INREM 2021
INREM 2021 KEYNOTE AND PLENARY SPEAKERS
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
DR. DENNIS P. GARRITY
Affiliation/Institution:
World Resources Institute
EverGreen Agriculture/World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
Dr. Dennis P. Garrity is a systems agronomist and research leader whose career has been focused on the development of small-scale farming systems in the tropics. He is currently Drylands Ambassador for the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute, and Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Nairobi. He served as Director General of the Centre from 2001 to 2011. He is currently focusing on building an African land restoration movement and is leading an effort to perennialize global agriculture in the 21st Century by chairing the global Partnership to Create an EverGreen Agriculture. He also chairs the Steering Committee for Landcare International, a worldwide effort to support grassroots community-based natural resource management.
During the 1990s he was based in Indonesia where he launched and developed the Southeast Asia Regional Programme of ICRAF. He served as the Regional Coordinator and Principal Agronomist in the Southeast Asian Regional Research Programme of World Agroforestry based in Bogor, Indonesia. As Head of the Farming Systems Program at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), and as a Professor at the University of the Philippines in the 1980s he advised 47 PhD and MSc students and post-doctoral fellows from Africa, Asia, Europe and the US, and published over 175 journal articles and books.
DENNIS GARRITY KEYNOTE ADDRESS/PRESENTATION: CODE RED AND CODE GREEN: REFLECTIONS ON THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL LANDSCAPE RESTORATION
PLENARY SPEAKERS:
DR. REX VICTOR O. CRUZ
Dr. Rex Victor O. Cruz is a Professor 12 and Scientist III at the College of Forestry and Natural Resources, UP Los Baños. He is a renowned expert in watershed management and in climate change mitigation and adaptation. His expertise and research interests include ecosystem and landscape planning and management upland development and integrated natural resources management. He is a staunch believer in preserving the biodiversity of watersheds and the prevention of further encroachment of destructive human activities. His expertise and contribution in these fields is evidenced by the close to 100 scholarly journal articles and technical papers he has published and in his involvement in various development projects.
He was a member of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former US Vice President Al Gore. He served as a Principal Lead Author and Convening Lead Author of the Assessment of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Second, Third and Fourth Assessment Reports.
Affiliation/Institution:
College of Forestry and Natural Resources, UP Los Baños
Member, United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
DR. REX VICTOR O. CRUZ PRESENTATION: River Basin Approach to Integrated Ecosystem Restoration for Resilience and SustainableDevelopment
DR. WlLFREDO Y. LICUANAN
Dr. Wilfredo Y. Licuanan is a Full Professor of the Biology Department and University Fellow of De La Salle University (DLSU). He is also a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, and a recipient of the 2018 Environmental Science Award and the 2021 Outstanding Book Award of the National Academy of Science and Technology, the 2016 Commission on Higher Education Republica Award, and 2013, 2017, and 2020 St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle Pillar of Excellence Award.
Al Licuanan is the Director of the DLSU Br. Alfred Shields FSC Ocean Research (SHORE) Center. Its Marine Station is where he conducts many research, educational, and extension activities about marine ecosystems and their interaction with coastal communities. He has been surveying and monitoring reefs for over thirty years. He has led research teams to many previously unstudied reefs from all around the country, including the Kalayaan Islands (where he discovered a coral species new to science), and the Pacific Ocean coasts from Luzon to Mindanao. In 2017, he completed a DOST-PCAARRD funded project that undertook a nationwide reassessment of the status of reefs around the Philippines. His focus now is setting up a national reef monitoring system involving government and volunteer citizen-scientists.
Affiliation/Institution:
De La Salle University
DR. WILFREDO (“AL”) LICUANAN PRESENTATION: REEF SEASCAPES
Dr. Diana S. Aga’s researches involve the development and applications of conventional and innovative analytical techniques to study the environmental fate and transport of emerging contaminants and endocrine-disrupting chemicals; treatment of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in wastewater; bioaccumulation of halogenated organic contaminants in fish and wildlife; target and non-target analysis of environmental contaminants; bioremediation of perfluoroalkyl substances; antibiotic resistance in the environment.
