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INNOVATIONS IN

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

IN HIGHER EDUCATION

by Raymundo D. Rovillos

Tuesday, 21 June 2011, 10:00 a.m.CSC Research Laboratory

University of the Philippines Baguio

Today, universities all over the world are called upon tosummon their will and mobilize their resources to

address the growing uncertainties engendered by globaleconomic recession, climate change, social injustice, and

ecological damage. The concept of “sustainabledevelopment,” as opposed to growth-oriented,

consumerist, and unsustainable development paradigms,has been a buzzword since 1987. Although sustainable

development is still a highly contested concept,universities are now exploring new epistemologies and

methodologies and discovering/uncovering newknowledge and pro-actively advancing them towards

alternative social imaginaries of a “good life” and a moresustainable future. According to a 2009 World Bank

study, majority of world-class universities had, to a greatextent, reached that stature due to their cutting-edge

researches on sustainable development. This lectureshall clarify the concept of sustainable development,

discuss the perspectives on Education for SustainableDevelopment, and provide some examples of innovative

academic programs (research, instruction and extension/public service) in higher education.

RAYMUNDO D. ROVILLOS is Professor of History

and Dean of the College of Social Sciences,

University of the Philippines Baguio. He is also

the Head of the CSC’s Climate Change Program.

GEOINFORMATICS

IN RESEARCH AND

SOME APPLICATIONS

FROM THE FIELD

by Alicia G. Follosco

The development and use of information scienceinfrastructure to address problems in the geosciences andrelated branches of engineering is primarily the domain ofgeoinformatics. This field, which makes use of geographicinformation systems, global positioning systems andremote sensing, encompasses a collection of techniquesand tools for the acquisition, processing, management,analysis and presentation of geospatial data. Today, thesetechniques and tools are employed in many applicationsand fields. This lecture will present the results of somerecent studies that show how the developed tools andinnovations in geoinformatics can be utilized to enrichspatial analysis in social and natural science research. Itwill also argue that while incorporating GIS and remotesensing in research need not be expensive, somenecessary human and resource capacities must be inplace.

ALICIA G. FOLLOSCO is University Researcher at the

Cordillera Studies Center. In March 2011, she received her

M.Sc. in Geo-information Science and Earth Observation

from the University of Twente, the Netherlands.

Thursday, 23 June 2011, 2:30 p.m.CSS Audiovisual Room

University of the Philippines Baguio