Legal Pluralism, Cultural Values, and Post-Disaster Housing Project in a Philippine Municipality

This article argues that cultural values can act as dominant norms and subvert the state’s official law in the awarding of post-disaster shelters to Typhoon Ondoy (Tropical Storm Ketsana) victims in a housing project in the Philippines. Applying some tenets of legal pluralism and some qualitative da...

The International Journal of Sustainability Policy and Practice

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