disaster

Comparing flood risk drivers and adaptation responses in Indonesia and the Philippines
Keywords:

Disaster · Exposure · Flooding · Vulnerability

Comparing flood risk drivers and adaptation responses in Indonesia and the Philippines

The drivers of flood risk are increasingly complex, intertwined and local. International comparative analysis of these local socio-environmental systems has the potential to strengthen governance mechanisms of flood risk. This research presents two case studies from Indonesia and the Philippines, showing distinct patterns of flood risk shifts. We show how what appear to be disparate...

Opdyke, A., Meilianda, E., Alfian, D., Santiago, J., E. Mendoza, J., Delmendo, P.A., ... A. Lagmay, A.M.F. (2025). Comparing flood risk drivers and adaptation responses in Indonesia and the Philippines. APN Science Bulletin, 15(1). doi:10.30852/sb.2025.2885

Coastal forest management in the face of global change: Experience of four Asian countries
Keywords:

Coastal forest management · Disaster · Indigenous knowledge · Mitigation

Coastal forest management in the face of global change: Experience of four Asian countries

The cross-country study examined community-based coastal forest management and policies on how integrating coastal forest management with human settlement planning and local livelihoods needs can strengthen community resilience towards climate change impacts confounded with other global changes like land use-land cover change, biological invasion and loss of biodiversity and economic globalization and planetary changes like...

Liang, L., Yiu, E., Camacho, L., Gevaña, D., Oo, T., Sein, C., . . . Nagata, A. (2017). Coastal forest management in the face of global change: Experience of four Asian countries. APN Science Bulletin, 7(1). doi:10.30852/sb.2017.70