Jean-Christophe Gaillard, Ph.D. was born in 1975 at Saint-Vallier in France. He graduated from the University of Savoie (France) in 2001. His dissertation is entitled "Territorial and socio-economic implications of the crises linked to the eruption and lahars of Mt. Pinatubo, 1991-2001". He taught geography for a year at the University of Savoie before moving to the Philippines where he became a Guest Lecturer at Holy Angel University in Angeles City and eventually acted as the research coordinator of the Don Juan Nepomuceno Center for Kapampangan Studies. Since 2002, he has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Geography of the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of the Philippines - Diliman. In 2003, he was elected as President of the Philippine Geographical Society. He is also an Honorary Member of the Katipunan Arkeologist ng Pilipinas, Inc. (Society of Philippine Archaeologists) and an Associate Member of EDYTEM, Research Laboratory on "Environments, Dynamics, Territories of Mountain" of the University of Savoie (France). His primary research interest is natural disaster management. His secondary research interests include the prehistory of the Philippines and the Kapampangan studies.

P U B L I C A T I O N S

Gaillard (J-C.), D'Ercole (R.), Leone (F.), 1998, Cartographie de la vulnérabilité des populations face aux phénomènes volcaniques et aux lahars du Pinatubo (Philippines): cas du bassin de la rivière Pasig-Potrero (Province de Pampanga), PANGEA, 29-30, juin-décembre 1998, pp. 5-19.

Leone (F.), Gaillard (J-C.), 1999, Back Analysis of the Institutional and Social Responses to the Eruption and the Lahars of Mount Pinatubo Volcano from 1991 to 1998 (Central Luzon, Philippines), GeoJournal, 49 (2), pp. 223-238.

Gaillard (J-C.), Leone (F.), 2000, Implications territoriales de l'éruption du Mt Pinatubo pour la minorité ethnique aeta: cas des bassins-versants des rivières Pasig et Sacobia (Provinces de Pampanga et Tarlac - Philippines), Cahiers Savoisiens de Géographie, 1/2000, pp. 53-68.

Gaillard (J-C.), D'Ercole (R.), Leone (F.), 2001, Cartography of Population Vulnerability to Volcanic Hazards and Lahars of Mt Pinatubo (Philippines): Case of Pasig-Potrero River Basin (Province of Pampanga), Géomorphologie: relief, processus, environnement, 3/2001, pp. 209-222.

Dizon (L.L.), Gaillard (J-C.), 2001, Une étude du concept d'île linguistique: le cas de la langue Kapampangan (Central Luzon, Philippines), Cahiers Savoisiens de Géographie, 4/2001, pp. 81-92.

Gaillard (J-C.), 2002, Implications territoriales et ethno-culturelles d'une crise volcanique: le cas de l'éruption du Mont Pinatubo aux Philippines, Annales de Géographie, 627-628, pp. 574-591.

Gaillard (J-C.), 2003, Territorial and ethno-cultural implications of a volcanic crisis: The case of the Mount Pinatubo eruption (Philippines). Alaya: Kapampangan Research Journal, 1/2003, pp. 73-88.

Gaillard (J-C.), Mallari (J.P.), In press, The peopling of the Philippines: A cartographic synthesis. Hukay: Bulletin of the University of the Philippines Archaeological Studies Program, 6.

Gaillard (J-C.), Delfin Jr. (F.G.), Dizon (E.Z.), Paz (V.J), Ramos (E.G.), Remotigue (C.T.), Rodolfo (K.S.), Siringan (F.), Soria (J.L.A.), Umbal (J.V.), To be published, Socio-economic impact of the c. 500 yr BP eruption of Mt. Pinatubo (Philippines): Hypotheses from the archaeological and geographical records. Proceedings of the Society of Philippine Archaeologists, 2/2004.

Gaillard (J-C.), To be published, Territorial implications of the Mount Pinatubo disaster for some Kapampangan communities: The case of Bacolor (Pampanga), Proceeding of the First International Conference on Kapampangan Studies, Holy Angel University, Angeles City (Philippines), September 3-5, 2001.

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