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Core members: Joey Comiso (NASA, chair) Francis de los Reyes (NCSU, scribe) Felino Lansigan (UPLB)

Environmental Issues and Disaster Mitigation 31 st 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)

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Core members: Joey Comiso (NASA, chair) Francis de los Reyes (NCSU, scribe) Felino Lansigan (UPLB)

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  1. Environmental Issues and Disaster Mitigation 31st Annual PAASE Meeting & Symposium(31 APAMS)University of the PhilippinesNational Science Complex2011 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)

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Acknowledgements, Other Members of FGD5 • 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

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