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74 relations: Agricultural district, American Planning Association, Animal, Arable land, Biodiversity, Built environment, Citadel, Cultural landscape, Daniel R. Mandelker, Deforestation, Desertification, Earth, Easement, Ecosystem, Food and Agriculture Organization, Forest, Forest gardening, Fossil fuel, Greenhouse gas, Human impact on the environment, Human settlement, Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law, Journal of Transport and Land Use, Jurisdiction, Kastellet, Copenhagen, Land allocation decision support system, Land cover, Land development, Land management, Land Use Evolution and Impact Assessment Model, Land use, land-use change, and forestry, Land Utilisation Survey of Britain, Land-use conflict, Land-use forecasting, Land-use planning, List of types of formally designated forests, Management consulting, Michigan State University, National Agriculture Imagery Program, National Environmental Policy Act, National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, Natural environment, Natural landscape, Natural resource, New York City, Non-governmental organization, Nutrient, Pasture, Plant, Portland, Oregon, ..., Setback (architecture), Soil, Soil erosion, Soil retrogression and degradation, Soil salinity, Statutory law, Suburb, Temperate climate, Texas State University, Traffic, United Nations, Urban growth boundary, Urban planning, Urban sprawl, Urban studies, UrbanSim, Variance (land use), Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co., Washington University School of Law, Water, Water quality, Wilderness, Woodland, Zoning. Expand index (24 more) »
Agricultural district
In United States agricultural law, agricultural district is a planning term which defines an area within a local jurisdiction where farming is the preferred economic activity.
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American Planning Association
The American Planning Association (APA) is a professional organization representing the field of urban planning in the United States.
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Animal
Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.
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Arable land
Arable land (from Latin arabilis, "able to be plowed") is, according to one definition, land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops.
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.
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Built environment
In social science, the term built environment, or built world, refers to the human-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging in scale from buildings to parks.
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Citadel
A citadel is the core fortified area of a town or city.
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Cultural landscape
A cultural landscape, as defined by the World Heritage Committee, is the "cultural properties represent the combined works of nature and of man.".
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Daniel R. Mandelker
Daniel R. Mandelker is the Howard A. Stamper Professor of Law at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law.
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Deforestation
Deforestation, clearance, or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use.
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Desertification
Desertification is a type of land degradation in which a relatively dry area of land becomes increasingly arid, typically losing its bodies of water as well as vegetation and wildlife.
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Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.
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Easement
An easement is a nonpossessory right to use and/or enter onto the real property of another without possessing it.
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Ecosystem
An ecosystem is a community made up of living organisms and nonliving components such as air, water, and mineral soil.
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Food and Agriculture Organization
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture, Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'Alimentazione e l'Agricoltura) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.
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Forest
A forest is a large area dominated by trees.
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Forest gardening
Forest gardening is a low-maintenance sustainable plant-based food production and agroforestry system based on woodland ecosystems, incorporating fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables which have yields directly useful to humans.
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Fossil fuel
A fossil fuel is a fuel formed by natural processes, such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms, containing energy originating in ancient photosynthesis.
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Greenhouse gas
A greenhouse gas is a gas in an atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiant energy within the thermal infrared range.
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Human impact on the environment
Human impact on the environment or anthropogenic impact on the environment includes changes to biophysical environments and ecosystems, biodiversity, and natural resources caused directly or indirectly by humans, including global warming, environmental degradation (such as ocean acidification), mass extinction and biodiversity loss, ecological crises, and ecological collapse.
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Human settlement
In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community in which people live.
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Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law
The Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law is published twice a year at the Florida State University College of Law.
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Journal of Transport and Land Use
The Journal of Transport and Land Use is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal covering the interaction of transport and land use that was established in 2008.
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Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction (from the Latin ius, iuris meaning "law" and dicere meaning "to speak") is the practical authority granted to a legal body to administer justice within a defined field of responsibility, e.g., Michigan tax law.
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Kastellet, Copenhagen
Kastellet, (English: The Citadel) located in Copenhagen, Denmark, is one of the best preserved star fortresses in Northern Europe.
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Land allocation decision support system
LADSS, or land allocation decision support system, is an agricultural land-use planning tool developed at The Macaulay Institute.
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Land cover
Land cover is the physical material at the surface of the earth.
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Land development
Land development is altering the landscape in any number of ways such as.
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Land management
Land management is the process of managing the use and development (in both urban and rural settings) of land resources.
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Land Use Evolution and Impact Assessment Model
The Land Use Evolution and Impact Assessment Model (or LEAM) is a computer model developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Land use, land-use change, and forestry
Land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF) is defined by the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat as a "greenhouse gas inventory sector that covers emissions and removals of greenhouse gases resulting from direct human-induced land use such as settlements and commercial uses, land-use change, and forestry activities." LULUCF has impacts on the global carbon cycle and as such, these activities can add or remove carbon dioxide (or, more generally, carbon) from the atmosphere, influencing climate.
