About this Event
Coastal Futures is a growing network of planners, engineers, designers, and policymakers invested in the healthy futures of our coasts. As institutions in the front-run of innovation in coastal management, TU Delft and IHE partner with the NGO Both ENDS to promote debates on what technical promises mean in practice. Our aim is to explore what policies and practices need to change and what roles should planners, engineers and designers have in this process.
This time we have the opportunity to host environment defenders from the Philipines to learn about the impacts of dredging and land reclamation in Manila Bay. The delegation consists of representatives from PAMALAKAYA, the Philippines national federation of small scale fisher-folk organizations and HUYUMA, the Ecumenical Church-People Solidarity Group in Manila Bay. The aim of their visit to us is to raise awarness to their cause and strengthen solidarity networks in the Netherlands.
In 2022, the Dutch company Boskalis was awarded insurance for the creation of a massive 1,700-hectare land reclamation for the development of a new international airport, in the coastal zone Bulacan province in Manila Bay. Since then, the project has been associated with involuntary displacement of hundreds of families, the loss of livelihoods for tens of thousand fisherfolk, and the destruction of key biodiversity sites spanning mangroves, mudflats, sandy beaches, coral reefs, and seagrass. The Manila Bay airport project has been fiercely opposed by communities and environmental and human rights groups, with significant personal risk. Learn more about the impacts of this and other projects led by Dutch dredgers here: Dredging_destruction.pdf (bothends.org)
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
TU Delft Faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment (Hall Q), 134 Julianalaan, Delft, Netherlands
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