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Ateneo de Manila University

Filomeno V. Aguilar, Jr

Filomeno V. Aguilar, Jr. is Professor in the Department of History and former Dean of the School of Social Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University. He is the Chief Editor of Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints. He is also the current President of the Philippine Sociological Society (2011–2013). He has served as President of the International Association of Historians of Asia (2005–2006) and as Chair of the Philippine Social Science Council (2006–2008). He is on the editorial advisory boards of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Journal of Agrarian Change, Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, and Southeast Asian Studies.
After obtaining his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1992, he taught in the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, and then in the Department of History and Politics, James Cook University in north Queensland, Australia. After teaching for ten years overseas, he returned to the Philippines in 2003.
He is the author of Clash of Spirits: The History of Power and Sugar Planter Hegemony on a Visayan Island (University of Hawai'i Press and Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1998) and Maalwang Buhay: Family, Overseas Migration, and Cultures of Relatedness in Barangay Paraiso (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2009). He is the editor of Filipinos in Global Migrations: At Home in the World? (Philippine Migration Research Network and the Philippine Social Science Council, 2002). His most recent book is Migration Revolution: Philippine Nationhood and Class Relations in a Globalized Age (University of Hawai'i Press, 2014).
His research interests have been broadly interdisciplinary: nationalism and its intersections with race and ethnicity, especially in the early period of Filipino nationalism; the history and dynamics of Philippine global and transnational migrations, citizenship, and the family; Philippine popular political culture; the social histories of sugar and rice in the Philippines; the historical formation of class relations and cultures; contemporary religious movements; and magical worldview and social and historical change.

Dr Charlotte Kendra De ZUNIGA (Kendra Gotangco)

Charlotte Kendra de Zuñiga Gotangco obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics, minor in Philosophy,from the Ateneo de Manila University. She then earned her Masteral degree in Environmental Management from the Ateneo de Manila University and the University of San Francisco. She completed her doctoral degree in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Purdue University, USA. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Environmental Science of the Ateneo, and a researcher at the Manila Observatory. She teaches courses on environmental modeling, environmental management and integrative environmental science. She is interested in human-environment dynamics and the science-society nexus. Her projects have included harmonizing climate change adaptation and disaster risk management, applying the FORIN ("forensic investigations") approach to disaster risk, adapting a supply chain lens for climate vulnerability assessment of Metro Manila, and modeling resilience using systems dynamics.

Gemma Teresa NARISMA

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Maria Regina HECHANOVA-ALAMPAY

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Rosalina P. TAN

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Ma. Assunta CUYEGKENG

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Proceso FERNANDEZ Jr.

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Czarina SALOMA-AKPEDONU

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Inez Ponce DE LEON

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Michael PANTE

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Cooperation researcher

Enrique ORACION

I concurrently serve as Research Director and Professor of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of Silliman University in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental in central Philippines. It was also from Silliman University that I earned my Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees major in Sociology. My master’s thesis is about the socioeconomic adaptation of the Negritos—indigenous peoples in Negros Island—to their changing habitat caused by population change and massive deforestation. I completed my Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of San Carlos in Cebu City, also in central Philippines. For my dissertation, I examined the role of politics in the management sustainability of marine protected areas in a coastal municipality. Thus, my disciplinal interest is in environmental anthropology, which is broadly about human-environment interaction, but my publications are specific to gender issues, ecotourism and protected area management, culture of disaster and resiliency, and human well-being and ecosystem quality.

Robert II Guino-o

I am currently the Chairman of the Biology Department of Silliman University in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, Central Philippines. Under our Department are 24-personnel distributed as faculty, staff and a research center named Center for Tropical Conservation Studies (CenTrop) which conducts broad-based environmental researches. I earned my MS in Environmental Studies at Miriam College in Quezon City in 2005 and my BS and PhD degrees in Biology at the University of San Carlos Technological Center, Cebu City in 1988 and 2013, respectively. My previous engagements as an Environmental Resource Specialist in collaboration with the Salonga Law Center of Silliman University include: the formulation of the Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Environmental Code of Southern Leyte in 2009; the Environmental Code of Leyte in 2010; and various river assessment studies highlighting effects of flooding to the nearby residents. I am interested to be trained in Disaster Risk Reduction and Management in Japan because of the time-tested functional DRRM protocols that Japan has developed which I believed can be applied in an archipelago like the Philippines.
After typhoon Haiyan on November 8, 2013, concrete steps still have to be undertaken in localizing strategies to address disaster risk-sensitive sectors such as urban centers, water resources and agriculture which are vital to the achievement of our national development goals. In reality, we still have to integrate concrete steps in disaster risk reduction and management at the grass root level, more so, at the levels of the municipalities in an island-wide scale where dense populations are found. God-willing, I would like to envision myself being in the environmental management movement in my country for the next 25-30 years through my research and extension work in Silliman University.

Eduardo C. TADEM

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Roy Olsen DE LEON

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Persie SIENES

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Wilma TEJERO

Assist. Prof. Wilma Tejero is currently the Chairperson of the Economics Department of Silliman University. She earned her Master of Arts in Economics from Ateneo de Manila University and MBA from Silliman University. Ms. Tejero was the Project Coordinator for the ADB funded project in 2013 where Silliman served as the Assisting Institution for Regions V, VII, and XI, in the establishment of Regional Integrated Coastal Resources Management Centers. In 2007, she was sent to Madras School of Economics, Chennai India for training in Environmental Economics. This was followed by a one-month In-House training on Resource Valuation at UP Los Baňos. She was among the 5 Filipinos trained by EEPSEA (Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia) together with 15 other participants from Southeast Asia nations on Applied Econometrics for Resource Valuation and Cost-Benefit Analysis at Dusit Thani Hotel Makati for 3 weeks. In 2013, Ms. Tejero headed the CHED-PHERNET Funded Project: Estimating the Total Damages of the 2012 Earthquake in Negros Oriental Philippines on People, Economy and Environment using Total Economic Value Approach. Ms. Tejero is currently the team leader for a CHED-PHERNET funded project entitled Recovery and Continuity of Local Businesses and the Local Residents’ Resiliency in the Aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan..

Jorge Emmanuel

Jorge Emmanuel is a Visiting Scholar and future Balik Scientist researcher at Silliman University where he is doing research on climate change adaptation including disaster risk reduction and renewable energy technologies. From 2003 to 2015, he was Chief Technical Advisor of the United Nations Development Program where he led teams of technical experts in some 18 countries on environmental and health projects. He was a consultant for the United Nations Environment Program, United Nations Industrial Development Program, World Bank, World Health Organization, and other agencies, working in over 40 countries. As president of the Environmental & Engineering Research Group in California in the 1990s, he worked on disaster risk management and industrial safety. He received his doctorate in chemical engineering in 1988 at the University of Michigan, his MS in chemical engineering at North Carolina State University, and his BS in chemistry. He also holds certificates in energy technologies from Stanford University, in public health from University of Iowa, and in environmental hazards management from the University of California at Berkeley.

Kristian Karlo SAGUIN

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Jake Rom CADAG

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Benigno BALGOS

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