The existing resettlement infrastructure for informal settlements in Manila, Philippines provide an opportunity to facilitate future climate change adaptation in the city.
Both at a global and at a local level, the area of fertile soils is limited and is increasingly under pressure by competing land uses for settlement, infrastructure, raw materials extraction, agriculture, and forestry.
The consolidation will create a single discovery process, determine which "test cases" will be tried first and provide infrastructure for the division of any settlement.
Worldwide, between 35 and 50% of all pristine mangrove forests have been lost to human activity such as irrigation and dams, overharvesting, clearing for agricultural land, infrastructure and settlement (Oswell 2015).
Around 2.5m trees, including olive groves, had been uprooted since 1967 for settlements, infrastructure and the separation barrier.
Risk vulnerability is linked to inadequate human, economic, and infrastructure development, coupled with high population growth, increasing urbanization, and dangerous locations for settlement (UNECA 2011).
Using small geographic units is superior to circular methods as this approach allows for more flexible markets that align to real infrastructure and settlement patterns.
There were concrete proposals: a national investment bank, investment in infrastructure, a new settlement for business.
But settlement for settlement's sake would be pointless".
