Other countries in Asia are also embarking on mega-reclamation works. The Philippines is reclaiming 1,010 acres from the sea for its New Manila Bay and Sri Lanka is building a new financial district called Colombo International Financial City on reclaimed land. Source:TheStar.com.my Land re...
In addition, the Philippines has built so-called "tourist facilities" on some of the seized Chinese islands, such as Zhongye Dao, Mahuan Dao and Feixin Dao. VIETNAM EXPANDS LAND RECLAMATION FROM SEA Media reports said Vietnam started to reclaim land from the sea on its illegally seized islan...
Coastal development on the island is still on-going with plans for the construction of five artificial islands and another two coastal reclamation projects are either underway or scheduled for the near future. If the plans for future land reclamations are fully realized, 32.3 km2 of the 321.8 ...
Middle-class risk perception of disasters and land reclamation in Metro Manila, Philippinesdoi:10.1007/s44218-023-00028-4Valenzuela, Ven Paolo BrunoEsteban, MiguelOnuki, MotoharuAnthropocene Coasts
Federal Land boasts several landmark condominium projects that showcase Philippines major cities skyline. From the picturesque Manila Bay to the cosmopolitan vibe of Makati, the new business district of Fort Bonifacio, the valleys of Marikina City, sprawling Quezon City, even in Binondo historic dist...
However, the precipitation in Guizhou Province experienced a decreasing trend since 2000(Wang et al., 2022a, Wei et al., 2021). Therefore, we supposed that the expansion of the water area in Guizhou Province should be ascribed to the construction of water conservancy projects. Since the West...
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Torrens got on a boat and promoted his registry system directly to Western Canada, after which it quickly spread across the British Empire, to Hawaii, the Philippines, the Dominican Republic, Ireland, Israel, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, and a number of US states.36It is now ...
In contrast, studies of LH impacts in Indonesia and the Philippines have shown that positive impacts have also resulted from land burial, such as extraction activities and tourism after an eruption (De Belizal et al., 2013), and has sometimes enhanced agricultural productivity in the long term....
In both Thailand and the Philippines as well as in parts of British Malaya, the Torrens system of land titling from Australia was introduced. This system had been developed in Australia to give European farms a secure title to land so that they could then invest in improvements and capital ...