retrieved from http://bulatlat.com/main/2015/01/14/relocation-sites-the-land-of-empty-promises-in-the-middle-of-nowhere/.

  7. 7.

    http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Projects/idp/GPEnglish.pdf.

  8. 8.

    http://www.chanrobles.com/executiveorderno54estradaprrcjanuary061999.html#.VQPS-47A3Mw.

  9. 9.

    Because a national budget has been set aside for the construction of government relocation and housing projects, a portion of the ADB loan is intended for the social services and livelihood programs of relocatees affected by Pasig River rehabilitation. However, disgruntled relocatees and members of the KV1 Action Group asked President Gloria Macapagal‒Arroyo’s government to probe the anomalous PHP 2.116 billion budget of the Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission (PRRC) for its resettlement projects. They alleged that the Estrada government wasted the huge amount of loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which is part of the overall PHP 7.9 billion budget for the river’s rehabilitation (http://bulatlat.com/archive1/009erap_city.htm).

  10. 10.

    http://pcij.org/stories/2000/erapcity.html.

  11. 11.

    See Fig. 1.2.

  12. 12.

    http://bulatlat.com/archive1/009erap_city.htm.

  13. 13.

    http://pcij.org/stories/2000/erapcity.html.

  14. 14.

    http://inclusivemanila.net/southville-8/.

  15. 15.

    For a more detailed explanation of these types of resettlement programs, see Ballesteros and Egana (2012) at http://www.dbm.gov.ph/62C97C27-20B5-4CB0-9BD2-8286EDF12907/FinalDownload/DownloadId-802ACD5E5502BED15120A5F66A855713/62C97C27-20B5-4CB0-9BD2-8286EDF12907/wp-content/uploads/DBM%20Publications/FPB/ZBB-2012/e.pdf.

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