In such a small harbour city, lacking in land supply always is a big issue for continuing the urban development. One of the common methods on increasing extra land space is reclamation. Reclamation has a long history since the first reclamation project for Praya Reclamation Scheme started in 1890. After that, Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, Hong Kong International Airport and Kai Tak Airport also were the famous reclamation project in Hong Kong. Because of the reclamation technique became more complete
cannot completely blame migration, as it affects the population figure of Singapore, but it can qualify as localized overpopulation. In terms of the social impacts, the City Council’s ideas of building downwards (underground city) is receiving a majority of negative responses– “Going underground is one option for Singapore as it frees up surface land, but that does not mean we want it for our lifestyle,” said David Tan, assistant chief executive officer of Jurong Town Corporation, Singapore’s main development
The Power of Travel The Philippines is a land of fun, sun, and sand—a tropical archipelago that is home to different people, animals, plants, scenes and sights. This is also home to CalEnergy Philippines and its employees, whose love for the environment and the community it serve helped them appreciate the country more. CalEnergy Philippines promotes local tourism to its employees as a way to sit back, relax and energize them on their way back to work. Aside from the relaxation and the opportunity
One such very serious issue is gold smuggling. It has its own repercussions that will affect the economy. CRL Narasimhan once wrote, “However high the tariff walls might be it will not be possible to reduce the demand for the metal within India. Only, instead of legal imports, the trade will shift underground with its attendant deleterious consequences for the economy and even the society at large as past experiences with gold control proved.” Some issues might seem to have huge
severe floods. Urban areas and rice fields were inundated and over 1,000 people died from destructive landslides in a year. People also had to face starvation from a severe food crisis. Even after the disastrous postwar period of floods, Japanese economy faced a serious water shortage problem emerged in rapidly urbanizing and industrializing regions. To fight off the flood and water shortage problems, the government focused on dam construction in 1960s and 70s. The projects involved river improvement
difficulty. There are certain sectors which are more difficult and which the occupational accidents occur mostly. Mining is one of these sectors, which is indicated one of the priority sectors around the world. When the surface mining ended, the underground mining is started and it brought many problems with it such as secure work environment and health issues. Occupational accidents lead to serious problems in the world. However, the most important thing of it is deaths, injuries and disabilities
informal sector/economy is the part of an economy that is not taxed and not examined by any form of government. The GDP/GNP of the country did not include all income generation activities of the informal sector unlike the formal sector, mainly due to the lack of information about the sector. It can be defined by different names such as a ancient market in labor other ideas which can be considered as informal sector can include the black market (shadow economy, underground economy). However, informal
(McNeill and McNeill 84). In order for them to have maintained that control over such a long period of time, it was necessary for them to have excelled in many parts of their society. For Parthians, agriculture (culture), military (politics), and trade (economy) were the three main pieces that had huge impact in their civilization. This essay will particularly focus on agriculture and trade, and explore how both elements played a key role in Parthian civilization, and also to shed light on how it had an
vending is viewed as a worldwide phenomenon, found in all countries of developed, transitional and developing economies. Nevertheless, it is important to recognize that street vendors are most numerous in poorer countries, and that they are usually concentrated in urban areas. According to ILO (2002) despite the importance of street vending activities in developed and developing economies, the local authorities consider street vending to be a problem for urban management. The street vendors are most
the shale to extract natural gas and oil. Natural gas companies practice this technique largely on domestic soil. The technology is not new, but it has recently been innovated and used more in the United States. The chemicals used to get to the underground resources are poisonous, so efforts are made to dispose of hazardous products correctly, but many people have claims of insufficient methods for disposing the poisonous waste. Because of conflicting ideas about fracking it has become a controversial