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    Land reclamation, usually known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill), is the process of creating new...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • salination, or species endangerment, among many more. Land restoration is not the same as land reclamation, where existing ecosystems are altered or destroyed...
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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • The Praya Reclamation Scheme (Chinese: 海旁填海計劃) was a large scale land reclamation project carried out by the Hong Kong Land company in 19th Century Hong...
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    square, started in 1886.: 5  This land reclamation used dredging soil from the Sörnäinen harbour. To stop reclaimed land from flowing into the sea, a dam...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    other means. Land management – Process of managing land Land reclamation – Creating new land from oceans, seas, riverbeds or lakes Land recycling – Reuse...
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    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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    Artificial island (category Land reclamation)
    below). In modern times, artificial islands are usually formed by land reclamation, but some are formed by flooding of valleys resulting in the tops of...
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    08 km2 (0.031 sq mi) or 8 ha (20 acres), with land reclaimed from the Mediterranean Sea. Land reclamation projects include extending the district of Fontvieille...
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