Sociology-Anthropology Department and Manila Observatory: Partners in a 5-year IDRC- Managed Climate Change Research Program

 

 

Dr. Emma Porio, chairperson of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, School of Social Sciences and Ms. Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga, executive director of the Manila Observatory presented papers in the conference “Cities at Risk: Building Adaptive Capacities for Managing Climate Change Risks in Asian Coastal Cities” in Academia Sinica, Taipei last April 11-13, 2011. 

 

In Academia Sinica, they also attended the first research group meeting of “Coastal Cities at Risk: Building Adapative Capacity for Managing Climate Change in Coastal Mega-Cities”, which is part of a five-year research program managed by the International Development Research Center (IDRC) on“International Research Initiative on Adaptation to Climate Change”, a program designed to support vulnerable populations adapt to climate change. Manila Observatory (MO) will coordinate the research activities with partners in Vancouver, Bangkok and Lagos while Ateneo de Manila (Socio-Anthro, Physics, and Environmental Science) serves as the academic institution for graduate student training on climate change adaptation in the Philippines. 

 

The team members who developed and wrote the proposal which won the grant from IDRC are the following: Ibidun  Adelekan, Ian Burton, Jim Davies, Deborah Harford, Rob Lannigan, Antonia Yulo Loyzaga, Linda Mortsch, Slobodan Simonovic, Anond Snidvongs,  Ronald Stewart, Gordon McBean