Less than a quarter of the reports give quantified information on the area of land rehabilitated.

The world is likely to lose one third of its arable land by the end of the century.

The reclaimed land has increased the total flat land of Gibraltar by 10 per cent.

Seismic hazards may be significantly greater on reclaimed wetlands and on landfills than in other areas of an urban centre.

(o) Monitor and manage reclaimed areas until they are self sustaining or until an end point satisfactory to the owner or the government instrumentality responsible for the land has been reached.

Projects and programmes in the area of rehabilitation of degraded land do not always provide for mechanisms for evaluating the impact of their activities and determining the area of the rehabilitated land.

The projects and programmes conducted in the area of the rehabilitation of degraded land do not always include appropriate mechanisms for evaluating the impact of the activities involved or for determining the area of land rehabilitated, for which figures are given in less than a quarter of the reports.

As the centuries went by, they eventually constructed an extensive dike system that covered the coastline and the polders, thus protecting the land from further incursions by the sea.

The scheme for the reconstruction of central Beirut covers an area of 1.6 million square metres, including 450,000 square metres of reclaimed land on the sea front it is to be completed over a 25 year period.

The polder model is a term with uncertain origin that was first used to describe the acclaimed Dutch version of consensus based economic and social policy making, specifically in the 1980s and 1990s.

The Committee wished to know what measures had been taken to ensure that women obtained their equal share of land in view of reports that almost all newly reclaimed land was going to male owners.

52. The target for 1993 95, is to provide a total of about 6,000 new or rehabilitated water sources (2,000 per year) to support the resettlement process, including the placement of hand pumps on existing wells that lack them.

It consists of the city centre's historic harbor area, including Delfshaven the Maashaven Rijnhaven Feijenoord complex the harbours around Nieuw Mathenesse Waalhaven Vondelingenplaat Eemhaven Botlek Europoort, situated along the Calandkanaal, Nieuwe Waterweg and Scheur (the latter two being continuations of the Nieuwe Maas) and the reclaimed Maasvlakte area, which projects into the North Sea.