Hopefully, less thrash/garbage on New Year's Eve celebrations. And enough of air-polluting and hand/finger-destroying fireworks.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Hopefully, less thrash/garbage on New Year's Eve celebrations. And enough of air-polluting and hand/finger-destroying fireworks.
Friday, December 17, 2010
2010 Advanced Training Workshop on Southeast Asia Regional Health Impacts and Adaptation under Climate Change
Tribute to my group, Group 1, whose research proposal was judged as the best in the culminating activity of the 2010 Advanced Training Workshop on Southeast Asia Regional Health Impacts and Adaptation under Climate Change, held in Tainan City, Taiwan on Nov. 24-30, 2010. Our research proposal is entitled, “Impact Assessment of Climatic Disasters on Health: Case Studies on Selected Southeast Asian Countries.” It was evaluated and ranked by four public health experts and our co-participants. Shown in the picture, after the announcement of the winning group, are my groupmates, namely: Uma Langkulsen (Thailand), Norela Sulaiman (Malaysia), Ramzah Dambul (Malaysia), Hoa Pham Thi (Viet Nam), and me, Ebinezer Florano(Philippines). We are now looking for possible sources of funds to conduct it.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
REFLECTIONS ON THE ROLE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION
by
Paula Bianca Reyes
BA Public Administration
National College of Public Administration and Governance
University of the Philippines-Diliman
Climate change represents the greatest environmental, social and economic failure the world has seen. Although we can say that by almost every measure, life is the easiest at present, we cannot deny the fact that climate change is happening faster, with larger impacts and bigger risks.
Public administration is a "field of inquiry with a diverse scope", of which the fundamental goal is to advance management and policies so that government can function (Rabin 1989). Through planning, budgeting, implementation and monitoring of different policies, the role of Public Administration in climate change adaptation and mitigation is becoming visible nowadays. It is concerned with the vital process of policy formulation and implementation. It is public demand that will create solutions. Through the different laws and policies created by our government, we are guided to take part in the transformation. According to James Meadowcroft, creating and implementing different public policies, institutions, plans and measures, shaped with effectiveness, efficiency and equity will promote mitigation of, and adaptation to, human induced climate change.
Presence of good leaders, officials and legislators will initiate good climate change governance. The government can do something like creating strategic policy frameworks, setting up governance innovations that would change the patterns of productions and consumptions and so as the development and deployment of technologies. Public Administration’s task is to build greater public awareness and understanding of the importance of climate change adaptation.
Public participation and responsiveness is very essential in addressing climate change. The government must educate the public about climate change and the consequences that we are all facing because of it. Public awareness must be present for all these to happen. Public administrators then begin to set up appropriate organizational responses- considering the national interest of the Philippines. There are many policy options for promoting climate change mitigation. The government has to analyze the most appropriate strategy and pursue most vigorously the measures that address the country’s economic, social and environmental goals.
For the very first time in the history, every country is faced with a common threat that is likely to trigger humanity and other forms of life and Public Administration has a significant role in climate change adaptation and mitigation.
*References:
Meadowcroft, James (2009). “Climate Change Governance.” World Bank Policy Policy Research Working Paper No. 4941.
Rabin, Eds Jack, Handbook of Public Administration. 1989: Marcel Dekker, NY. p. iii
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by
Karlo James Diaz
BA Public Administration
National College of Public Administration and Governance
University of the Philippines-Diliman
What is the role of Public Administration in climate change adaptation and mitigation? The question can be dissected into two parts. On one hand is the expression of the need for climate change adaptation and mitigation and on the other is the presentation of a subject capable of coordinating conformity and compliance to formulated and accepted methods on carrying both about.
With climate change, the very cycles in nature are disturbed and restructured. The general rule of thumbs is for its inhabitants to develop ways of either adapting to the changes or trying to minimize the rate of change and altogether preventing it or the mixture of both. How this would be uniformly imbibed throughout a locale becomes a point of concern.
The state is the instrument for which social order is derived and accepted norms are upheld. It is the organization obligated to deliver basic services to alleviate social ills and secure the welfare of its denizens whether to maintain the status quo or institutionalize deviations from a familiar pattern of living. It is the perfect device for the purposes of the advocacy.
