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Dr. Guilberto Borongan

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Urban Innovation and Sustainability, Department of Development and Sustainability
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Ph.D. (Governance and Development) National Institute of Development Administration, Thailand, 2022

M.Sc. (Urban Environmental Management) Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, 2008

B.Sc. Chem. Engg., Cebu Institute of Technology University, Philippines, 1996

  • Sustainable Waste and Resource Management
  • Environmental Governance
  • Marine pollution
  • Circular Economy and climate change
  • SMART cities and Development
  • Health and Environment
  • Structural Equation Modelling
  1. Borongan, G., NaRanong (2022). Factors in enhancing environmental governance for marine plastic litter abatement in Manila, the Philippines: a combined structural equation modeling and DPSIR framework. Marine Pollution Bulletin https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113920
  2. Borongan, G., NaRanong (2022). Practical Challenges and Opportunities for Marine Plastic Litter Reduction in Manila: A Structural Equation Modeling. Sustainability. 2022; 14(10):6128. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14106128
  3. Huno S. K. M., Borongan, G. and Tsukamoto, N.(2019). An Evaluation of Downstream Policies to Reduce Marine Plastic Litter in Thailand. Water Perspective in Emerging Countries, Focus Issue: Microplastics in the Water Environment. Cuvillier Verlag, Gottingen, Germany. eISBN 978-3-7369-6089-3.
  4. R. L. Verma, G. Borongan, M. Memon (2016). Municipal Solid Waste Management in Ho ChiMinh City, Viet Nam, Current Practices and Future Recommendation. Journal of Procedia Environmental Sciences, 35 (2016) 127 – 139;Elsevier.
  5. Nitivattananon, V. and Borongan, G. (2007). Construction and Demolition Waste Management: Current Practices in Asia. Proceedings: International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management. Chennai, India
  1. Ocean Conservancy Funded Project: Ocean Plastic Waste Leakage 2016.
  2. Japan ASEAN Integration Fund (JAIF) Project on “Mercury medical measuring devices in Indonesia and Philippines, 2019-2021.
  3. GIZ funded project: Desk study thematic input and background documents for the Regional Workshop “Managing Packaging Waste– Preventing Marine Litter ASEAN’, 2018.
  4. Regional expert for the project: Strengthening Capacity for Marine Debris Reduction in ASEAN region through formulation of National Action Plans for ASEAN Member States and Integrated Land-to-Sea Policy Approach (Phase1) 2018-2019.
  5. UNEP CounterMeasure Project on Promotion of countermeasures against marine plastic litter in Southeast Asia and India 2019-2020.