Some of the questions her researches intend to answer are: (1) how fast and by what means do these chemicals degrade?, (2) what are the major breakdown products of these compounds in the environment?, (3) how do environmental conditions affect the persistence and mobility of these contaminants? and (4) are these compounds of significant ecotoxicological concern?
DR. DIANA S. AGA
Affiliation/Institution:
Henry M. Woodburn Professor, Department of Chemistry
University at Buffalo, NY
DR. DIANA AGA PRESENTATION: CONTAMINANTS OF EMERGING CONCERNS IN THE ENVIRONMENT: OCCURRENCE, EFFECTS, AND TREATMENT
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Masters in Environment, Development, and Policy (2011), University of Sussex, England
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Protected Area Superintendent, Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park and World Heritage Site, 2001-present
ANGELIQUE MORATO SONGCO
Affiliation/Institution:
TUBBATAHA MANAGEMENT OFFICE,
Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park and World Heritage Site
Dr. Cora van Oosten is project manager at Wageningen University and Research. She teaches students, trains professionals, carries out research and provides advice to policymakers and practitioners worldwide. Her focus is on landscape approaches and landscape governance, particularly in relation to restoration. Based on 30 years of practical experience, she considers governance to be key to successful landscape restoration, as it addresses the questions of who decides on what to restore, where, how and for whom. Cora also works at the Global Landscapes Forum, leading in the design and development of the Landscape Academy, which is a multi-partner initiative to promote Restoration Education for All.
Dr. CORA VAN OOSTEN
Affiliation/Institution:
Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation
Wageningen University and Research
Dr. Cora van Oosten Presentation: Landscape Governance: From Analyzing Challenges to Capacitating Stakeholders
DR. BART REINHOLDT JOHNSON
Affiliation/Institution:
Department of Landscape Architecture
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon, USA
Dr. Bart Johnson's training in agronomy, landscape architecture and ecology reflect his lifelong passion for integrating people and their use of the land with native ecosystems and evolutionary processes. His research is collaborative and interdisciplinary, with the goal of enhancing society’s capacity to adapt and innovate in the face of climate change and human development. He believes that solutions must be founded in deep knowledge of how earth’s ecosystems sustain the foundations of life and provide the keys to humanity’s resilience and ongoing quest for environmental justice and equity.
His current research focuses on the interactions and feedbacks among climate change, wildfire, urbanization, rural settlement, endangered ecosystems and land management. The work integrates techniques and approaches from participatory planning, simulation modeling, manipulative experiments, prescribed fire, and historical vegetation reconstruction. The ecological context of these studies centers on Pacific Northwest oak savanna, upland prairie and wetland prairie, all imperiled ecosystems.
Dr. Johnson is the UO and international steering committee chair for the Sustainable Cities and Landscapes Hub (https://apru-scl.uoregon.edu/), an international consortium of 18 universities led by the UO under the auspices of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU).
Dr. Bart Reinholdt Johnson Presentation: A City-Landscape Approach to Regional Sustainability and Climate Resilience
Dr. Chihiro Yoshimura is an Associate Professor at the School of Environment and Society of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He leads a team developing novel water treatment systems based on the latest light source technology, light sensing and high-performance photocatalysts, and creating technologies for water environmental management and aquatic ecosystems.
