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    Land use involves the management and modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as settlements and semi-natural habitats...
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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 is the process of regulating the use of land by a central authority. Usually, this is done to promote more desirable social and environmental...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    Land change science refers to the interdisciplinary study of changes in climate, land use, and land cover. Land change science specifically seeks to evaluate...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 106–274 (text) (PDF), codified as 42 U.S.C...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • for dealing with land; dealing with income from land use agreements; and negotiations about leases for development on Aboriginal land. The Native Title...
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    Rewati; Roy, Uttam Kumar (2019-11-01). "Taxonomy of urban mixed land use planning". Land Use Policy. 88: 104102. doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104102. ISSN 0264-8377...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. Indirect CO2 emissions from land use change, and the emissions of methane, nitrous oxide and other greenhouse...
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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 Sustainable Land Use Forum (SLUF) is a local Ethiopian non-governmental organization established in 1995 in Addis Ababa. It is a network of like-minded...
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    Brownfield is land that is abandoned or underutilized due to pollution from industrial use. The specific definition of brownfield land varies and is decided...
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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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