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Philippines: Rebuilding after Yolanda - Land issues and Tacloban’s no-build zones

Source(s): GMA Network Inc.
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Are no-build zones the answer? asks GMA. Partly. The Philippine Water Code does not allow structures to be built 40 meters from the shoreline. 'The question is how much you want to reduce the risk' says GIZ chief advisor on disaster risk management.

'Hindi madaling iwanan kung saan ka lumaki' - not easy to leave where you grew up - college student Mark Lester Galin said when asked why his family opted to rebuild their house in the coastal barangay of Anibong in Tacloban City.

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