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HANDA PILIPINAS: Innovations in Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) Exposition is an annual event conducted by the Department of Science and

We seldom think of the city as the cause of climate change. We rarely examine how the processes of urbanisation and climate-related vulnerabilities are deeply interconnected.

The question of where to draw the line between what is and what is not a city is getting harder to answer. As the world moves towards total urbanisation, settlements are spreading out by merging into one another to create what urban experts term “megalopolises”.

But we're going into a recession, quite clearly — that makes it impossible for people to get more pay, doesn't it? we've got some really powerful global forces acting against economic growth. you see workers beginning to be laid off and then the balance, perhaps, will shift again. what you might see is the acceleration of things like mass automation, for example. and some people think that's going to be terrible cos you have millions of unemployed people with nothing to do. that could be civil unrest in some parts of the world. if you think of china, if you've got mega—cities, millions of ...

But we're going into a recession, quite clearly — that makes it impossible for people to get more pay, doesn't it? we've got some really powerful global forces acting against economic growth. you see workers beginning to be laid off and then the balance, perhaps, will shift again. what you might see is the acceleration of things like mass automation, for example. and some people think that's going to be terrible cos you have millions of unemployed people with nothing to do. that could be civil unrest in some parts of the world. if you think of china, if you've got mega—cities, millions of ...