International Conference Panel "ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND PUBLIC POLICY", June 28, 1-5 p.m., EDSA Shangri-la, Mandaluyong City, Philippines

 UP-NCPAG International Conference

Invitation: Panel 2-A on “ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND PUBLIC POLICY” in the 2012 International Conference on Public Administration (UP-NCPAG@60), 28 June 2012, 1-5 p.m., EDSA Shangri-la Hotel, Mandaluyong City, Philippines

Chair:    PROF. EBINEZER R. FLORANO, PhD

                Assistant Professor

                University of the Philippines-National College of Public Administration and Governance

Speakers:

1.       HON. MEL SENEN S. SARMIENTO

Representative, Western Samar, 1^st District,

House of Representatives, Republic of the Philippines

“Best Practices in Climate Change Adaptation”

2.       DEAN ANTONIO G.M. LA VIÑA, JSD

Professor and Dean

Ateneo School of Government,  Ateneo de Manila University

“Issues, Problems and Challenges Related to Climate Change Governance in the Philippines: A Policy Science Approach”

3.       MS. KALAYAAN PULIDO-CONSTANTINO

Oxfam-Philippines

Disaster Risk Financing in the Philippines

4.       DR. ANDREAS LANGE

GIZ Decentralization Program

“Land Use Planning for Climate Change Adaptation in the Philippines: What Can Be Done?”

5.       MR. TITO FORTES

City Climate Change Project Office

Sorsogon City, Philippines

“Climate Change and Local Governance in Sorsogon City”

6.       LT. COL. VLADIMIR T. MATA

Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office

Dagupan City, Philippines

“Coastal Climate Change Adaptation: Case of Dagupan City”

LECTURE: Green Climate Fund by Dr. Sarah Bracking

Title:  Private Equity Funds and the Green Climate Fund:How Successful are Financial Institutions at Delivering Development and Managing Environmental Harm?

Date and Time: 26 June 2012, 2:00-5:00 p.m.

Venue: Case Room or Room 307, National College of Public Administration and Governance, University of the Philippines (CLCD), UP-NCPAG), Diliman, Quezon City

Contact Person:  Mr. Don Jeffery Quebral, Center for Leadership, Citizenship, and Democracy (UP-NCPAG), Tel. No. 925-4109 or 981-8500 local 4158

Lecturer: Dr. Sarah Bracking is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Development at the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, England.

Dr. Bracking attended first York University in the United Kingdom (BA Hons Politics), then Leeds University (MA, International Resources and Development; PhD, Structural Adjustment, Business and the State). She then worked as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Democratisation Studies at Leeds University, principally on the International IDEA State of Democracy Project. She then moved to the University of Manchester where she is currently a Senior Lecturer, teaching “Politics and Development and the Political Economy of Development.” She is editor of Corruption and Development (Palgrave, 2007) and author of Money and Power (Pluto, 2009). . Dr. Bracking is currently completing a book on The Financialisation of Power in Africa.

Her research interests include political economy and political science on African States and markets, and comparative political analysis of democracies and democratization; malign politics, political corruption, authoritarianism and state collapse; poverty and the political economy of impoverishment, dispossession and destitution, and development finance and its relation to the global political economy.       

Reactors: From relevant sectors, i.e., academe, business, government and NGOs