Established 1977 Founded 1977 | Phone +63 49 536 2251 | |
Dean Dr. Decibel V. Faustino-Eslava Location Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines Address University of the Philippines Los Banos, Lopez Avenue, Los Baños, 4030 Laguna, Philippines | ||
The School of Environmental Science and Management (SESAM) is one of the eleven degree-granting units of the University of the Philippines at Los Baños (UPLB). It was created in 1977 in response to calls for a multidisciplinary effort to address environmental degradation amid economic development. Then known as the Program on Environmental Science and Management, it was lodged under the Office of the Chancellor with initial funding support from the Ford Foundation.
It began offering the Master of Environmental Studies program in 1984 and pioneered development and testing methodologies and approaches for sustainable management of upland resources, which include the following: Agroecosystem Analysis, Rapid Rural Systems Appraisal (RRSA), Assisted Natural Regeneration (ANR), Strategic Environmental Planning and Modelling and Environmental Impact Assessment.