Land Use

What is Land use?

LAND USE is:

the usage of land for a great many purposes. Mainly for
building structures or other similar sites.
essential to humans and can not be avoided.
Humans use it for housing, farming, industrial reasons,
recreational as well as great many other reasons.
WHAT ARE THE PROBLEMS WITH LAND
USE?
The problem with land usage is that there is a limited
amount of land on earth as well as there being a high
amount of land that is unusable or that it is protected.
This therefore raises the problem that we shall eventually
run out of land.
We are destroying natural habitats of many creatures
which is only adding more animals to the endangered list.



What is LAND used for?




WHAT IS LAND USED FOR?
growing crops
raising livestock
building mines (open cut, shaft, insito, surface)
building cities (urbanisation)
deforestation (timber mills)
factories and other facilities
recreational structures (theme parks etc.)
dredging
airports and harbours.

Categorisation
Urbanisation Agriculture Forestry Mining Recreation
Cities Crops, farms Parks Open cast mines Recreational
structures
Factories (and
similar facilities)
Land for cattle and
other live stock.
Forest Shaft mines Certain facilities
Timber mills Dredging
Dams
Airports, railways,
sea ports
(harbours), Roads
Rural areas
The Consequences of Urbanisation




WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF
URBANISATION?
As a result of urbanisation the green house emission rates
increases dramatically.

Destroys animal habitats leading to the extinction and
endangering of animals species.

Leads to large scale pollution (water ways).

Leads to the usage of precious metals (copper, iron)


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