Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory of a University in the Philippines: the Case of UP Cebu

Aiza C. Cortes* AbstractEstimating the carbon emission of a university is a key step towards carbon neutrality in the education sector and in contributing to the national greenhouse gas emission (GHG) inventory. Following the guidelines of the Philippine Climate Change Commission (CCC), this study examined the university GHG profile using the University of the Philippines Cebu (UPC) as a case study. The main goals were to create a GHG inventory...

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Women Choosing Younger Men: Exploring Evolved Mate Preferences and Mate Choice Copying

Rowena V. Mende Abstract The present study explored the phenomenon of women choosing younger men—seemingly a violation of evolved mate preferences of males preferring young mates and females preferring resource-laden mates who are usually older. The study explored this issue through two perspectives: evolved preferences and social learn-ing. Study 1 investigated the possibility that couples where the female is older may have been conforming to...

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Fear and Loathing or Strategic Priming? Unveiling the Audience in Duterte’s Crime Rhetoric

Rogelio Alicor L. Panao and Ronald A. Pernia Abstract This paper examines speechmaking on a contentious policy by arguably one of the most controversial figures to have assumed the Philippine presidency. Drawing on quantitative textual approaches on a corpus of 845 presidential speeches delivered between June 2016 and July 2020, we provide evidence that Rodrigo Duterte’s evocative utterances against drug lords and criminals are not just...

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Order out of Court: Insights on the Lawyers’ Role in the Success and Failure of Mediation in Cebu City, Philippines

Author   Francis Michael C. AbadCollege of Social Sciences, University of the Philippines Cebu To address the problem of overwhelming cases pending before the judiciary, mediation has been sought as a means to settle disputes speedily and amicably. This article argues that much of the success or failure of a mediator to reach a settlement among litigants is owed to the role of lawyers who assist the parties in mediation conferences....

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Engaging in public sociology

The Philippine case Phoebe Zoe Maria Sanchez ABSTRACT A major question asked in this chapter is this: ‘how do Filipino sociologists engage in public sociology in the Philippines?’ Hence, the chapter deals with lived experiences in public sociology. First, the study accounts on the context of Philippine society as situated in a perpetual state of authoritarianism via narratives of human rights violations in Cebu, Central Visayas, the...

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