Public Administration is how the implementation could be concretized and in order to survive this global threat that is climate change, it must be properly utilized stretching the imagination to its limits and using its concepts in the most beneficial manner. Governance for example requires the participation of the government, the private sector, and the civil society in a harmonized manner. Research in the sciences and technologies and the assimilation of values are necessary to reach the ends.
Concrete examples in this execution include the engaged commitment of leaders to the cause and creation of political bodies specifically designed for climate change adaptation and mitigation, shift of paradigm from using traditional energy sources to alternative sources of energy and putting a premium on using eco-friendly technology. It is important to stress that climate change is not a phantasm concept and that its dangers are serious and not just products of the minds of overly imaginative theoretical scientists.
Readily dismissed as a foregone conclusion, the inevitable increase in the earth’s temperature due to the continuing rise of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere warrants the shift in archetype of policies by the government through Public Administration in a two-pronged manner which is adaptation to the problem and efforts on its mitigation. Before reaching an international resolution regarding climate change which is a very tasking endeavor, nations within their selves must realize their own strategic policy framework with the interest of the people they serve in mind.
Paula Bianca Reyes
BA Public Administration
National College of Public Administration and Governance
University of the Philippines-Diliman
Climate change represents the greatest environmental, social and economic failure the world has seen. Although we can say that by almost every measure, life is the easiest at present, we cannot deny the fact that climate change is happening faster, with larger impacts and bigger risks.
Public administration is a "field of inquiry with a diverse scope", of which the fundamental goal is to advance management and policies so that government can function (Rabin 1989). Through planning, budgeting, implementation and monitoring of different policies, the role of Public Administration in climate change adaptation and mitigation is becoming visible nowadays. It is concerned with the vital process of policy formulation and implementation. It is public demand that will create solutions. Through the different laws and policies created by our government, we are guided to take part in the transformation. According to James Meadowcroft, creating and implementing different public policies, institutions, plans and measures, shaped with effectiveness, efficiency and equity will promote mitigation of, and adaptation to, human induced climate change.
Presence of good leaders, officials and legislators will initiate good climate change governance. The government can do something like creating strategic policy frameworks, setting up governance innovations that would change the patterns of productions and consumptions and so as the development and deployment of technologies. Public Administration’s task is to build greater public awareness and understanding of the importance of climate change adaptation.
Public participation and responsiveness is very essential in addressing climate change. The government must educate the public about climate change and the consequences that we are all facing because of it. Public awareness must be present for all these to happen. Public administrators then begin to set up appropriate organizational responses- considering the national interest of the Philippines. There are many policy options for promoting climate change mitigation. The government has to analyze the most appropriate strategy and pursue most vigorously the measures that address the country’s economic, social and environmental goals.
For the very first time in the history, every country is faced with a common threat that is likely to trigger humanity and other forms of life and Public Administration has a significant role in climate change adaptation and mitigation.
*References:
Meadowcroft, James (2009). “Climate Change Governance.” World Bank Policy Policy Research Working Paper No. 4941.
Rabin, Eds Jack, Handbook of Public Administration. 1989: Marcel Dekker, NY. p. iii
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by
Karlo James Diaz
BA Public Administration
National College of Public Administration and Governance
University of the Philippines-Diliman
What is the role of Public Administration in climate change adaptation and mitigation? The question can be dissected into two parts. On one hand is the expression of the need for climate change adaptation and mitigation and on the other is the presentation of a subject capable of coordinating conformity and compliance to formulated and accepted methods on carrying both about.
With climate change, the very cycles in nature are disturbed and restructured. The general rule of thumbs is for its inhabitants to develop ways of either adapting to the changes or trying to minimize the rate of change and altogether preventing it or the mixture of both. How this would be uniformly imbibed throughout a locale becomes a point of concern.
The state is the instrument for which social order is derived and accepted norms are upheld. It is the organization obligated to deliver basic services to alleviate social ills and secure the welfare of its denizens whether to maintain the status quo or institutionalize deviations from a familiar pattern of living. It is the perfect device for the purposes of the advocacy.
