Glossary/List of Abbreviations

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Abbrevations

CODE NAME Description

A&D Alienable and Disposable

BBIM Barangay Boundary Index Map/s

BI Base Map

BSWM Bureau of Soils and Water Management

CAD Computer Aided Design

CADC Certificate of Ancestral Domain Claim

CALT Certificate of Ancestral Land Title

CARP Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program

CBD Central Business District

CBMS Community Based Monitoring System

CDP Community Development Plan

CD-ROM Compact Disk - Read Only Memory

CEO Chief Executive Officer

CLOA Certificate of Land Ownership Award

CLUP Comprehensive Land Use Plan

CPDO City Planning and Development Officer

DA Department of Agriculture

DAO DENR Administrative Order

DBMS Data Base Management System

DENR Department of Environment and Natural Resources

DILG Department of Interior and Local Government

DOE Department of Energy

ELA Executive Legislative Agenda

EM Environment

FMB Forest Management Bureau

GDP Gross Domestic Product

GIO Geographic Information Officer

GIS Geographic Information System

GIT Geographic Information Technology

GPS Global Positioning System

HLURB Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board

HLURB CO Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board Central Office

IATFGI Inter-Agency Task Force Geographic Information

ID Identification

IPC Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines

IPD Information Product Description

IRA Internal Revenue Allotment

IS Infrastructure

ISF Integrated Social Forest

IT Information Technology

JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group

LAN Local Area Network

LC Land Classification

LCE Local Chief Executive/s

LDIP Land Development Investment Plan

LGU Local Government Unit

LM Land-use Management

LMB Land Management Bureau

LRA Land Registration Authority

MBIM Municipal Boundary Index Map/s

MDG Millenium Developemt Goals

MIMS Municipal Index Maps

MPDC Municipal Planning and Development Coordinator

MPDO Municipal Planning and Development Office

NAMRIA National Mapping and Resource Information Agency

NGA National Government Agencies

NHI National Historical Institute

NIPAS National Integrated Protected Areas System

NSCB National Statistical Coordination Board

NSO National Statistics Office

OCR Optical Character Recognition

PAWB Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau

PBS Political Boundary Survey

PC Personal Computer

PCLUP Provincial Comprehensive Land Use Plan

PIMS Provincial Index Maps

POPCOM Population Commission

PPCS Philippine Plane Coordinate System

PPFP Provincial Physical Framework Plan

PRS 92 Philippine Reference System of 1992

PSGC Philippine Standard Geographic Code

PSIC Philippine Standard Industrial Code

PTM Philippine Transverse Mercator

SAFDZ Strategic Agriculture and Fisheries Development Zones

SB Sangguniang Bayan

SE Socio-economic

SP Sangguniang Panlalawigan

SURP School of Urban and Regional Planning

SW Software

TIFF Tagged Image File Format

TOR Terms of Referrence

TRANSCO National Transmission Corporation

UPS Uninterrupted Power Supply

USB Universal Serial Bus

UTM Universal Transverse Mercator

WAN Wide Area Network

WGS 84 World Geographic System of 1984

ZO Zoning Ordinance

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Glossary
TERM DEFINITION

Aerial Photographs Photographs mounted from above where the camera is mounted on an
aircraft

Agrarian Reform is a barangay at the minimum or a cluster of contiguous barangays where

Community there is a critical mass of farmers or farm workers and which features the
main thrust of agrarian development land tenure improvement and effective
delivery of support services

Agricultural Lands refers to lands devoted to or suitable for the cultivation of the soil, planting
of crops, growing of trees, raising of livestock, poultry, fish or aquiculture
production, including the harvesting of such farm products, and other farm
activities and practices performed in conjunction with such farming
operations by persons whether natural or juridical and not classified by the
law as mineral land, forest land, residential land, commercial land, or
industrial land.

Agricultural Land Use refers to the process of changing the use of agricultural land to non-
Conversion agricultural uses.

Agricultural Sector is the sector engaged in the cultivation of the soil, planting of crops, growing
of fruit trees, raising of livestock, poultry, or fish, including the harvesting
and marketing off such farm products, and other farm activities and
practices.

Agricultural is the development, adoption, manufacture and application of appropriate

Mechanization location-specific, and cost-effective agricultural technology using human,
animal, mechanical, electrical and other non-conventional sources of energy
for agricultural production and post-harvest operations consistent with
agronomic conditions and for efficient and economic farm management.

