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Project Goal

With rapid urbanization and dramatic growth of population in urban areas, the Philippines is experiencing increased pressures on its natural resources that contribute to the degradation of the urban environment. Furthermore, as the country is beset with problems such as flooding, landslides, earthquake and other hazards, it is important that municipalities continually update their Comprehensive Land Use Plans (CLUPs) to be able to guide the development of the municipality in the right direction.

The goal of the CLUP GIS Cookbook project is to make municipal planners able to use GIS as a tool in a step by step procedure on how to prepare a CLUP. With updated CLUPs, rationales for a sustained development of the municipalities are given and location of communities to safer areas is ensured.

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Business Problem Solved

At present, the majority of LGUs has no updated Comprehensive Land Use Plans. With this new guideline, local planners will be more confident and more capable to prepare, analyse and present the required information of the CLUPs to councillors, stakeholders and the public.

Technology Implemented

ArcGIS 9.1 will be used in the preparation of the step by step planning process

Development Team Biography

Ms. Emma Marilyn C. Ulep is the project manager of the 'Cookbook Project' and has a Masters of Arts in Urban and Regional Planning at the School of Urban and Regional Planning (SURP), University of the Philippines and a postgraduate degree in Geographic Information Systems at the ITC (Institute of Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences), Enschede, The Netherlands. She is a licensed Environmental Planner;

Mr. Christer Kjorneberg is a Swedish Consultant from Swedesurvey AB providing the technical assistance to HLURB. He is an architect, planner and GIS specialist having more than 30 years of experience in planning and GIS in Sweden and in developing countries.