Perlie Velasco is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of the Philippines – Los Baños (DCE, UPLB). She is the lead faculty in Environmental Engineering at the department with research projects in constructed wetlands and integrated solid waste management. She got her undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering at UPLB and master’s degree in Water Resources Engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Currently, she is pursuing her PhD degree in Environmental Engineering at RMIT University, Melbourne Australia, with research on the recovery of dissolved methane from wastewater effluent.
Recent work
Water Treatment in Urban Environments: A Guide for the Implementation and Scaling of Nature-based Solutions
Project final report: Integrated assessment of existing practices and development of pathways for the effective integration of nature-based water treatment in urban areas in Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and Vietnam
Achievements, challenges, opportunities and the importance of regional collaboration: Perspective from an APN project on nature-based solutions for urban water treatment
Offshoots of APN CRRP2021-06MY-Jegatheesan Project
Guide Questionnaire: Enhancing Water Resource Management in the Philippines
Guide Questionnaire: Enhancing Water Resource Management in Vietnam
Mapping Existing Nature-based solutions for Water Treatment in the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Vietnam
Guide Framework for the Implementation of Constructed Wetlands in the Philippines
