This issue features assessment studies on the: 1) risks, sense of place, and preparedness of communities along a river; 2) climate change and civil-military coordination; 3) adaptive capacity to flooding of household in lakeshore communities; 4) disaster preparedness index of households and LGUs; 5) risk and impacts of tropical cyclones on banana production in the Philippines.
Tacloban City is one of the hardest hit cities of the 2013 Super Typhoon Haiyan. Aside from the recorded thousands of death, Haiyan is predicted to have altered the terrestrial ecology of the affected area. In particular, this study investigated the probable impact on water resources as a result of the change in forest cover resulting from Haiyan.
Typhoons cause damage to mangrove ecosystems, hampering their delivery of ecosystem goods and services, including coastal protection. We examined the vegetation resistance (VR) and seedling regeneration potential (SRP) of three mangrove genera: Rhizophora, Sonneratia and Avicennia at the seafront areas..
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