Our team organized a session at the Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress 2022 (SRI2022), which was hosted from the University of Pretoria in South Africa. The SRI Congress is the world’s largest transdisciplinary gathering for the global sustainability community.
The title of our session was “Disaster Waste Management Capacity Development in the Global South.” Speakers from Fiji and the Philippines shared their experience in dealing with challenges related to disaster waste management (DWM) as well as their past, ongoing, and planned DWM capacity development initiatives. Speakers from Japan and Sweden shared lessons learned from their completed and continuing DWM capacity development projects in Global South countries. Here’s the 90-minute session program:
Session Overview: Glenn Fernandez (ECR Representative, Future Earth Assembly / Associate Professor, Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction, Sichuan University – Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)
Opening Remarks: Yoichi Toyama (Secretariat Director, Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research, Kobe, Japan
Makati, Philippines DWM experience in 2009 Typhoon Ketsana: Liza Velle Ramos (ECR / Head, DRRM Research and Planning Division, Makati City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, Philippines)
Lautoka, Fiji DWM experience in 2016 Cyclone Winston: Sainimere Veitata (PhD student, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan)
Japan Society for Materials Cycle and Waste Management (JSMCWM) Experience in Supporting DWM in the Global South: Shintaro Higashi (Member, JSMCWM / NTT Data Institute of Management Consulting, Inc., Japan)
Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) Experience in Supporting DWM in the Global South: Leif Jönsson (Environmental Field Advisor, MSB, Sweden)
International Recovery Platform (IRP) Experience in Supporting DWM in the Global South: Noralene Uy (Senior Researcher, International Recovery Platform Secretariat, Kobe, Japan)
Q&A / Panel discussion
Closing Remarks: Gretchen Kalonji (Professor and Dean, Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction, Sichuan University – Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)
Post-Typhoon Disaster Waste Management 