Climate adaptation capacity study of Eastern Mindanao Philippines

Due to the Philippines location along the typhoon belt, an average of 20 typhoons enters the country and around nine make landfall.

Landslides and flash flood due to heavy rains events are closely linked to typhoons. Human factors also increase the Philippines vulnerabilities and disaster risks.

Within the last 50 years, the country has lost almost 80% of its mangroves in its coastal areas. In addition, large scale deforestation contributes to a decline of its forest cover at an average speed of 150 thousand hectares per year which is a major cause of landslides and flash floods.

When Typhoon Bopha landed in Eastern Mindanao, Philippines, in December 2012, flash floods and landslides have buried communities in Compostella Valley with huge rocks and timbers and businesses and farms were also destroyed. Compostella Valley, a community in Eastern Mindanao, Philippines.

The study examinef the communities’ adaptive capacity to climate disasters such as flash floods and landslides.

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