Transcript A STRATEGY TOWARD FUNCTIONAL POLYFLUORENES: …

Environmental Issues
and Disaster Mitigation
31st Annual PAASE Meeting & Symposium
(31 APAMS)
University of the Philippines
National Science Complex
2011
Core members:
Joey Comiso (NASA, chair)
Francis de los Reyes (NCSU, scribe)
Felino Lansigan (UPLB)
William Padolina (IRRI)
Rodel Lasco (UPLB)
Mahar Lagmay (UPD)
Michelle Almendrala (Mapua)
Fernando Siringan (UPD)
What are the challenges and issues?
 Areas of Discussion
 Satellite data and risk monitoring - Comiso
 Indicators of climate change - Lansigan
 Agriculture - Padolina
 Forestry -Lasco
 Water and Sanitation - de los Reyes/Almendrala
 Subsidence and Sea Level Rise - Bato/Siringan
 Challenges
 Climate change - increasing SST and land temp., higher frequency of
extreme events
- CC impacts on food production, biodiversity, forests, water, cities
 Need for more data
 Educational gaps
 Weak regulatory and enforcement framework
- Science-based? Long-term? Good for the majority, esp. the
marginalized poor?
 Defragmentation of water sector
 Overpumping of groundwater
 Tragedy of the Commons
SOLUTIONS
 Data!
 Increase access to satellite data
 Maximize potential for Phil.- problem is time resolution
 Power of collaborations
 Increase density of weather gauging stations
 Increase access to weather data (PAGASA)
 Need more analysis of rainfall data
 Increase collection of/access to hydromet data
 Expand localized early warning system
 Obtain data on biodiversity and forest cover
 Education
 Biology and systems biology - need to include in engineering
 Environmental engineering (water/wastewater, solid waste,
hazardous waste, air, groundwater, systems)
 Policy
 Are our policies science-based (ex. forest cover, water treatment)
Are they looking at the long-term? Are they looking at the greatest
good for the greatest number?
 Comprehensive Land Use Planning Law
 Participation of private sector - e.g., rice situation
SOLUTIONS
 Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) measures
 Knowledge-based crop forecasting system
 Update design standards (e.g., flooding)
 Incorporate climate risk assessment in comprehensive land use
plan
 Monitoring and lead time for early warning systems
 Food production technologies
 Alternative crops, integrated cropping
 New rice varieties - salt, drought, heavy metal tolerance,
biotic factors
 Deploying new varieties - address market issues
 Nitrogen biochemistry
 Ecosystems-based adaptation
 Natural infrastructure, indigenous people, connectivity
 Water and sanitation
 Address defragmentation of water sector
 Look at alternative and new technologies - compare small and
large-scale, potential of decentralized systems
 Look at recommendations of sanitation roadmap
 Address groundwater pumping in Manila
Acknowledgements, Other Members of FGD5
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E. Patulot
M. Amaro, Jr.
E. Gangor
D. Apodaca
D. Palmes
G. Aquino
M. Roa
N. Alibuyog
E. Bacani
A. Amante
B. Pacheco
M. G. Bato
R. Lloren
B. M. Solivio
G. Perez
M. Chan