RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONS AND PROJECTS
For more individual research activities and publications of the faculty members, please check their individiual academic profiles through this link. If you want to know more about the research projects of the faculty members or to connect you with the project lead or proponent, please contact the UP Department of Geography via email (geography.upd@up.edu.ph / geog@kssp.upd.edu.ph).
Recent publications
2021 to present
> Garcia, E., Martinez, M. S., & Palis, J. (2025). Finding your way in the world: Geographic methodologies in the social sciences. In L. M. Portus (Ed.), Doing social science research (Vol. 2): Deep-diving into the social science research methods (Chapter 4). Philippine Social Science Council.
> De Guzman, M. T., Martinez, M. S., Garcia, E., Palis, J., Anacta, V. J., Cadag, J. R., Amorsolo, D. S., Ocampo, L. A., & Gutierrez, D. (2024). Integrating service-learning in geography in Philippine higher education. Pennsylvania Geographer, 62(2).
> Palis, J. (2022). What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?: Diasporic Melancholia and Geographies of Case in ‘Islands’. Pelikula Journal: A Journal of Philippine Cinema and Moving Image, 7. https://www.pelikulajournal.com/volumes.
> Ocampo, L. A., & Schmitz, S. (2022). Accumulation by dispossession and hazardscape production in post-corporate gold mining in Itogon, Philippines. Geographical Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12565.
> Anacta, V. J. (2022). Illustrating shared features of students’ cognitive image of a university campus. Journal of Urban Design. https://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2022.2112513.
> Cadag, J. R. (2022). Decolonising disasters. Disasters, 46(4), 1121–1126. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12550.
>Palis, J. (2022). The Vernacularisation of Geographical Stories. Banwaan: The Philippine Journal of Folklore, 2(1). https://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/Banwaan/article/view/8912/7818.
> Amorsolo, D. S. N. (2022). Folklife as Geonarrative: the fluvial lifeworld confluences of the lower Abra River-Delta and the town of Santa. Pennsylvania Geographer, 60. https://thepgs.org/Spring-2022.
Research project
Funded projects by faculty members and their collaborators from 2016 to present
> Relational Geographies (2023-ongoing)
> Socio-spatial dynamics of hydroelectric microdam projects in Kalinga (2024-ongoing)
> Authoritarian populism and livelihood change in the Philippines (2025-ongoing)
> Sakuna: retrieving non-Western understandings of disasters in the Philippines (2025-ongoing)
> Improving Urban Fire Resilience in Metro Manila (2024-ongoing)
> Localizing Climate and Disaster Risk Assessment in the Philippines (2025-ongoing)
> Community-based DRRM in Barangay Tatalon, Quezon City (2024-ongoing)
> Geographies of Music (2023-2024)
> Pagmamapa sa Kapuluan (2023-ongoing)
> Embodied Ecologies (2022-ongoing)
> Storying Geographies (2022-ongoing)
> High density urbanisms: In place and on the move (2022)
> Counter-mapping as Urban Resistance (2022)
> Lahat Dapat Project Phase 2 (2021-2022)
> Mapping Legal Education in the Philippines (2020-2022)
> Mapping Workshop for Geonarratives (2019-2022)
> Smart Cities and the Citizen (2021-ongoing)
> Visualising the Casualties of the Drug War (2021)
> Geonarratives of Human Rights Defenders in Negros Island, Philippines (2020-2021)
> Philipine Disaster Information (PhilDIS) (2019-2021)
> A Study on the Implications of Federalism on the National Capital Region and Considerations for Forming the Federal Administrative Region (2019-2020)
> Spatial analysis and assessment of the proposed division of Palawan (2019-2020)
> Investigating differences in spatial learning on human wayfinding (2020)
> Adapting to climate change in coastal livelihoods in Ghana, Tanzania, Thailand and the Philippines (2017-2021)
> Mapping of Philippine Handwoven Textile Communities (2018-2020)
> Diliman Storymaps (2019)
> Mapping Workshop for Geonarratives (2019)
> The role of young children in implementing a DRR activity in a disaster prone
community: A case study of San Mateo Rizal (2018-2019)
> Counter-mapping for peri-urban social justice: Accounting for spatial
narratives of community resistance and dispossession in urban transition (2018-2019)
> Political Ecologies of Interstitial Food Production Spaces in Metro Manila (2016-2019)