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Land Utilisation Survey of Britain
The Land Utilisation Survey of Britain (also Land Utilisation Survey of Great Britain) was a comprehensive survey of land use in Great Britain in the 1930s.
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Land-use conflict
A land-use conflict occurs when there are conflicting views on land-use policies, such as when an increasing population creates competitive demands for the use of the land, causing a negative impact on other land uses nearby.
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Land-use forecasting
Land-use forecasting undertakes to project the distribution and intensity of trip generating activities in the urban area.
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Land-use planning
In urban planning, land-use planning seeks to order and regulate land use in an efficient and ethical way, thus preventing land-use conflicts.
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List of types of formally designated forests
This is a list of types of formally designated forests, as used in various places around the world.
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Management consulting
Management consulting is the practice of helping organizations to improve their performance, operating primarily through the analysis of existing organizational problems and the development of plans for improvement.
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Michigan State University
Michigan State University (MSU) is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, United States.
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National Agriculture Imagery Program
The National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) acquires aerial imagery during the agricultural growing seasons in the continental United States.
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National Environmental Policy Act
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is a United States environmental law that promotes the enhancement of the environment and established the President's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ).
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National Historic Preservation Act of 1966
The National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA; Public Law 89-665; 54 U.S.C. 300101 et seq.) is legislation intended to preserve historical and archaeological sites in the United States of America.
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Natural environment
The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial.
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Natural landscape
A natural landscape is the original landscape that exists before it is acted upon by human culture.
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Natural resource
Natural resources are resources that exist without actions of humankind.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Non-governmental organization
Non-governmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, or nongovernment organizations, commonly referred to as NGOs, are usually non-profit and sometimes international organizations independent of governments and international governmental organizations (though often funded by governments) that are active in humanitarian, educational, health care, public policy, social, human rights, environmental, and other areas to effect changes according to their objectives.
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Nutrient
A nutrient is a substance used by an organism to survive, grow, and reproduce.
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Pasture
Pasture (from the Latin pastus, past participle of pascere, "to feed") is land used for grazing.
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Plant
Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.
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Portland, Oregon
Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County.
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Setback (architecture)
A setback, sometimes called step-back, is a step-like recession in a wall.
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Soil
Soil is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support life.
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Soil erosion
Soil erosion is the displacement of the upper layer of soil, one form of soil degradation.
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Soil retrogression and degradation
Soil retrogression and degradation are two regressive evolution processes associated with the loss of equilibrium of a stable soil.
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Soil salinity
Soil salinity is the salt content in the soil; the process of increasing the salt content is known as salinization.
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Statutory law
Statutory law or statute law is written law set down by a body of legislature or by a singular legislator (in the case of absolute monarchy).
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Suburb
A suburb is a mixed-use or residential area, existing either as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city.
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Temperate climate
In geography, the temperate or tepid climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes, which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.
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Texas State University
Texas State University is a public research university located in San Marcos, Texas, United States.
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Traffic
Traffic on roads consists of road users including pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars, buses and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using the public way for purposes of travel.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.
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Urban growth boundary
An urban growth boundary, or UGB, is a regional boundary, set in an attempt to control urban sprawl by, in its simplest form, mandating that the area inside the boundary be used for urban development and the area outside be preserved in its natural state or used for agriculture.
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Urban planning
Urban planning is a technical and political process concerned with the development and design of land use in an urban environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks.
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Urban sprawl
Urban sprawl or suburban sprawl describes the expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into low-density, monofunctional and usually car-dependent communities, in a process called suburbanization.
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Urban studies
Urban studies is based on the study of the urban development of cities.
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UrbanSim
UrbanSim is an open source urban simulation system designed by Paul Waddell of the University of California, Berkeley and developed with numerous collaborators to support metropolitan land use, transportation, and environmental planning.
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Variance (land use)
A 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 code.
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Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co.
Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co.,, more commonly Euclid v. Ambler, was a United States Supreme Court landmark case argued in 1926.
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Washington University School of Law
Washington University School of Law is a private American law school located in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Water
Water is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance that is the main constituent of Earth's streams, lakes, and oceans, and the fluids of most living organisms.
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Water quality
Water quality refers to the chemical, physical, biological, and radiological characteristics of water.
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Wilderness
Wilderness or wildland is a natural environment on Earth that has not been significantly modified by human activity.
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Woodland
Woodland, is a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade.
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Zoning
Zoning is the process of dividing land in a municipality into zones (e.g. residential, industrial) in which certain land uses are permitted or prohibited.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_use
