Land use is an umbrella term to describe what happens on a parcel of land. It concerns the benefits derived from using the land, and also the land management...

table with land use statistics by country. Countries are ranked by their total cultivated land area, which is the sum of the total arable land area and...

Land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF), also referred to as Forestry and other land use (FOLU) or Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU)...

Land use planning or Land-use regulation is the process of regulating the use of land by a central authority. Usually, this is done to promote more desirable...

Land law is the form of law that deals with the rights to use, alienate, or exclude others from land. In many jurisdictions, these kinds of property are...

variance is a deviation from the set of rules a municipality applies to land use and land development, typically a zoning ordinance, building code or municipal...

Land-use forecasting undertakes to project the distribution and intensity of trip generating activities in the urban area. In practice, land-use models...

In land use, a setback is the minimum distance which a building or other structure must be set back from a street or road, a river or other stream, a shore...

The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), Pub. L. 106–274 (text) (PDF), codified as 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc et seq., is a United States...

A land-use conflict occurs when there are conflicting views on land-use policies, such as when an increasing population creates competitive demands for...

Land use in China is experiencing massive changes and impacts to the environment due to an unprecedented period of economic growth, which has catapulted...

aspects of the land use change. "Land improvement" in the economic sense can often lead to land degradation from the ecological perspective. Land development...

method in which a municipality or other tier of government divides land into land-use "zones", each of which has a set of regulations for new development...

The policies protecting land used in Big Sur are some of the most restrictive local-use standards in California, and are widely regarded as one of the...

The ways in which land is used in Wales reflect conditions of climate, geology and topography, modified by long traditions of land management. Sheep-grazed...

The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) is a non-profit research and education organization involved in exploring, examining, and understanding contemporary...

In land-use planning, a locally unwanted land use (LULU) is a land use that creates externality costs on those living in close proximity. These costs...

cycle, nitrogen cycle, and water cycle. One-third of land is covered in trees, another third is used for agriculture, and one-tenth is covered in permanent...

Land use capability maps are maps created to represent the potential uses of a "unit" of land. They are measured using various indicators, although the...

western Oregon counties affected by the land fraud scandal 1913: public access to beaches formalized—originally for use as highways—codified general public...

Land use policy is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering various aspects of land use research. It is published by Elsevier and was established...

The Land Use Statistics of the Federal Statistical Office collect information in 12-year intervals about Switzerland's land use and land cover based on...

Agricultural land is typically land devoted to agriculture, the systematic and controlled use of other forms of life—particularly the rearing of livestock...

The indirect land use change impacts of biofuels, also known as ILUC or iLUC (pronounced as i-luck), relates to the unintended consequence of releasing...

special-use permit authorizes land uses that are allowed and encouraged by the ordinance and declared harmonious with the applicable zoning district. Land use...

Nonconforming use in urban planning the use of land that was authorised at the time the use was created but is no longer allowed due to changes made to...

Arable land (from the Latin: arabilis, "able to be ploughed") is any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops. Alternatively, for the purposes...

A land use regression model (LUR model) is an algorithm often used for analyzing pollution, particularly in densely populated areas. The model is based...

jurisdiction's land into districts, or zones, and limits how land in each district can be used. In the United States, zoning includes various land use laws enforced...

fossil fuels since the industrial revolution. Indirect emissions from land use change, emissions of other greenhouse gases such as nitrous oxide, and...