Agriculture and Fisheries is the process of transforming the agriculture and fisheries sectors into one
Modernization that is dynamic, technologically advanced and competitive yet centered on
human development guided by the sound practices of sustainability and the
principles of social justice.

Agro-Processing refers to the processing of raw agricultural and fishery products into semi-
processed or finished products which include materials for the manufacture
Activities for food and/or non-food products, pharmaceuticals and other industrial
products.

Alienable and Disposable those lands of the public domain which have been the subject of the present
Lands system of classification and declared as not needed for forest
purposes.

Ancestral Domain Subject to Section 56 hereof, refer to all areas generally belonging to
ICCs/IPs comprising lands,inland waters, coastal areas, and natural resources
therein, held under a claim of ownership, occupied or possessed by ICCs/IPs,
themselves or through their ancestors, communally or individually since time
immemorial, continuously to the present except when interrupted by war,
force majeure or displacement by force, deceit, stealth or as a consequence
of government projects or any other voluntary dealings entered into by
government and private individuals, corporations, and which are necessary
to ensure their economic, social and cultural welfare. It shall include
ancestral land, forests, pasture, residential, agricultural, and other lands
individually owned whether alienable and disposable or otherwise, hunting
grounds, burial grounds, worship areas, bodies of water, mineral and other
natural resources, and lands which may no longer be exclusively occupied by
ICCs/IPs but from which their traditionally had access to for their subsistence
and traditional activities, particularly the home ranges of ICCs/IPs who are
still nomadic and/or shifting cultivators;

Attribute Data describes characteristics of the spatial features. These characteristics can be
quantitative and/or qualitative in nature. Attribute data is often referred to
as tabular data Banks, collective used, means government banks and private
banks, rural banks and cooperative banks.

Basic Needs Approach to involves the identification, production and marketing of wage goods and
Development services for consumption of rural communities.

Cadastral Map Maps generated from Cadastral Survey

Communal Irrigation is an irrigation system that is managed by a bona fide Irrigators Association.
System (CIS)

Competitive Advantage refers to competitive edge in terms of product quality and/or price. It
likewise refer to the ability to produce a product with the greatest relative
 efficiency in the use of resources.

Cooperatives refers to duly registered associations of persons with a common bond of

interest who have voluntarily joined together to achieve a lawful common
social and economic end, making equitable contributions to the capital
required and accepting a fair share of the risks and benefits of the
undertaking in accordance with universally accepted cooperatives principles.

Coping capacity: Capacity refers to the manner in which people and organizations use existing
resources to achieve various beneficial ends during unusual, abnormal, and
adverse conditions of a disaster event or process. The strengthening of
coping capacities usually builds resilience to withstand the effects of natural
and other hazards.

Damage The amount of destroyed or damaged property asset, the injury of people
and environment as a consequence of an occurred hazard.

Damage potential The amount of property asset in a threatened area.

Disaster A hazard might lead to a disaster. A disaster by itself is an impact of a hazard

on a community or area usually defined as an event that overwhelms that
capacity to cope with.

Economic Scale refers to the minimum quantity of volume of goods required to be efficient.

Economies of Scale refers to the decrease in unit cost as more units are produced due to the
spreading out of fixed costs over a greater number of units produced.

Empowerment involves providing authority, responsibility and information to people

directly engaged in agriculture and fishery production, primarily at the level
of the farmers, fisher folk and those engaged in food and non-food
production and processing, in order to give them wider choices and enable
them to take advantage of the benefits of the agriculture and fishery
industries.

Exposure The economic value or the set of units related to each of the hazards for a
given area. The exposed value is a function of the type of hazard.
Extension Services refers to the provision of training, information, and support services by the
government and non-government organizations to the agriculture and
fisheries sectors to improve the technical, business, and social capabilities of
farmers and fisher folk.

Farmers and Fisherfolks refer to farmers and fisher folks cooperatives, associations or corporations
Organizations or duly registered with appropriate government agencies and which are
Associations composed primarily of small agricultural producers, farmers, farm, workers,
agrarian reform beneficiaries, fisher folk who voluntarily join together to
form business enterprises or non-business organizations which they
themselves own, control and patronize.

