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Article: Harmonizing population and coastal resources in the Philippines.
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- World Watch
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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With half of the human population now living on or near the world's coasts, maintaining a healthy interdependence between coastal ecosystems and human communities is critical to the stability of both. In the Philippines, progressive communities have begun to show how that interdependence can best work.
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