Integrated Natural Resources
and Environment Management

UPLB INREM

Dr. Rex Victor O. Cruz
REX VICTOR O. CRUZ, PhD
  • Professor Emeritus
  • College of Forestry and Natural Resources
  • rocruz@up.edu.ph
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Dr. Rex Victor O. Cruz is a renowned expert in watershed management and climate change adaptation. His expertise and research interests include ecosystem and landscape planning and management, upland development, and integrated natural resources management. He was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations that won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former US Vice President Al Gore. He served as a principal lead author and convening lead author of the Assessment of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Second, Third and Fourth Assessment Reports.

Projects

Ongoing
ITMoB
The study aims to assess the impacts of traditional and modern bioproduction systems on ecosystem services as influenced by climate change and land use change at a watershed level.
Ongoing
APN-Albay
This project will provide maps of vulnerabilities and risks of the province based on different scenarios. Impacts of forest fragmentation in relation to multi-hazard vulnerability including the complications of Covid-19 will be investigated.