Land reclamation will definitely increase land area for a certain country. With more land, more buildings and infrastructure can be built, and also for other reasons. In Singapore, land reclamation is intense, and reclaimed land is everywhere. It is used to build Marina Bay, which is the location of Integrated Resorts, financial centers and the Singapore Flyer, a ferris wheel. However, as there are advantages, there are also disadvantages too. Land reclamation can be damaging to corals and marine life. Corals are usually moved to another place when land is to be reclaimed. The corals might not be able to survive in that certain habitat, and thus die out. In some countries, where the project is large-scale, they do not even bother to re-plant the corals elsewhere, instead just reclaim the land on their habitat, causing them to die out immediately. Marine life, such as fishes, might not have enough food after the underwater plantations are destroyed due to reclamation of land. This applies to the food chain. The waters might also be polluted from the soil used to reclaim land, causing the fishes to die and blocking out sunlight, depriving the underwater plants of growth. Marine habitats are also destroyed, as mentioned earlier; therefore, the marine creatures would be forced to move to another new habitat. Some might not be able to adapt, and thus die out. Some would just die without even finding a new habitat, as they cannot move long distances in water. Of course, the reasons and examples look tempting to us humans, but marine life is life too! We should try to protect is as much as possible, instead of just focusing on the advantages.

Increasing the price of land is one of the methods to respond to the rising demand for land. The advantages if increasing the price of land include having less people fighting for a particular spot of land in a popular area in the country as only those with a lot of money and can afford the land would but it. The disadvantage will be having the poor people kept far out of popular areas and the rich are just a rare minority.

Land clearance by deforestation is also used as a method to respond to the rising demand for land. Forest take up a lot of space and to many, it is just a big and wide open space of land waiting to be used. Therefore, many of these people resort to deforestation. The obvious advantage is that we get to clear land fast. However, there are many disadvantages to having to resort to deforestation. These include killing many species of plants and animals and destroying their own home. We will also be affected by soil erosion and the disruption in the hydrologic cycle.