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Landfill development in the urban fringe of Metro Manila

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In low-lying areas of urban and suburban regions in Asia, the use of landfill has allowed urban land use to encroach onto watery landforms, such as back marshes, which were formerly used as rice fields. To improve understanding of the associations between land-use patterns and landfill development, we carried out a case study in the urban fringe of Metro Manila in the Philippines. We examined landfill volume derived from land-use change using GIS, and field surveyed qualitative aspects of the landfill used. We calculated the rate of application of landfill in low-lying housing development areas to be 5.0 × 103 m3 km−2 year−1, most of which consisted of offsite disposal of construction waste or crushed rock produced by urban development and renewal on the adjoining uplands. The flow of fill material from offsite sources to onsite landfill development areas was on the basis of individual agreements between suppliers and developers.

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (18780017 and 03J11839) from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. We express our deep appreciation for help with our field survey from Ms. Maria Florencia A. Navera, research associate, University of the Philippines Los Baños. We especially appreciate the kind help of Dr. Edwin G. Domingo, Assistant Director at the Mines and Geosciences Bureau in the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and staff of Metro Manila Development Authority, and the Taguig and Pateros Municipal Offices. We also thank Mr. Ryuichiro Seki and other experts from the Japan International Cooperation Agency for helping us with our survey. We especially thank Mr. Elmer I. Nocheseda and other local residents, landowners, local contractors, developers, wreckers, and managers and workers in sand and gravel pits for their kind cooperation during our field survey.

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  1. Transdisciplinary Initiative for Global Sustainability (TIGS), Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S), The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8654, Japan

    Yuji Hara

  2. Laboratory of Landscape Ecology and Planning, Department of Ecosystem Studies, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan

    Kazuhiko Takeuchi

  3. College of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of the Philippines Los Baños, College, Laguna, 4031, Philippines

    Armando M. Palijon

  4. Department of Social Systems and Management, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki, 305-8573, Japan

    Akinobu Murakami

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Hara, Y., Takeuchi, K., Palijon, A.M. et al. Landfill development in the urban fringe of Metro Manila. GeoJournal 71, 127–141 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-008-9150-z

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