Coastal Community Profiling and Environmental Assessment of Manila Bay Areas in Cavite City

Abstract

Institutionalized Coastal Management or ICM is the modern way of accomplishing coastal management which lies on raising awareness on the importance of coastal management system. In the continuous rise of population and industrial development in Cavite City particularly in Manila Bay Areas, a participatory approach for coastal management is a key for sustainability.  There were 449 coastal residents surveyed, coastal mapping and water quality standard testing was also conducted. Using multiple linear regression, results show that sex has moderate collective significant effects on perception while living situation, age, year of residency and educational attainment has strong significant effects on perception. Sex and living situation have strong significant effects on involvement, age has weak non-significant effects and residency, and educational attainment has moderate non-significant effects on involvement. Sex and living situation have weak non-significant effects on willingness, age has strong significant effects and residency, and educational attainment has moderate non-significant effects on their willingness to participate in coastal management. Sex, living situation and age has moderate non-significant effects to perceived coastal threat experience while residency has weak non-significant effects and educational attainment has strong collective significant effects. Sex and living situation have strong collective significant effects on perceived factors of degradation while age has weak collective non-significant effects; residency and educational attainment has moderate collective non-significant effects. The water quality test passed the results on dissolved oxygen, conductivity, salinity, resistance, total dissolved solids, ORP and physico-chemical but failed on standard ph., temperature, and microbiological results particularly the fecal coliform and E. Coli. Cavite City should seriously consider replanning for coastal management.