UP Resilience Institute launched a virtual sandbox to explain why patchwork flood control does not work.
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“UP Resilience Institute's virtual sandbox is a tactile way to explain to stakeholders why patchwork flood control does not work”
— DJ Darwin Bandoy DVM PhD|UP Resilience Institute team
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UP Resilience Institute
A proactive hub of benchmark information vital to the nation’s efforts in climate change mitigation and adaptation.
- Industry
- Research Services
- Location
- Quezon City, PH
- Company size
- 70 employees
The UP Resilience Institute was established as a proactive hub of benchmark innovative information vital to the nation’s efforts in climate change mitigation and adaptation. Its mission is to empower local communities through multidisciplinary actions toward resilience. As a response through its Memorandum No. PAEP-16-67, the University of the Philippines Board of Regents (BOR) approved on 28 July 2016 the establishment of the University of the Philippines Resilience Institute (UP RI) under the Office of the President of UP to have the following functions and programs concerning multi-hazard, multidisciplinary, multisectoral, comprehensive disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM).
Founded 2016