Farm-to-Market Roads refer to roads linking the agriculture and fisheries production sites, coastal
landing points and post-harvest facilities to the market and arterial roads
and highways.

Fisheries refers to all systems or networks of interrelated activities which include the
production, growing, harvesting, processing, marketing, developing,
conserving, and managing of all aquatic resources and fisheries areas.

Fisheries Sector is the sector engaged in the production, growing, harvesting, processing,
marketing, developing, conserving, and managing of aquatic resources and
fisheries areas.

Fishing refers to the application of techniques using various gear in catching fish and
other fisheries products.

Fishing Grounds refers to areas in any body of water where fish and other aquatic resources
congregate and become target of capture.

Food Security refers to the policy objective, plan and strategy of meeting the food
requirements of the present and future generations of Filipinos in
substantial quantity, ensuring the availability and affordability of food to all,
either through local production or importation, of both, based on the
countrys existing and potential resource endowment and related production
advantages, and consistent with the over all national development
objectives and policies. However, sufficiency in rice and white corn should be
pursued.
Forest Land the permanent forest or forest reserves, and forest
reservations.

Fresh Agricultural And refers to agricultural and fisheries products newly taken or captured directly
Fishery Products from its natural state or habitat, or those newly harvested or gathered from
agricultural areas or bodies of water used for aquiculture.

Geohazard Maps maps showing the location of areas prone to Geohazards like volcanoes,
tsunami, landslide, earthquake, ground subsidence and storm surges.

Georeferencing Assigning map coordinates to an image. Usually involves resampling of pixels

to extrapolate the values for the new pixels

Geospatial Data also known as spatial data or geographic information. Refers to information
that identifies the geographic location of natural or constructed features and
boundaries on the earth, including the oceans. This information is available
to University students, faculty and staff either via the GIS office in the
Library, or, for some software, via a public or home computer via the GIS
website.

Global Competitiveness refers to the ability to compete in terms of price, quality and value of
agriculture and fishery products relative to those of other countries.

Gross Value-Added refers to the total value, excluding the value of non-agricultural of fishery
intermediate inputs, of goods and services contributed by the agricultural
and fisheries sectors.

Hazard typology The hazard typology clusters hazards that are somehow interrelated to each
other. It is a basis for the development of the typology of regions.

Head works refers to the composite parts of the irrigation system that divert water from
natural bodies of water such as river, streams, and lakes.

Hazard A property or situation that in particular circumstances could lead to harm.

More specific, a hazard is a potentially damaging physical event,
phenomenon or human activity, which may cause the loss of life or injury,
property damage, social and economic disruption or environmental
degradation. Hazards can be single, sequential or combined in their origin
and effects. Each hazard is characterized by its location, intensity and
 probability.

Industrial Dispersal refers to the encouragement given to manufacturing enterprises to establish

their plants in rural areas. Such firms normally use agricultural raw materials
either in their primary or intermediate state.

Information Products refers to the instructional components needed to present a CLUP Step in a
comprehensive way. They consist of tables, graphs and maps in both digital
and paper-based formats.

Irrigable Lands refers to lands which display marked characteristics justifying the operation
of an irrigation system.

Irrigated Lands refers to lands services by natural irrigation or irrigation facilities. These
include lands where water is not readily available as existing irrigation
facilities need rehabilitation or upgrading or where irrigation water is not
available year-round.

Irrigation System refers to a system of irrigation facilities covering contiguous areas.

Irrigators Association refers to an association of farmers within a contiguous area served by a

(IA) National Irrigation System or Communal Irrigation System.

Land Classification classify the lands

of the public domain into:
(a) Alienable or disposable,
(b) Timber, and
(c) Mineral lands,

Land Classification Map Map showing the land classification done by NAMRIA
Land Cover

Land Use refers to the manner of utilizing the land, including its allocation,
development and management.

Land Use Plan refers to a document embodying a set of policies accompanied by maps and
similar illustrations which represent the community-deserved pattern of
population distribution and a proposal for the future allocation of land to the
 various land-using activities, in accordance with the social and economic
objectives of the people. It identifies the location, character and extent of
the areas land resources to be used for different purposes and includes the
process and the criteria employed in the determination of the land use.

