About The Project
In the Philippines, it is feared that frequent water-related disasters by future climate change will hinder the sustainable development of local municipalities and exacerbate overconcentration in Metro Manila. This project aims to create hybrid water-related disaster risk assessment models by combining climate-change, hydrological, agricultural, and economic models and conduct objective assessments of the effectiveness of investing in disaster prevention measures in the Pampanga River basin and the Pasig-Marikina River and Laguna Lake basins in the environs of Metro Manila. Policy recommendations for sustainable economic development in urban and rural areas under climate change will be formulated through a transdisciplinary approach using the hybrid water-related disaster risk assessment models in order to achieve the sustainable economic development of the country by improving water-related disaster resilience and promoting balanced national land development.
The project is a collaboration between the University of the Philippines Los Banos Interdisciplinary Studies Center for Water (UPLB IdSCW) in the Philippines and the International Center for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM) in Japan as Principal Research Organizations. Also part of the research team are University of the Philippines Diliman and University of the Philippines Mindanao. Cooperating agencies from the government are the Department of Science and Technology - Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (DOST-PAGASA), Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) and Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA).
The project is divided into 4 study groups, each with its own unique set of activities and required outputs to contribute in the project. The groups are Group 1: Data Collection and Sharing, Group 2: Flood and Drought Risk Assessment, Group 3: Resilience Assessment and Group 4: Sustainable Local Economic Development.
Project Purpose
Policy recommendations for sustainable economic development in urban and rural areas under climate change are formulated based on hybrid water-related disaster risk assessment technology covering climate change, hydrology, agriculture, and socio-economic activity in target basin.
Project Objectives
To achieve the highly accurate assessment of flood and drought risks by developing and using a hybrid assessment model covering climate change, hydrological processes, agriculture (crop growth) and socio-economic activity with a DIAS-based big-data platform
To evaluate the benefits of pre-disaster investments by applying the hybrid assessment model to the target local municipalities and make policy proposals for the sustainable economic development of local municipalities in general
Overall Goal
To enhance the resilience and promote the sustainable economic development of local municipalities by incorporating policy proposals in local and national climate change action plans, thereby contributing to reducing the over-centralization in the metropolitan area and facilitate balanced national land development