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Isagani R. Serrano

President

PRRM trustee since 2003 and served as the acting president since August 2008. Editor of PRRM’s journal Community & Habitat. Responsible for setting up PRRM’s Conrado Benitez Institute for Sustainability. Author of Pay Now, Not Later ; Civil Society in the Asia-Pacific Region ; and many articles on development, environment, governance and civil society. A social activist and political prisoner for seven years, joined PRRM in 1986, played a key role in re-visioning this movement. Occasional poet and guitarist, weekend-farmer. Holds a MSc in Environment & Development Education from South Bank University-London.

A co-convenor of Social Watch-Philippines, Philippine Greens, Earth Day Network Philippines. Among the founders of coalitions, like the Congress for a People’s Agrarian Reform, Freedom from Debt Coalition, Green Forum Philippines, Convergence for Community-Centered Area Development, Conference Against Poverty. Participant in international campaigns for social and environmental justice, especially in connection with the UN summits of the 1990s. Associated with international organizations, like CIVICUS, Social Watch, World Rainforest Movement, People-Centered Development Forum (PCD Forum), International Centre for Non-profit Law (ICNL), Transparency International, NGO Forum on the ADB.

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Community and Habitat No. 13: Community resilience needs a change in mindset

Community resilience needs a change in mindset
THIS ISSUE OF PRRM’S COMMUNITY & HABITAT JOURNAL IS focused on the intertwined issues of climate change, energy and food.