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This unique addition to reference literature provides an introduction to the major concepts and contemporary issues that are essential for students of environmental science and environmental studies to know. With over 200 entries authored by world-class names like Anthony Brazel, John Day and Edward Keller, this text is divided into six sections: Environmental Science, Environments, Paradigms & Concepts, Processes & Dynamics, Scales & Techniques, and Environmental Issues.
Land Evaluation
Land Evaluation
The estimation of the potential of land for specific kinds of use, including productive uses such as arable farming, livestock production and forestry together with uses that provide services or other benefits such as water catchment areas, recreation, tourism and wildlife conservation. Land evaluation identifies variations in landscape quality as a basis for developing strategies for landscape conservation, management and enhancement; it can therefore involve comparison of the requirements of land use with the resource potential offered by the environment. Whereas landscape ecology is more general, landscape evaluation has the advantage that the approach is use-specific, but it cannot be utilized for other purposes and can be very labour-intensive.
Landscape evaluation has been undertaken by:
- Development from systematic data sources, so that national ...
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