Interests:
Environmental photochemistry, water quality model, and green infrastructure
DR. CHIHIRO YOSHIMURA
Dr. Chihiro Yoshimura PRESENTATION: NESTED ENVIRONMENTAL MODELS FOR INTEGRATED LAKE BASIN MANAGEMENT: AN EXAMPLE OF TONLE SAP LAKE, CAMBODIA
Affiliation/Institution:
School of Environment and Society
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tokyo, Japan
DR. OSAMU SAITO
Affiliation/Institution:
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
Dr. Osamu Saito is Principal Policy Researcher at Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES). As an expert in the field of biodiversity and ecosystem services, he has been working on the interlinkages between ecological, human and social systems through sustainability science approaches. His research experiences include socio-ecological studies on the ecosystem services provided by traditional rural production landscapes (Satoyama) in Japan, other Asian countries, and Sub-Sahara Africa. He has been also actively promoting various activities for Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) as a lead author of both regional and global assessments. He has been a managing editor of the Sustainability Science journal (Impact Factor 2020: 6.367) published by Springer Nature since 2011. He is also Visiting Associate Professor, the University of Tokyo, and Visiting Professor, University of Philippines. He published more than 120 peer-reviewed journal articles and 10 editted books including “Sharing Ecosystem Services: Building More Sustainable and Resilient Society” (Saito, 2020) and “Managing Socio-ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes for Sustainable Communities in Asia: Mapping and Navigating Stakeholders, Policy and Action (Saito et al. 2020).
Dr. Osamu Saito Presentation: Building Sustainable and Resilient Future of Small Islands Under Climate Ecosystem Changes
REVD. PROF ANDREW G. GOSLER
FLS, FRSB
Affiliation/Institution:
Professor of Ethno-ornithology: A joint position between the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology,
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, and the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Institute of Human Sciences, University of Oxford
(@agosler; @ewa_to_weet; andrew.gosler@zoo.ox.ac.uk; +44 1865 271158);
Fellow in Human Sciences, Mansfield College, University of Oxford;
EWA Research Director, Ethno-ornithology World Atlas, a collaboration between the University of Oxford,
BirdLife International and Lynx Edicions (www.ewatlas.net @ewa_to_weet)
Assistant Curate in the Benefice of Marston with Elsfield. Church of England
Revd. Prof Andrew G. Gosler has over 30 years’ experience of research and teaching in ecology, evolutionary biology and ornithology, his principal research is conservation and human relationships with birds.
His work in ornithology has fallen mainly within woodland bird ecology. From 1981 to 2012 he worked
with the Wytham Great Tit population. He still runs an active bird ringing group in Oxford, but since 2013 shifted his focus largely to ethno-ornithology – the study of birds, and the study of human engagement with birds, especially within the broad context of nature conservation. The Ethno-ornithology World Atlas (EWA) is his principal research project.
He co-edited with Sonia Tidemann the book Ethno-ornithology: Birds, Indigenous Peoples, Culture and Society, published in 2010. The book shows the broader context of ethnobiology, ethno-ornithology - the relatively localized anthropological studies of the ways in which indigenous people engage with birds for food, companionship, art, and inspiration - in connection with spirituality, and as a significant element of folk-taxonomy and tTaditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and how these diverse relationships are expressed linguistically (https://doi.org/10.4324/9781849774758).
A pioneer in ocean remote sensing in the Philippines, Dr. David is constantly tapped locally and internationally to assist in matters related to climate change vulnerability and adaptation. She is among the Outstanding Young Scientist awardees of the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) in 2007. She was among the recipients of The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service award in 2010 and a L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science National Fellow in 2011. Dr. David is also the Chair of the CHED Technical Committee on Marine Science, providing advice on the development of Marine Science programs in the country. Dr. David is one of the leading oceanographers and multi-awarded female scientists in the country, and is currently director of the UP Marine Science Institute (UP-MSI).
DR. LAURA T. DAVID
Affiliation/Institution:
Professor & Director, Marine Science Institute,
University of the Philippines
Diliman, Quezon City
DR. LAURA T. DAVID Presentation: Marine Protected Areas Are Investments Too (advancing Marine Ecosystems Resilience and Sustainable Development through INREM)
DR. MACRINA ZAFARALLA is reviving degraded shallow streams and rivers by the technique called Aquatic Macrophyte Biosorption System (AMBS), a very simple and doable technique that water plants could help by absorbing and adsorbing the pollutants dissolved in the water so fishes will thrive and multiply.
DR. MACRINA ZAFARALLA
Affiliation/Institution:
Institute of Biological Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences
University of the Philippines Los Banos
DR. MACRINA ZAFARALLA PRESENTATION: AMBS REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT: 2009-2021