Parallel Session 1: Environmental and Maritime Security
Fishing in Troubled Waters: How China’s Maritime Militia Weaponises Psychological and Economic Pressures in the South China Sea
Wee Yi Ren Mark
Securitizing the Climate Pandemic Nexus: The ASEAN Integration of Public Health in Regional Climate Diplomacy
John Nicolas B. Mejia
Mangroves as a Strategic Asset: Enhancing Economic Resilience through Blue Carbon Ecosystems
Agnes Chung Balota
Marine Scientific Research in Minilateral Environmental Diplomacy Toward Collective Sea Power in the South China Sea
Irvin Hibaler
Moderator:
Dr. Rodrigo Angelo Ong
Research Fellow
Conservation and Biodiversity Program
UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies
Parallel Session 2: Climate Change and Disaster Resilience
Heritage and Resilience: A Review of Risk Assessments and Adaptation Measures towards Heritage Churches in the Philippines
Ken Emmanuel Merluza
Bahay, Buhay, Baha: Exploring the Housing Experiences of Chronically Flood-Displaced Low-Income Households in Tumana, Marikina
Mary Dei P. Advincula & Nikka Ysabel Duran
Shifting Terrain: a phenomenological and thematic analysis of the economic and social costs of flooding in once resilient communities in the Philippines
Heinz Herald S. Capati, Alyssa Andrea P. Amatong Gabriel M. Gan & Marc Justin P. Wong
Moderator:
Mr. Dennis de la Torre
Chief Science Research Specialist
Research and Creative Work Division
UP Resilience Institute
Parallel Session 3: Information and Technology
Peering through the Clouds: the impact of regional weather patterns on China’s growing space-based collection platforms
Marvin H. Bernardo
The Mise-En-Scène of Philippine Defense: The Political Economy of Film as Foreign Policy
Ruth Anna Julia S. Castro
Cybersecurity and National Security: A Historical Overview
Mark Pere Madrona
Moderator:
Mr. Ranjit Singh Rye, MPA
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of the Philippines – Diliman