标题：The Social, Environmental and Economic Effects of a Reclamation Project: From the Lived Experience of the Residents of an Affected Local Coastal Village in the Philippines
期刊名称：Asia Pacific Journal of Multidisciplinary Research
印刷版ISSN：2350-7756
电子版ISSN：2350-8442
出版年度：2019
卷号：7
期号：2-PART3
页码：98-106
出版社：Lyceum of the Philippines University - Batangas
摘要：One of the offshoots of urbanization is the construction of reclamation sites. In the province of
Leyte, the conversion of the municipality of Baybay into a city paves the way for this development project. With
this, people living in the city poblacion’s coastal barangays were affected by the new development. Using the
qualitative research method of hermeneutic phenomenology, this study aims to investigate the reclamation
project’s effects on the lives of the affected residents specifically on the social, environmental and economic
aspects. This study then concludes that negative effects have been felt on the social aspect of the residents’
lives as discernible in the violation of their basic human rights to information. This has caused fears and
apprehensions among the affected in relation to their housing needs, availability of work and the continuance
of their social inter-connectedness. Furthermore, this study concludes that the reclamation project has brought
environmental degradation caused by the project’s construction and has prevented the residents to enjoy the
aesthetic benefits and other ecosystem services that they used to have before the start of the project. Lastly,
this study concludes that the reclamation project has negatively affected the economic aspect ofthe residents’
lives. With the degradation and change of landscape in the residents’ community, the residents’ have been
limited and prevented in their fishing activities which have been their main source of income. This also
includes the fishermen’s dwindling catch and the obliteration of the residents’ activity of gathering shells and
crabs during low tides.
