Land capability and soil productivity are fundamentally intertwined concepts critical to sustainable land management. Land capability refers to the inherent potential and limitations of a parcel of ...

I shall break my discussion of the roles of the universities to address the issue of land use with the hope that those about to make decisions on the use of lands for housing or agriculture may be ...

(b) Brief Definition: Change over time of the distribution of land uses within a country. Land use is characterized by the arrangements, activities and inputs that people undertake in a specific land ...

There are four major uses of our land space: Built areas (housing, business); conservation areas (forests, wetlands); recreation (parks, sporting areas); agriculture (including cultivated forests). In ...

Mongabay is publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese. In addition to regulating land tenure, ...

Brazilian scientists have developed a slope-based framework for agrivoltaics, finding that sites below 15% gradient offer the best balance between agricultural suitability and technical feasibility.

Current estimates of land-use change may be capturing only one-quarter of its true extent across the world, new research shows. The paper, published in Nature Communications, revises previous ...

A new scientific report lays bare the stark impacts of land-system change and land degradation on planetary health, while also offering solutions to these problems. The report was published on the eve ...

KS2 Geography: Settlements. Changing land use. EVA: Get set for an exciting journey. I’ll be your guide, ‘Earth’s Virtual Assistant’. But you can call me E.V.A. Your mission is to discover how humans ...