SANTOS, ODYSON D.
CCDRM TTh 3:00-4:30
BSCE 4-1 JANUARY 19, 2023
S&T-based Information and Technologies for CCA-DRM
In your respective Barangays (where you reside), list down 10 science-based information or
technologies you can use to address each of the following:
1. Climate Change Mitigation
• Renewables. with the application of geospatial technologies, suitable sites for
generation of the renewables can be identified, facilities management, economic
analysis and forecasting can be done by empowering a variety of geospatial data
and maps.
• Circular Economy. Technologies such as IoT, AI, Blockchain and Big Data along
with geospatial technologies play a significant role in enabling circular economy,
which helps in connecting suppliers and partners, monitoring product lifecycle, and
calculating the product’s environmental impact.
• Batteries and energy storage. Coal gasification, combined with carbon capture,
use and storage is expected to be the basis for affordable clean fuels and feedstock
substitution for producing clean steel, hydrogen, ammonia, methanol, and other
lower-carbon chemicals.
• Building technologies (BIM). BIM streamlines the AEC sector towards more
efficiency, productivity, cost savings, ROI and faster project timelines.
• Industrial-process innovation. Climate technologies are assuming center stage
due to the rising demand from nations to meet net-zero emission targets.
• Hydrogen. Aerospace firm Airbus believes hydrogen holds more promise for
decarbonizing planes than batteries because of the energy it can store by weight.
By modifying their existing internal combustion engines, they say they could use
hydrogen to fuel their planes.
• Sustainable fuels. Technologies are being developed to find more sustainable
solutions to our existing problems since there is limited access of natural resources
and in the process of extracting them, the environment is getting hammered badly,
ultimately everyone around the globe is suffering.
• Nature-based solutions. Proper utilization of satellite imagery to identify the
areas, indigenous people, ocean health that needs constant monitoring to forecast
or report the incidents and take timely action.
• Carbon removal, capture and storage. According to the International Energy
Agency (IEA) to reach net-zero over 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide will need to
be captured per year by 2070.
• Agriculture and food. To address the systematic challenges, accelerate
productivity and mitigate the risks precision farming, autonomous farming and
agriculture technologies play a significant role in tackling the food security issues.
2. Climate Change Adaptation
• Innovations around infectious diseases. Hotter global temperatures will lead to
the spread of more infectious diseases such as malaria, dengue, tick-borne
encephalitis, and Lyme disease, according to the United Nations Framework
Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC). Most of this will happen in tropical
regions or regions close to tropical geographies. Higher temperatures will also lead
to increases of food-born diseases like Salmonella in more developed regions.
Innovations in drug delivering, drugs themselves, and prevention will be needed.
• Flood safeguards. Property owners and farmers in vulnerable regions will
increasingly look to technologies that can help them adapt to potential floods. Those
could include building homes on stilts, to crafting barriers around rivers in
populated regions, and using seeds and crops that are more resistant to floods.
• Weather forecasting technologies. Extreme weather conditions, from floods to
hurricanes, will become more common in certain regions because of the warming
of the Earth. Weather forecasting has been an area of little innovation and will
depend heavily on information technology tools (satellites, software, computing,
sensors) to inject some much-needed innovation into the sector.
• Insurance tools. To help spread the risk of extreme weather events and higher
temperatures, farmers and governments in developing countries could invest in
insurance programs that would pay out when weather related disasters occur.
Already, insurance companies in some areas are seeing more events around
flooding due to climate change. In particular, look to insurance tools that came out
of the Internet industry - like WeatherBill - to find solutions.
• More resilient crops. High temperatures can cut annual crop productivity
dramatically, can lead to droughts, more rainfall, and can lead to longer or shorter
crop seasons. Farmers that grow crops on risk-prone lands will be looking for seeds
that can withstand higher temperatures, alternating water supplies, and fluctuating
crop cycle times. Genetically modified crops could play a key role in this
movement.
• Supercomputing. Weather forecasting and climate change data will benefit
immensely from more powerful and faster supercomputers that can crunch data and
make important predictions in real time.
• Water Purification. Harsher and more wide-spread droughts will lead to a strain
on communities and farmers that need fresh water. At the same time, rising sea
levels will affect coastal regions, potentially leading to an increase of salt in ground
water. So-called desalination technology has seen an under-investment by the
venture capitalist community, as VCs are unfamiliar with the markets for water
technology.
• Water Recycling. Beyond desalination, other water technologies include using
gray water and harvesting rainwater, for crops and everyday human uses. The key
to this type of technology is that it has to be inexpensive.
• Efficient Irrigation Systems. While it's not cutting-edge technology, farmers in
affected regions will be quick to embrace irrigation systems that are much more
efficient than they currently use. Packaging a product attractive to this segment
could be popular.
• Sensors. With all the potential problems and fluctuations in the environment due
to global warming, there will be a growth in the need for accurate environmental
data, particularly from sensors. Whether these are located in the ocean, in the
atmosphere, in soil, in flood zones or in arid drought-stricken lands, organisations,
governments and companies will want to track the changes in order to develop
solutions to deal with the problem.
3. Proactive disaster risk management (disaster prevention and mitigation)
• Aerial Robotics: It assesses damage in real-time, increases situational awareness
through high-resolution mapping and delivers items faster, cheaper and more
efficiently.
• Social Media Solutions: Resulting in faster, more effective answers that ultimately
help the beneficiaries. For example, World Food Program (WFP) Mobile
Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (mVAM) uses mobile technology to address
the barriers of data collection.
• Predictive Policies. This can be developed from previous disaster management;
officials and responders can collect insights that help forecast future incidents and
identification of vulnerable social sections. Sensors are used specifically for data
collection and storage which are later analysed and extracted useful data from it.
Companies like Google are predicting flood patterns in India and aiming to improve
reaction accuracy and precision
• Efficient Allocation of Resources. Big data generated from geo-informatics and
remote sensing platforms helps identify the gaps and make recommendations on
where to allocate resources to mitigate the risk. This includes helping to see
recovery, focusing on early warning dissemination systems and assessing resilience
• Economic mitigation plans. Big data provides an in-depth understanding of how
an economy is interconnected and how even the destruction of a crop like rice can
trigger a disaster. A series of effects on many industries and services such as
transportation, rice trade, packaging and retail
• Social media. Collects data and allows survivors to mark themselves safely in times
of crisis, which is helpful for both emergency response teams and distressed friends
and family
• The American Red Cross. puts life-saving information at the user’s fingertips
through free mobile apps. The app gives people instant access to over 35 custom
weather alerts
• A pilot projects. It was carried out by Google in collaboration with the Central
Water Commission to assess the flood situation in Patna
• The Odisha State Disaster Mitigation Authority (OSDMA). Developed a web
and smartphone-based platform called “SATARK” in collaboration with the
regionally integrated multi-Hazard, early warning dissemination system. The
application is designed to provide real-time clocks, alerts and warning information
for various hazards such as heatwave, lightning, agricultural hazards (drought) and
flood monitoring. This is a big role of the national disaster management system
• Robotics. Specialized technologies that can be used in a disaster management
scenario. Robots are now incredibly advanced and prepared to better help and
complement human actors or rescue animals thanks to advancements in computing
technology. These can be incredibly useful for NDRF units, particularly in difficult
terrain and life-threatening operations.
