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Pedro Walpole

Pedro Walpole

Pedro Walpole, S.J., is the Director of Research at the Institute of Environmental Science for Social Change in the Philippines and the Coordinator of Reconciliation with Creation for the Jesuit Conference Asia Pacific. He holds a doctorate in land use change from King’s College in London. He is a practitioner in sustainable environment and community land-management in Southeast Asia.

Monday, 3 December 2012

The rains started during the afternoon planning meeting for Kaamulan, the annual cultural gathering. ESSC staff warned that storm signal number 1 was raised, so

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Wednesday, 5 December 2012

Early in the morning, people began returning to their houses. People from the village contributed their share to the breakfast, although we ate late due

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Sunday, 9 December 2012

Communications finally came back but were shaky as always. The extent of the damage was becoming clear: flattened crops, maize, rice, bananas, and vegetable crops,

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