Jevon Williams

ENG 1121

Draft

10/19/2020

Citation: Richards, John F. Deforestation in the Postwar Philippines. no. 1, Routledge, 1 Jan. 1993, pp. 93–94, doi:10.2307/143892.

Summary: David Kummer’s quantitative investigation of deforestation in the Philippines evil presence expresses the requirement for examination of distributed and unpublished measurable backwoods information. For the main portion of the 20th century, Kummer proposes, backwoods spread most likely declined from roughly 70% of the land region in 1900 to half by 1950. Without complete timberland inventories, singular evaluations change impressively for the period, yet the general pattern is clear. Kummer’s essential concern is estimating deforestation in the post-World War II period, where regardless of orderly studies, significant vulnerability continues.

Reflection: Kummer contends that post-1950 authority Philippine timberland measurements have reliably overestimated woodland spread and assets. Various far-reaching woods inventories, defective and conflicting, have not fabricated a dependable time arrangement of timberland information for the nation. Frequently necessary information and documentation from these endeavors are currently lost; usually, the coordinators have disregarded past works’ consequences.

Quotation: “Working from the PGFI results, Kummer computes that public backwoods spread in the Philippines declined from 149,183kM2, or 49.1% of the public territory, in 1950 to 66,709 kM2, or 22.2% in 1.” (pp. 56-57)