Can disasters be averted and mitigated with the judicious help of a network of tools and workflows? Find out for this month's Heo/Geo Lecture Series.
It is said that the physical conditions and existing socioeconomic vulnerability of a geographical environment combined with the threat of a hazard, determines the way that disasters are formed—the spatial extent of impact and the scale of losses. This relationship between the geographical environment and disasters may be perceived as cyclically causal in nature but there is more to it than meets the eye. This is due to the development of disaster risk reduction and management practices in the discipline of geography where it has been widely used. Additionally, there is an indication that the geographical environment, both its physical and social elements, has adapted through natural as well as anthropogenic processes. These practices are manifested through tools, workflows, and linkages that collectively aim to mitigate the impacts of disasters and anchored in the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments.
For the ninth Heo/Geo Lecture Series, the UP Department of Geography and the Philippine Geographical Society proudly present a talk from geography alumnus Keith Landicho. Taking place via Zoom on Friday, the 2nd of June 2023 at 5:00PM, the lecture is entitled Outsmarting Disasters: Geographically-rooted Tools, Workflows, and Linkages. Keith's presentation features examples and applications of tools, workflows, and linkages utilized in the ASEAN humanitarian sphere to reduce disaster, hence a step towards outsmarting disasters.
A BS Geography graduate of UP Diliman, Keith Paolo C. Landicho is a Disaster Monitoring and Analysis Officer at the ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on disaster management (AHA Centre) and is a certified Security Risk Management Professional - Country Level contributing to the reduction of disaster losses in the ASEAN region. Keith’s seven (7) years of professional experience comprises work in the fields of disaster risk reduction and management, environmental conservation, urban heat island studies, and humanitarian response. Specializing in geospatial data analytics, Keith uses that experience to ensure that crucial knowledge and information from disasters, research, as well as policies, connects to the community, its people, and its support systems.
This Heo/Geo Lecture Series not only features speakers from the academe but also field-based practitioners working for civil society, industry, popular education, and for multiple community advocacies. This presentation is part of the many activities the UP Department of Geography and Philippine Geographical Society lined up in observance of the 40th anniversary of the discipline of geography's institution as a separate and standalone degree-granting department -- the only one of its kind in the whole archipelago.
To participate for this talk, please register through this link. Or you can click this link as well - https://up-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtfuGqrDoqEtPKvJPNp3XE6G_QltF54kG5#/registration
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