For the eighth Heo/Geo Lecture Series, this talk draws from the experience of the Protect Wildlife Project, which developed an iterative method for piloting and scaling up Payments for Ecosystems Services (PES) as a means of securing additional funding for landscape restoration and management. These case study landscapes are located in the watersheds of Mt. Mantalingahan Protected Landscape in southern Palawan, Mount Matutum Protected Landscape in South Cotabato, and Bataan National Park in Bagac, Bataan. The talk which will be presented by Dr Trina Isorena is titled Paying for Nature’s Work: Cost-Based Valuation Strategy to Support Local PES. The lecture is jointly sponsored by the Philippine Geographical Society and the UP Department of Geography and will happen on Friday, 29 August 2025 at 5:30PM PHT.
The talk details the establishment of landscape-based PES systems starting from framework development, piloting, and replication to diversify the sources of funds for watershed protection, restoration, development, and management. It also includes the processes involved in setting up multiple PES agreements between watershed and protected area managers, as well as users and consumers of ecosystem goods and services.
Dr Trina Isorena is currently a senior lecturer at the UP Department of Geography where she handled graduate and undergraduate courses on river systems and watersheds, as well as digital cartography. Trina specializes in natural resource management, spatial planning, and the application of GIScience to environmental governance. Her interests include rural water management, land cover change analysis, REDD+ national forest monitoring system, resource tenure, community-based natural resource management, indigenous peoples’ rights, and ancestral domain mapping.
In her role as the Protect Wildlife Project’s Spatial Planning and GIS Manager, Dr Isorena contributed to the interdisciplinary team that developed the said PES system.
The monthly Heo/Geo Lecture Series was first conceived as a Brown Bag Colloquium and later easing into Geography Webbynar during the pandemic period. It was later rebranded as the Heo/Geo Lecture Series to capture not only the multiplicities of the discipline's specializations, but also on how it is pronounced in light of the increasing directive to provide space for geography's vernacularisation. Formally, the Heo/Geo Lecture Series is a discipline-based hobnobs where geography (as well as geography-adjacent) studies, extension and community work, industry pep talks, and spatial practices come together to meet and discuss. Sponsored by the Environment and Development Geographies (EDGE) research group of the UP Department of Geography, the talk is in line with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals #6 (Clean Water and Sanitation), #11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), #14 (Life Below Water), #15 (Life on Land).
To participate in Dr Isorena's lecture, please register via this link or just click this: https://tinyurl.com/6zwurcef
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