There exists an eternal conflict between humankind and land.
Demands for any form of land use are invariably greater than
available land resources (Ozcan, Cetin, & Diker, 2003) e a situation
exacerbated in many countries by rapid urbanization and population
growth. While increased areas of land are required to
sustain future development, land is a non-renewable natural
resource and seemingly unlimited demand for the limited area
available is causing increasingly serious problems. For instance,
land reclamation in Hong Kong is being carried on for many years in
order to create more land for the increasing land demands,
however, it has always been a controversial means of land supply
because some reclamation projects completed years ago deteriorated
the ecological environment and even landscape of the
Victoria Harbour.