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A tale of two decades: Typhoons and floods, Manila and the provinces, and the Marcos years
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A tale of two decades: Typhoons and floods, Manila and the provinces, and the Marcos years

J.F. Warren
The Asia–Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, Vol.11(43/3)
2013
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Abstract

In the second half of the twentieth century, typhoon-triggered floods affected all sectors of society in the Philippines, but none more so than the urban poor, particularly the esteros-dwellers or shanty-town inhabitants, residing in the low-lying locales of Manila and a number of other cities on Luzon and the Visayas…

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