ARCP2008-09CMY-Espaldon
| Title |
Assessing Vulnerability of Communities and Understanding Policy Implications of Adaptation Responses to Flood-related Landslides in Asia |
| Research Theme |
Crosscutting issues and science-policy linkages
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| Countries Involved |
China, Nepal, Philippines, Viet Nam
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| Project Leader |
Dr. Ma. Victoria O. Espaldon; School of Environmental Science and Management, PHILIPPINES; Email: voespaldon@yahoo.com |
| Summary of Project |
The project addresses three crosscutting themes of APN's science agenda by tracing the links of both extreme climate events and unsustainable land use patterns to the occurrence and consequences of landslides through vulnerability assessment. It promotes the APN's science policy agenda by applying an agent-based tool that explicitly models not only the link between affected people and their environment (human ecosystem), but also the decision processes of concerned authorities on adaptation. Because the modelling activities require close interaction with policy and planning authorities to provide input to and validate the output of the model, the project facilitates a two-way transfer of knowledge between science and policy. The project aims to identify landslide-prone areas in selected countries in Asia, such as China, Nepal, Philippines and Viet Nam and assess their vulnerability to flood-related landslide events by developing an agent-based modelling framework that could be used as a tool for decision and policy making. As these countries represent parts of Asia (i.e. East, South, and Southeast) with different economic, political, social, and cultural settings, the project compares the adaptive behaviour of vulnerable people and adaptation decisions of policy-makers. |
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