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...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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A land-use conflict occurs when there are conflicting views on land-use policies, such as when an increasing population creates competitive demands for...
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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...
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Zoning (redirect from Rezone (land use))
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...
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Land-use forecasting undertakes to project the distribution and intensity of trip generating activities in the urban area. In practice, land-use models...
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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...
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Land use in China is experiencing massive changes and impacts to the environment due to an unprecedented period of economic growth, which has catapulted...
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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...
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sometimes advertised as land improvement or land amelioration. It refers to investment making land more usable by humans. For accounting purposes, it refers...
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western Oregon counties affected by the land fraud scandal 1913: public access to beaches formalized—originally for use as highways—codified general public...
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A land use regression model (LUR model) is an algorithm often used for analyzing pollution, particularly in densely populated areas. The model is based...
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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...
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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...
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Agricultural land is typically land devoted to agriculture, the systematic and controlled use of other forms of life—particularly the rearing of livestock...
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The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) is a non-profit research and education organization involved in exploring, examining, and understanding contemporary...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Land reform (also known as agrarian reform) involves the changing of laws, regulations, or customs regarding land ownership, land use, and land transfers...
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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...
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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...
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The Land Use and Forestry Directive 2018 is an EU Directive that regulates the use of land and transparency in forestry activities. Articles 1 to 4 of...
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flow land use management, or CircUse, is a name for a particular process in which neglected land in urban areas is put to better uses. CircUse as a concept...
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Rewati; Roy, Uttam Kumar (2019-11-01). "Taxonomy of urban mixed land use planning". Land Use Policy. 88: 104102. Bibcode:2019LUPol..8804102R. doi:10.1016/j...
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