Public Administration is how the implementation could be concretized and in order to survive this global threat that is climate change, it must be properly utilized stretching the imagination to its limits and using its concepts in the most beneficial manner. Governance for example requires the participation of the government, the private sector, and the civil society in a harmonized manner. Research in the sciences and technologies and the assimilation of values are necessary to reach the ends.
Concrete examples in this execution include the engaged commitment of leaders to the cause and creation of political bodies specifically designed for climate change adaptation and mitigation, shift of paradigm from using traditional energy sources to alternative sources of energy and putting a premium on using eco-friendly technology. It is important to stress that climate change is not a phantasm concept and that its dangers are serious and not just products of the minds of overly imaginative theoretical scientists.
Readily dismissed as a foregone conclusion, the inevitable increase in the earth’s temperature due to the continuing rise of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere warrants the shift in archetype of policies by the government through Public Administration in a two-pronged manner which is adaptation to the problem and efforts on its mitigation. Before reaching an international resolution regarding climate change which is a very tasking endeavor, nations within their selves must realize their own strategic policy framework with the interest of the people they serve in mind.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Forum on REDD+ and Corruption in the Environment Sector
The Center for Policy and Executive Development (CPED) of the U.P. National College of Public Administration and Governance (UP-NCPAG) invites everyone to attend its Forum on "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) and Corruption in the Environment Sector" on Wednesday, 15th December 2010, 1 to 5PM at the Case Room of the UP-NCPAG Building, Diliman Campus, Quezon City. See you all at the REDD+ and Anti-Corruption Forum!
Speakers:
1. Dr. Bernd-Markus Liss - "REDD+ and Governance Issues"
GTZ Principal Advisor
DENR-BMU REDD Project
2. Ms. Marlea P. Munez - "REDD+ and Corruption"
President
Women's Initiatives for Society, Culture and Environment, Inc.
3. Atty. Daniel M. Nicer - "DENR's Anti-Corruption and Integrity Agenda"
Assistant Secretary
Administrative Reforms and Anti-Corruption Measures
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
4. Dr. J. Prospero E. de Vera III - "The Anti-Corruption Agenda of the Aquino Administration"
Professor and Director
Center for Policy and Executive Development, UP-NCPAG
Moderator: Dr. Ebinezer R. Florano
Friday, December 3, 2010
Community-Based Vulnerability Assessment for Climate Adaptation
By Vangie Padilla on Sep 25th, 2010
Source: PangalaTALK.com - Pangasinan's Finest News Source
http://www.pangalatalk.com/newscontent.php?ShowNews=409
A workshop on "Community-Based Vulnerability Assessment for Climate Change Adaptation" for the city was conducted last September 20 by undergraduate students in public administration of the University of the Philippines National College of Public Administration and Governance (UP-NCPAG) at the Product Center in Poblacion Oeste here.
The workshop sought to draw up and share prevalent issues on climate change adaptation measures. Participants were appraised on various climate change-related disasters that have hit Dagupan for the last 30 years, including their types, frequencies, magnitudes, and damages. Department of the Interior and Local Government Officer Rhoderick Dawis provided the participants inputs on the frequency, magnitude and damages the city suffered from the 1990 earthquake, while City Health Officer Leonard Carbonell presented the climate change adaptation measures of Dagupan.
Based on the students’ output, Dagupan will be greatly vulnerable to great floods, earthquake and storm surges by the time the effect of global warming peaks ten years from now. Professor Ebinezer R. Florano, assistant professor of the UP NCPAG said, "People have the right to be informed on the possible ramifications of climate change to local situations especially on the people’s main source of livelihood here, the fishponds."
"The people need not be afraid but they have to be prepared," said Florano. In his message, City Administrator Vladimir T. Mata said for the program to succeed, "we need to change the mindset of our people so they will learn to accept the program." He cited the mayor’s main program anchored on his inaugural message that Dagupan is 'our city, our shared responsibility'," The city will be provided with a copy of the report on the workshop, which will be used in the city's risk estimation and valuation. (CIO – Joseph C. Bacani)
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