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Climate Change Adaptation in the Philippines

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Climate Change Adaptation in Southeast Asia

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Climate change adaptation in the Philippines has evolved from “no regret” solutions to serious mainstreaming into policies and development plans, which specifically address the country’s and the local governments’ vulnerabilities. Several priorities identified in the National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP) through a gap analysis following an inventory of climate change researches have already been done in the country, and areas that need further studies, as well as new and emerging issues, are highlighted in this chapter. The most number of research conducted in the Philippines under the NCCAP is in the areas of environmental sustainability and food security. The proposed pilot is to take San Vicente, a municipality located in the northwestern side of the Palawan Province, as a single socioecological system. A holistic adaptation approach for building resilience to climate change will be taken, bearing in mind the concepts of multifunctionality, transdisciplinarity, participation, complexity, and sustainability, specifically targeting the sub-components of resilience.

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Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge the ASEAN-India Green Fund for supporting the ASEAN-India Project on “Enhancing Local Level Climate Change Adaptation in Southeast Asia” (Phase 1). This chapter draws partly on findings of the ASEAN-India Project, specifically the local level needs assessment conducted in 2015.

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    Juan M. Pulhin & Maricel A. Tapia

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Pulhin, J.M., Tapia, M.A. (2022). Climate Change Adaptation in the Philippines. In: Pereira, J.J., Zain, M.K., Shaw, R. (eds) Climate Change Adaptation in Southeast Asia. Disaster Risk Reduction. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6088-7_8

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