Dr. Guilberto Borongan
Position
Director/Affiliated Faculty
Unit
Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific (AIT RRC.AP) /Urban Innovation and Sustainability
Contact Info
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
AREA OF EXPERTISE
SELECTED PUBLICATION
SELECTED RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Ph. D. in Governance and Development
National Institute of Development Administration, 2022 - M.Sc. in Urban Environmental Management
Asian Institute of Technology, 2008 - B.Sc. Chemical Engineering.
Cebu Institute of Technology University, 1996
- Sustainable Waste and Resource Management
- Environmental Governance
- Marine pollution management
- Low carbon and climate resilient
- Circular Economy and climate change
- SMART cities and Development
- Health and Environment
- Structural Equation Modelling
- Verma, R.L.; Borongan, G. Emissions of Greenhouse Gases from Municipal Solid Waste Management System in Ho Chi Minh City of VietNam. Urban Sci. 2022, 6, 78.
https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci6040078 - 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 - 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 [MDPI, Q1-
IF: 3.889/2022 - 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. - R. L. Verma, G. Borongan, M. Memon (2016). Municipal Solid Waste Management in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, Current Practices and Future
Recommendation. Journal of Procedia Environmental Sciences, 35 (2016) 127 – 139;
Elsevier. - 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 - Borongan, G. and Huno, S. K. M., (2024). Technical Guidelines for Plastics and Resin Pellets Leakage Prevention from Formal and Informal Recycling Factories in Manila City and Iloilo City, the Philippines. Asian Institute of Technology,
Thailand. ISBN(e-Book): 978-616-8230-18-3 http://www.rrcap.ait.ac.th/Publications/TGPhi.pdf - Huno, S. K. M., Nitivattananon, V., Borongan, G., Thu, N.A., Paudel, S., and Tipakornkiat (2024). Technical guideline for the plastics and resin
pellet leakage prevention from recycling facilities in Pattaya City, Thailand. Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. - S Huno, S. K. M., Borongan, G. H. and Keotiamchanh (2024). Situation assessment
report on the prevention of plastic and resin pellet leakage from formal and informal recycling facilities: Vientiane, Lao PDR. Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand - Guilberto Borongan and Huno Solomon Kofi Mensah, UNEP (2020). Regional Technical Workshop on Assessment and Monitoring Plastic Pollution in the Mekong River. United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.
- Ocean Conservancy Funded Project: Ocean Plastic Waste
Leakage 2016. - Japan ASEAN Integration Fund (JAIF) Project on “Mercury medical measuring devices in Indonesia and Philippines, 2019-2021.
- GIZ funded project: Desk study thematic input and background documents for
the Regional Workshop “Managing Packaging Waste– Preventing Marine Litter
ASEAN’, 2018. - 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. - UNEP CounterMeasure Project on Promotion of countermeasures against
marine plastic litter in Southeast Asia and India 2019-2020.