Land Use Planning refers to the act of defining the allocation, utilization, development and
management of all lands within a given territory or jurisdiction according to
the inherent qualities of the land itself and supportive of sustainable,
economic, demographic, socio-cultural and environmental objectives as an
aid to decision-making and legislation.

Land-use planning Land-use Planning creates policies at the local/municipal level that guide
how the land (inside the administrative borders of a municipality) and its
resources will be used. The main instrument of land-use planning is zoning or
zoning ordinances, respectively. Land-use planning is situated below the
regional planning level.

Liquefaction The process in which a solid (soil) takes on the characteristics of a liquid as a
result of an increase in pore pressure and a reduction in stress. In other
words, solid ground turns to jelly.

Losses The amount of realized damages as a consequence of an occurred hazard.

Main Canal refers to the channel where diverted water from a source flows to the
intended area to be irrigated.

Market Infrastructure refers to facilities including, but not limited to, market buildings,
slaughterhouses, holding pens, warehouses, market information centers,
connecting roads, transport and communication and cold storage used by
the farmers and fisher folk in marketing their produce.

Metadata Data about data. Includes information describing aspects of actual data
items, such as name, format, content, and the control of or over data.

Mineral Lands refer to those lands of the public domain which have been classified as such
by the Secretary of Natural Resources in accordance with prescribed and
approved criteria, guidelines and procedure.

Mitigation or disaster A proactive strategy to gear immediate actions to long-term goals and
mitigation objectives.

Municipal Waters Include not only streams, lakes and tidal waters include within the
municipality, Guidebook on Sustainable not being the subject of private
ownership, and not comprised within national Coastal Land Use Planning &
parks, public forest, timber lands, forest reserves, but also marine waters
include Management 1977 between two lines drawn perpendicularly to the
general coastline from points where the boundary lines of the municipality
or city touch the sea at low tide and a third line parallel with the general
coastline and fifteen (15) kilometers from it. Where two (2) municipalities
are so situated on the opposite shores that there is less than (15) kilometers
of marine waters between them, the third line shall be equally distant from
opposite shores of the respective municipalities (Section 131{r}, Republic
Act No. 7160)

National Information refers to an information network which links all offices and levels of the
Network (NIN) Department with various research institutions and local end-users, providing
easy access to information and marketing services related to agriculture and
fisheries.

National Irrigation refers to a major irrigation system managed by the National Irrigation
System (NIS) Administration. Network of Protected Areas for Agricultural and Agro-
industrial Development (NPAAAD refers to agricultural areas identified by
the Department through the Bureau of Soils and Water Management in
coordination with the National Mapping and Resources Information
Authority in order to ensure the efficient utilization of land for agriculture
and Agro-industrial development and promote sustainable growth . The
NPAAAD covers all irrigated areas, all irrigable lands already covered by
irrigation projects with firm funding commitments; all alluvial plain land
highly suitable for agriculture whether irrigated or not; Agro-industrial crop
lands or lands presently planted to industrial crops that support the viability
of existing agricultural infrastructure and agro-based enterprises, highlands,
areas located at an elevation of five hundred (500) meters or above and
have the potential for growing semi temperate and high-value crops; all
agricultural lands that are ecological fragile, the conversion of which will
result in serious environmental degradation, and mangrove areas and fish
sanctuary/ies.

On-Farm Irrigation refers to composite facilities that permit entry of water to paddy areas and
Facilities consist of farm ditches and turnouts.

Orthophoto An aerial photo that has been corrected to eliminate the effects of camera
tilt and relief displacement. The ground geometry is recreated as it would
appear from directly above each and every point.

Preparedness Readiness for short term activities, such as evacuation and temporary
property protection, undertaken when a disaster warning is received.

Primary Processing refers to the physical alteration of raw agricultural or fishery products with
or without the use of mechanical facilities.

Projection A map projection is any of many methods used in cartography (mapmaking)

to represent the two-dimensional curved surface of the earth or other body
on a plane. The term "projection" here refers to any function defined on the
earth's surface and with values on the plane, and not necessarily a geometric
projection.

Post -Harvest Facilities includes, but it is not limited to, threshers, moisture meters, dryers,
weighing scales, milling equipment, fish ports, fish landings, ice plants and
cold storage facilities, processing plants, warehouses, buying stations,
market infrastructure and transportation.

