Asia and the Pacific Symposium Vulnerability Assessments to Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards: Extended Abstracts from the symposium held in Manila, Philippines 7–10 December 2010
Last year's symposium in the Philippines provided participants with the opportunity to enhance their capacity of conducting vulnerability assessment of various ecosystems. The Asia and the Pacific Symposium on Vulnerability Assessment to Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards was held in Manila, Philippines, 7–10 December 2010. It was jointly organized by the Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau (ERDB) and Asia Pacific Association of Forestry Research Institutions (APAFRI). The main objective of the symposium was to further enhance the capability and capacity of participants in conducting vulnerability assessment of various ecosystems. It served as a venue for exchange of knowledge and initiatives in vulnerability assessment. The symposium was also expected to come up with output materials that will be useful in preparing appropriate programmes/projects to deal with the inherent biophysical and socioinstitutional characteristics of ecosystems and the stressors of the resources including the impacts of climate change. The symposium was divided into three themes: Applications and Models; Vulnerability Assessment of Coastal Zones; Vulnerability Assessment of Watersheds.A total of 24 papers were presented, including keynote presentations of Dr. Rex Victor Cruz on vulnerability assessment of watersheds and Dr. Khali Aziz Hamzah on vulnerability assessment of coastal zones. The symposium brought together a total 45 local and international researchers, academicians and scientists from 14 countries across the Asia Pacific region. Vulnerability assessment of coastal zones using geospatial technologies; Khali Aziz Hamzah and Hamdan Omar; Development and application of a geospatial-based environmental index for watersheds to climate change in the Philippines; Cristino Tiburan Jr., Shintaro Kobayashi and Izuru Saizen; Incorporating vulnerability assessment principles into the integrated strategic environmental assessment of the northern province of Sri Lanka; Patabendi Maddumage Anura de Silva; Vulnerability assessment for integrated development of natural resources on
watershed basis in drought prone areas of Andhra Pradesh, India ; Suvarna Chandrappagari and Somesh Kumar; Modelling drought hazard, vulnerability and risk: A case study of Bangladesh; Shamsuddin Shahid; Analytical framework on the vulnerability of rural development in semi-arid area of Northern China: Assessment on the scale of community ; Zhang Qiaoyun, Lu Tingting, Liu Jinlong; An assessment of stand structure and carbon storage of a mangrove forest in Thailand ; Sapit Diloksumpun, DAmrong Sripraram, Ladawan Puangchit, Chongrak Wachrinrat,
Sakhan Teejuntuk, Aor Pranchai, Theerapong Chumsangsri and Nikhom Lamsak; Adaptation responses to coastal perturbations: The case of Prieto Diaz and Baler coastal dwellers in the Philippines ; Honorato Palis and Carmela Taguiam; Federated States of Micronesia Atoll Islands climate change and foods security vulnerability assessment; Jalesi Mateboto; Picturing climate change adaptation and vulnerability at community level in Indonesia ; Niken Sakuntaladewi and Setiasih Irawanti; Soil organic carbon loss through soil erosion in agro-ecological zones of
Merek Catchment, Iran ; Mosayeb Heshmati, Nik Muhamad Majid, J. Shamsuddin and Arifiin Abdu; Soil erosion and landslide vulnerability assessment of Mananga Watershed, Cebu, Philippines; Reynaldo L. Lanuza; Vulnerability assessment of Cugman River Watershed ; Manolito M. Pasco, Nida Picut and Antonio M. Daño; Assessment of the vulnerability to landslide of Lower Allah Valley Subwatershed at Mindanao, Philippines ; Maria Cristina A. Micosa, Monib L. Mamiscal and Bighani M. Manipula; Assessment of flood and landslide vulnerability for watershed management plan of Grindulu, Pacitan District, Indonesia ; Paimin and Sukresno; Landslide and fire vulnerability assessment of Bued River Watershed within the province of Benguet, Philippines; Anthony Victor Lopez, Helen A. Maddumba, Hipolito S. Baldo, Rhandy S. Tubal and Marylou G. Andrada; Development of indicators for assessing susceptibility of degraded peatland areas to forest fires in Peninsular Malaysia; Ismail Parlan, I. Shamsuddin and Khali Aziz Hamzah; Vulnerability assessment to biodiversity loss: A case of Western Himalaya of Nepal; Dhananjaya Lamichhane; Drought effects on Queensland’s vegetation net primary productivity: An analysis of 2000-2006 MODIS satellite imagery ; Armando Apan, Shunlin Liang and Tek Maraseni; Wood-boring beetle communities in Korean white pine forest and its implications to ecosystem vulnerability under the influence of climate change ; Jung-su Lee, Won Il Choi, Sang-Hyun Koh, Sangwook Park, Jongkok Lim and Seunghwan Lee; Monitoring of pollution level of area where acid mine drainage discharges in an abandoned coal mine using fast growing trees; Im-Kyun Lee, Yongho Jeong, Joohoon Lim and Kyungwon Seo; Climate change vulnerability and household level adaptation: A study on forest dependent communities in drought prone area of West Bengal, India ; Jyotish Prakash Basu; Vulnerability and adaptation of agricultural systems to the climate change threat – A study of the Perak River Basin; Hasnatul Farhana, H. and Khairulmaini O. S.
