Land Resources
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Related Topics: Agriculture, Economic Value, Land Resources
Grazing Lands
Any vegetated land that is grazed or has the potential to be grazed by animals (domestic and wild). This term is all-inclusive and covers all kinds and types of land that can be grazed. [AGROVOC]
Related Topics: Application Processes and Equipment, Land Resources, Wastes
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Land Use
The occupation or reservation of land or water area for any human activity or any defined purpose. It also includes use of the air space above the land or water.
Related Topics: Land Resources, Natural Resources, Leisure, Recreation and Tourism
Urban Areas
The built-up or densely populated area containing the city proper; suburbs, and continuously settled commuter areas; definitions of urban areas vary by countries.
Watersheds
The land area that drains water to a particular stream, river, or lake. It is a land feature that can be identified by tracing a line along the highest elevations between two areas on a map, often a ridge.
Wildland
Lands unoccupied by crops, pastures, urban, residential, industrial or transportation facilities. Lands over which man has not extended his complete and permanent domain with his bulldozers, plows and asphalt spreaders.
Wildland-Urban Interface
The common area where human settlements and built structures are intermixed and/or adjacent to undeveloped land in which the vegetation is permitted to grow without significant human interference.