“When urban landscapes are built, people will be drawn because of the economic promises these places make. But in the case of the reclaimed lands in Manila Bay, people are going to be put directly in harm’s wa
Land reclamationInternational lawIslandsIn the statement China's reclamation activity in the South China Sea is described as being inconsistent with the 2002 Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea, under which China and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) ...
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 rec...
In line with changing development paradigms, political interests, and material necessities created by the first projects, the focus of these interventions started to shift from agricultural reclamation to watershed and lagoon management in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Lagoon sedimentation, which was...
In some countries there have been redistributive land reform moves, to spread ownership of large blocks of land across a greater number of poorer people. Such has occurred in Zimbabwe, Pakistan and Brazil, and there is a strong demand for it from the poor in the Philippines (see Section 6.7...
the cost of the many. That being said,Rousseau, in principle, was not an advocate of collective property. He did, however, notice that those who have the ownership over the finite amounts of soil and water would be able to enforce power over those who, without owning the actual resources...
Additionally, increases in coastal land reclamation in response to coastward population migration can contribute to subsidence. Such anthropogenic subsidence can be rapid and cause metres of land subsidence over decades3. Although natural subsidence processes tend to be much slower, there are notable ...
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high value crops, irrigation systems, oil, gas and transportation), and; (4) recovery costs, including clearing of tephra and LH deposits, reclamation of land and reconstruction. In contrast, studies of LH impacts in Indonesia and the Philippines have shown that positive impacts have also ...
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 ...