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Both floods and droughts are predicted to increase. Climate change is having serious impacts in the Philippines such as increased frequency and severity of natural disasters, sea level rise, extreme rainfall, resource shortages, and environmental degradation. [14]
In an economic context, land development is also sometimes advertised as land improvement or land amelioration.It refers to investment making land more usable by humans. For accounting purposes it refers to any variety of projects that increase the value of the process.
The 1960s and 1970s saw a boom in the logging industry, [8] with the industry reaching its peak during the era of 10th president Ferdinand Marcos. [9]Under Marcos, logging took on an increasingly central role in the Philippine economy. [10]
The Philippines suffers from widespread corruption, [1] which developed during the Spanish colonial period. [2] [3] According to GAN Integrity's Philippines Corruption Report updated May 2020, the Philippines suffers from many incidents of corruption and crime in many aspects of civic life and in various sectors.
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) claims that eight groups will not participate: Pinagkaisang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Operators Nationwide (Piston), Federation of Jeepney Operators and Drivers Association of the Philippines (Fejodap), UV Express group, Association of Concerned Transport Organizations (Acto), Pasang Masda ...
Siltation of a waterway. Siltation is water pollution caused by particulate terrestrial clastic material, with a particle size dominated by silt or clay.It refers both to the increased concentration of suspended sediments and to the increased accumulation (temporary or permanent) of fine sediments on bottoms where they are undesirable.
Posible + -ng (from Sp. posible), which can be translated to English as "possibly", is a Tagalog epistemic modal marking low degree of probability. Examples of Spanish-derived Tagalog epistemic modals marking excessive degree of intensity include masyado + -ng (from Sp. demasiado ) and sobra + -ng (from Sp. sobra ) while medyo (from Sp. medio ...
The Liga ng mga Barangay began with the election in July 1992, of its first National President, Alex David from Caloocan. The Liga ng mga Barangay is the largest of local government associations whose members come from the grassroots level. It represents a membership of almost 42,000 barangays.