Land reclamation, often known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill), is the process of creating new land...
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Land reclamation in the Netherlands has a long history. As early as in the 14th century, the first reclaimed land had been settled. Much of the modern...
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The reclamation of land from surrounding waters is used in Singapore to expand the city-state's limited area of usable, natural land. Land reclamation is...
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Land reclamation is done in Monaco through a policy of building land in the sea with concrete blocks because land is very scarce, as the country is comparatively...
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The reclamation of land from the surrounding waters of Metro Manila is used to expand the region's limited area of usable and natural land. There are about...
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extensive land reclamation projects. It is among the countries which have built the most artificial land; from 1949 to 1990s, the total area of land reclaimed...
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The reclamation of land from the ocean has long been used in mountainous Hong Kong to expand the limited supply of usable land with a total of around 60...
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respect to the land reclamation by Singapore in the sector of Tuas. The other parts of the order covered the issue of land reclamation around Pulau Tekong...
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Coastal Road (Mumbai) (section Land reclamation)
the coast. Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) norms in India disallow reclamation of land. Construction of the coastal freeway would require a relaxation of...
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The Ffos-y-fran Land Reclamation Scheme was a major opencast coaling operation to the north-east of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. It was the last major...
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Geography of Macau (section Land use and reclamation)
island but gradually a connecting sandbar turned into a narrow isthmus. Land reclamation in the 17th century made Macau into a peninsula, and a barrier gate...
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Tokyo Bay (section Land reclamation)
pre-modern period due to ongoing land reclamation projects. Tokyo Bay includes about 249 km2 (96 sq mi) of reclaimed land area in 2012. Aggregate household...
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Flevopolder (section Reclamation of its land)
forming the bulk of Flevoland, a province of the Netherlands. Created by land reclamation, its northeastern part was drained in 1955 and the remainder—the southwest—in...
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Shawmut Peninsula (section Land reclamation)
789 acres (3.19 km2) in area, more than doubled in size due to land reclamation efforts that were a feature of the history of Boston throughout the 19th...
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Acacia sensu lato (section Land reclamation)
Acacia s.l. (pronounced /əˈkeɪʃə/ or /əˈkeɪsiə/), known commonly as mimosa, acacia, thorntree or wattle, is a polyphyletic genus of shrubs and trees belonging...
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Reclaim (redirect from Reclamation)
It may refer to: Land reclamation, creating new land from oceans, riverbeds, or lake beds Dedesertification, reversing of the land degradation in arid...
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Mine reclamation is the process of modifying land that has been mined to ecologically functional or economically usable state. Although the process of...
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Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation of Egypt is a ministerial body in charge of agriculture and land reclamation in Egypt. The Ministry of Agriculture...
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Fiery Cross Reef (section Land reclamation)
and completed in August 1988. During 2014, the PRC government began land reclamation activities to construct a large artificial island to support an approximately...
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Geography of Denmark (section Land reclamation)
constantly erodes and adds material to the coastline, and there are human land reclamation projects. On the southwest coast of Jutland, the tide is between 1...
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Soil salinity (section Dry land salinity)
Saline and sodic soils. In: Land reclamation and water management, pp. 62–68. International Institute for Land Reclamation and Improvement (ILRI), Wageningen...
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Zuiderzee Works (section Land reclamation)
Freshwater Seawater Land reclamation Old land The Zuiderzee Works (Dutch: Zuiderzeewerken) is a system of dams and dikes, land reclamation and water drainage...
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Bord na Móna (section Land reclamation)
would be lost, and existing peat workers would be reassigned to bog reclamation projects rather than laid off. On 15 January 2021 it was announced that...
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portal Environmental impact of irrigation Land improvement Land reclamation Sustainable agriculture Economics of Land Degradation Initiative Desertification...
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reclamation in the area was intended for container terminals nos. 10 and 11.[citation needed] The idea of creating built-up land in the area via land...
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The Bureau of Reclamation, formerly the United States Reclamation Service, is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees...
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of land (over 1,000 ha) whether by purchase, leases or other means. Land management – Process of managing land Land reclamation – Creating new land from...
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speed of the land reclamation did not allow time for the soil to settle and stabilize, with a building consultant opining that the land was sinking, and...
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Geography of Japan (redirect from Japan's Reclaiming Land)
mountainsides. The majority of land reclamation projects occurred after World War II, during the Japanese economic miracle. Reclamation of 80% to 90% of all the...
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Beach. The original 25 km2 (6,178-acre) island has undergone extensive land reclamation works for military use on its southern and northwestern coasts subsuming...
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