Climate risk analysis on the food security of Saguday, Quirino province
Presented by: Dr. Jose Carandang VI, Biology Department, College of Science, De La Salle University
Date of presentation: 20 February 2015
Venue: Tereso Lara Seminar Room, (LS230), De La Salle University
Abstract
Abstract of the Research Project Climate change is considered to be a pandemonium not only to the environment but also to the lives of the people. This can be curtailed by conducting an in-depth risk analysis (e.g. risk assessment and risk management), which is an elucidation to a plausible chaotic condition. For the Risk Assessment, the USEPA standard method, Monte Carlo Simulation/Modeling, is used in Risk Assessment in order to determine the optimal value of risks in terms of hazard (e.g. Tropical Cyclone, Drought, Floods), exposure (e.g. population, plantations, farming), and vulnerability (Human Development Index, Poverty Incidence, Gross Domestic Product). These risks are equated to the financial correspondence using the Cost-Benefit and Policy analyses. For the Risk Management, the DPSIR Model, which is another globally accepted structure, is introduced in the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) through the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA). Saguday, Quirino Province, a fourth class municipality, is chosen as the prototypical subject in this research because it has become a natural laboratory for every mutilated visit of the different perils.
About the Authors:
Glenn S.P. Banaguas of De La Salle Araneta University aims to do research with a positive impact not just on marginalized peoples but also on the environment. Banaguas is involved in the modeling of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions, solid waste management, biodiesel production for the university and its partners, policy creation for power and energy management. He uses global climate models, mathematics simulations and algorithms, geographic information systems to study environmental change, such as to identify hot spots and to determine the intensity of tropical cyclones, sea level rise, global temperature.
Dr. Jose Santos R. Carandang VI is a full professor of Biology at De La Salle University where he is currently the Dean of the College of Science. His recent research involvement is on food security in collaboration with Dr. Robert Taylor of Montclair State University, New Jersey in the USA, as well as in the management and biological control of invasive species affecting food production. Dr. Carandang is a product of the University of Wuerzburg in Germany where he earned his doctorate in Natural Science and where he did a number of his post-doctoral researches. He also has a Master in National Security Administration degree from the National Defense College of the Philippines and a Master of Science in Biology from De La Salle University. Dr. Carandang was the founding director of the De La Salle Food Institute. He also was the Member for Biology of the Commission on Higher Education – Technical Panel for Science and Mathematics.
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