Premature Conversion of refers to the undertaking of any development activity, the results of which
Agricultural Land modify or alter the physical characteristics of the agricultural lands to render
them suitable for non-agricultural purposes, without an approved order of
conversion from the DAR.

Public Forest the mass of lands of the public domain which has not been the subject of the
present system of classification for the determination of which lands are
needed for forest purposes and which are not.

Raster Also referred to as bitmap images, these are images that are represented by
a sequence of pixels (picture elements) or points, which when taken
together, describe the display of an image on an output device. There are
many different raster image formats in use, among them GIF, JPEG, PCX, and
TIFF.
Reaction While mitigation is characterized by long-term actions, reaction aims at
short-term actions in case of an occurring disaster. Reaction comprises
preparedness, response and recovery.

Recovery This constitutes the last step of post disaster actions, such as rebuilding or
retrofitting of damaged structures.

Regional plan (as defined for the purpose of ESPON 1.3.1 Hazards): The spatial plan of an
administrative area (superior to the municipal level); is part of the official
(national of federal) planning system; makes statements and/or
determinations referring to the spatial and/or physical structure and
development of a region (spatial distribution of land use: infrastructure,
settlement, nature conservation areas etc.); has impacts on the subordinate
levels of planning hierarchy (local level, e.g. municipal land use plans etc.);
textual and cartographic determinations and information normally refer to
the scale 1:50 000 to 1:100 000.

Regional Planning Regional planning is the task of settling the spatial or physical structure and
development by drawing up regional plans as an integrated part of the
formalized planning system of a state. Thereby regional planning is required
to specify aims of spatial planning which are drawn up for an upper, state, or
federal state wide level. The regional level represents the vital link between
the state-wide perspective for development and the concrete decisions on
the land use taken at local level within the land-use planning of the
municipalities.

Remote Sensing A means of acquiring information using airborne equipment and techniques
to determine the characteristics of an area. Aerial photographs from aircraft
and satellite are the most common form of remote sensing

Resource Accounting refers to a tracking changes in the environment and natural resources
biophysically and economically (in monitory terms)

Resource-based refers to the utilization of natural resources.

Response The term of response contains three different meanings: 1) as an element

within the DPSIR chain, 2) in a general meaning as a spatial planning answer
as proposed in the tender and 3) as a narrower term which describes specific
reactions immediately after a disaster has occurred. Response in the broader
 sense means the sum of long-term actions (mitigation in terms of planning
responses) and short-term actions (reaction) to prevent disasters or mitigate
their impacts. In this case it is linked to the Response chain link of the DPSIR
chain. In a narrower sense, response is a part of short-term actions
(reaction) when a disaster occurs. Then, response means short-term
emergency aid and assistance, such as search-and-rescue operations, during
or following the disaster.

Risk A combination of the probability or frequency of occurrence of a defined

hazard and the magnitude of the consequences of the occurrence. More
specific, a risk is defined as the probability of harmful consequences, or
expected loss (of lives, people injured, property, livelihoods, economic
activity disrupted or environment damaged) resulting from interactions
between natural or human induced hazards.

Risk analysis Risk analysis is the mathematical calculation including the analysis of a
hazard (frequency, magnitude) and its consequences (damage potential).

Risk assessment Risk assessment consists of risk estimation and risk evaluation.

Risk estimation Risk estimation is concerned with the outcome or consequences of an

intention taking account of the probability of occurrence.

Risk evaluation Risk evaluation is concerned with determining the significance of the
estimated risks for those affected: it therefore includes the element of risk
perception.

Risk perception Risk perception is the overall view of risk held by a person or group and
includes feeling, judgment and group culture.

Risk reduction Risk reduction may be defined as the consequence of adjustment policies
which intensify efforts to lower the potential for loss from future
environmentally extreme events. (Mileti, et al. 1981; Nigg and Mileti. 2002).
Such adjustment policies may refer to a broad range of guidelines, legislation
and plans that help to minimize damage potential (i.e. exposure to a hazard
or maximizing coping capacity of a region or community by, e.g.
guaranteeing resources and preparing adequate plans for pre-disaster
mitigation and post-disaster response measures). Risk reduction involves
both policy/regulatory issues and planning practices. In other words, risk
 reduction as defined above is the result of what has earlier been defined
as risk management related response (prevention orientated mitigation,
non-structural mitigation, structural mitigation, and reaction).

Rural Industrialization refers to the process by which the economy is transformed from one that is
predominantly agricultural to one that is dominantly industrial and service-
oriented. Agriculture provides the impetus and push for industry and
services through the market that it creates, the labor that it absorbs, and the
income that it generates which is channeled to industry and services. As
development continues, with agriculture still an important sector, industry
and services begin to generate income and markets and concomitantly
increase their share of total income.

Satellite Image A picture of the earth taken from an earth-orbital satellite. Satellite images
may be produced photographically or by on-board scanners (eg, MSS).

Storm Surge A rise of the sea, preceding a storm (usually a hurricane) due to the winds of
the storm and low atmospheric pressure.

Strategic Agriculture and refers to the areas within the NAPAAD identified for production, Agro-
Fisheries Development Processing and marketing activities to help develop and modernize, either
Zones (SAFDZ)" the support of government, the agriculture and fisheries sectors in an
environmentally and socio-cultural sound manner.

Secondary Canal refers to the channel connected to the main canal which distributes
irrigation to specific areas.

Secondary Processing refers to the physical transformation of semi-processed agricultural or

fishery products

Sectoral planning Sector in terms of sectoral planning means the spatial planning under
consideration of only one planning criteria (e.g. traffic, environmental
heritage, etc.). Sectoral approaches are (in the ideal case) weighted and
combined in the context of comprehensive development planning. Sectoral
as well as comprehensive planning can take place on different administrative
levels.

Sensitivity/highly In general, sensitivity describes how a system responds to permanent

influences. In the context of the ESPON 1.3.1 Hazards project, the highly
sensitive areas sensitive areas are defined as those areas that are most sensitive towards
the entirety of all hazards. In terms of the chosen methodology the highly
sensitive areas are represented by risk intensities of 8, 9 and 10 (red, brown
and black colours in the colour scheme of the synthetic risk map).

Shallow Tube Well (STW) refers to a tube or shaft vertically set into the ground for the purpose of
bringing ground water to the soil surface from a depth of less than 20 meters
by suction lifting.

Small Farmers and refers to natural person dependent on small-scale subsistence farming and
Fisherfolk fishing activities as their primary source of income.

Small and Medium refers to any business activity or enterprise engaged in industry, agribusiness
Enterprise (SME) and/or services, whether single proprietorship, cooperative, partnership or
corporation whose total assets, inclusive of those arising from loans but
exclusive of the land on which the particular business entity's office, plan
and equipment are situated, must have value falling under the following
categories:
Micro - not more than P 1,500,000
Small - P 1,500,001 to P 15,000,000
Medium - P15,000,001 to P 60,000,000
The Department, in consultation with the Congressional Oversight
Committee on Agricultural and Fisheries Modernization, may adjust the
above values as deemed necessary.

Spatial Data Data that define a location. These are in the form of graphic primitives that
are usually either points, lines, polygons or pixels.

Spatial typology This is a general term that describes the result of a clustering process that is
based on relevant spatial data. Consequently, the typology of regions is a
spatial typology.

Socio-culturally Sound means the consideration of the social structure of the community such as
leadership pattern, distribution of roles across gender and age groups, the
diversity of religion and other spiritual beliefs, ethnicity and cultural diversity
of the population.

Technology-based refers to utilization of technology.

Typology At its simplest level, a typology involves the clustering of a large number of
items (variety of descriptions) into smaller groups by virtue of their shared
characteristics. In the ESPON 1.3.1 Hazards project, the term typology is used
in different contexts:

Typology of regions The typology of regions clusters areas in Europe, which are threatened by
similar hazards. This typology does not consider the aspect of vulnerability
and it is therefore a hazard based typology instead of a risk based typology.
In the typology of regions, interactions between certain hazards are taken
into consideration.

Typology of risk / risk A risk typology clusters risks into groups by the characteristics of probability
typologisation (and certainty of assessment), extent of damage (and certainty of
assessment), ubiquity, persistency, irreversibility, delay effect and
mobilization potential. The typology of risk distinguishes the risk types of
Cyclops, Damocles, Pythia, Pandora, Cassandra and Medusa.

Vector Data A coordinate-based data structure commonly used to represent map

features. Each line feature is represented as a list of ordered x, y
coordinated. Attributes are associated with the feature (as opposed to a
raster data structure, which associates attributes with a grid cell). Traditional
vector data structures include arc-node models vertex one point along a line.

Unclassified Lands Lands which have not yet been subjected to land classification

Unique ID

Urban Area (1) If a barangay has a population size of 5,000 or more, then a barangay is
considered urban, or
(2) If a barangay has at least one establishment with a minimum of 100
employees, a barangay is considered urban, or
(3) If a barangay has 5 or more establishments with a minimum of 10
employees, and 5 or more facilities within the two-kilometer radius from the
barangay hall, then a barangay is considered urban. (Source: NSCB
Resolution No. 9, Series of 2003)

Vulnerability Vulnerability is the degree of fragility of a person, a group, a community or

an area towards defined hazards. In a broader sense, vulnerability is defined
as a set of conditions and processes resulting from physical, social,
 economical and environmental factors, which increase the susceptibility of a
community to the impact of hazards. Vulnerability is determined by the
potential of a community to react and withstand a disaster, e.g. its
emergency facilities and disaster organization structure (coping capacity).

Zoning Zoning is the local governments tool that regulates land-use, promotes
orderly growth, and protects existing property owners by ensuring a
convenient, attractive and functional community. Zoning is the way the local
governments control the physical development of land and the kinds of uses
to which each individual property may be put.

Zoning Ordinance refers to a local legislation approving the development land use plan and
providing for the regulations and other conditions on the uses of land
including the limitation of the infrastructure that may be placed within the
territorial jurisdiction of a city or municipality.

A feasibility study is a preliminary study undertaken before the real work of a project starts to ascertain
the likelihood of the project's success. It is an analysis of possible alternative solutions to a problem and
a recommendation on the best alternative. Wikipedia

PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 1505

AMENDING PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 260, AS AMENDED, BY PROHIBITING THE UNAUTHORIZED

MODIFICATION, ALTERATION, REPAIR AND DESTRUCTION OF ORIGINAL FEATURES OF ALL NATIONAL
SHRINES, MONUMENTS, LANDMARKS AND OTHER IMPORTANT HISTORIC EDIFICES

WHEREAS, Presidential Decree No. 260 dated August 1, 1973, as amended, has declared certain sites,
churches and places as national shrines, monuments, and/or landmarks, and placed their preservation,
restoration and/or reconstruction under the supervision and control of the National Historical Institute
in collaboration with the Department of Tourism;

WHEREAS, Sec. 4 of said Presidential Decree specifically vests the National Historical Institute with the
right to declare historical and cultural sites and edifices as national shrines, monuments, and/or
landmarks;
WHEREAS, Presidential Decree No. 1 dated September 24, 1972 reorganizing the government, has
assigned to the National Historical Institute the preservation, restoration, and/or reconstruction of
several historic sites and buildings;

WHEREAS, some private individuals and entities have undertaken the repair and alteration of historic
edifices without the prior written permission of the National Historical Institute resulting in the change
of the original features of such edifices;

WHEREAS, such moves adversely affect the efforts of the Philippine government, in general and of the
National Historical Institute, in particular, in the preservation of our cultural heritage through the
conservation of our historic sites and buildings; and

WHEREAS, there is a need to safeguard the improvements that have been made by the National
Historical Institute in the development, preservation, reconstruction and restoration of said national
shrines, and to prevent the careless and unscientific modification of the original features of important
monuments, landmarks and historic edifices;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers
vested in by the Constitution,, do hereby order and decree:

Section 1. Presidential Decree No. 260 is hereby amended by inserting another section after Sec. 4 to
read as follows:

"Sec. 5. It shall be unlawfully for any person to modify, alter, repair or destroy the original features of
any national shrine, monument, landmark and other important historic edifices declared and classified
by the National Historical Institute as such without the prior written permission from the Chairman of
said Institute.

Any person who shall violate this Decree shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment for not
less than one year nor more than five years or a fine of not less than one thousand pesos nor more than
ten thousand pesos or both, at the discretion of the court or tribunal concerned."

Sec. 2. Sections 5 and 6 of the same Decree are hereby renumbered Sec. 6 and 7 respectively.

Sec. 3. This Decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 11th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-
eight.