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'Land use' is also often used to refer to the distinct land use types in Zoning.

Land use is the human modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as fields, pastures, and settlements. The major effect of land use on land cover since 1750 has been deforestation of temperate regions.^[1] More recent significant effects of land use include urban sprawl, soil erosion, soil degradation, salinization, and desertification.^[2] Land-use change, together with use of fossil fuels, are the major anthropogenic sources of carbon dioxide, a dominant greenhouse gas.^[3] Image File history File links Gnome-globe. ... A typical zoning map; this one identifies the zones, or development districts, in the city of Ontario, California Zoning is a North American term for a system of land-use regulation. ... This article is about the natural environment. ... For other uses, see Wilderness (disambiguation). ... The phrase refers to the manmade surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places. ... Land cover is the physical material at the surface of the earth. ... Events March 2 - Small earthquake in London, England April 4 - Small earthquake in Warrington, England August 23 - Small earthquake in Spalding, England September 30 - Small earthquake in Northampton, England November 16 – Westminster Bridge officially opened Jonas Hanway is the first Englishman to use an umbrella James Gray reveals her sex... This article is about the process of deforestation in the environment. ... For the usage in virology, see temperate (virology). ... Urban sprawl (also: suburban sprawl) is the spreading out of a city and its suburbs over rural land at the fringe of an urban area. ... Severe soil erosion in a wheat field near Washington State University, USA. Erosion is the displacement of solids (soil, mud, rock, and so forth) by the agents of wind, water, ice, or movement in response to gravity. ... Retrogression and degradation are two regressive evolution processes associated with the loss of equilibrium of a stable soil. ... Soil salination results from the accumulation of free salts to such an extent that it leads to degradation of soils and vegetation. ... Ship stranded by the retreat of the Aral Sea Desertification is the degradation of land in arid, semi arid and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various climatic variations, but primarily from human activities. ... Fossil fuels or mineral fuels are fossil source fuels, this is, hydrocarbons found within the top layer of the earth’s crust. ... Look up anthropogenic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Top: Increasing atmospheric CO2 levels as measured in the atmosphere and ice cores. ...

Municipal land use

Villages, cities, towns, boroughs, townships and counties are all governed by a set of designations assigned to particular parcels of land. Each designation, known as a parcel’s zoning, comes with a list of approved uses that can legally operate on the zoned parcel. These are found in a government’s ordinances or zoning regulations. A typical zoning map; this one identifies the zones, or development districts, in the city of Ontario, California Zoning is a North American term for a system of land-use regulation. ... Zoning is a North American term for a system of land-use regulation. ...

Land use and the environment

Land use and land management practices have a major impact on natural resources including water, soil, nutrients, plants and animals. Land use information can be used to develop solutions for natural resource management issues such as salinity and water quality. For instance, water bodies in a region that has been deforested or having erosion will have different water quality than those in areas that are forested.

According to a report by FAO, land degradation has been exacerbated where there has been an absence of any land use planning, or of its orderly execution, or the existence of financial or legal incentives that have led to the wrong land use decisions, or one-sided central planning leading to over-utilization of the land resources - for instance for immediate production at all costs. As a consequence the result has often been misery for large segments of the local population and destruction of valuable ecosystems. Such narrow approaches should be replaced by a technique for the planning and management of land resources that is integrated and holistic and where land users are central. This will ensure the long-term quality of the land for human use, the prevention or resolution of social conflicts related to land use, and the conservation of ecosystems of high biodiversity value

United States!

In America, every legal activity must have its place in municipal and county zoning laws. Meaning if an adult entertainment facility can legally operate in a given jurisdiction, then the zoning laws must offer a proper and by-right zone for that business to operate within. With this example in mind, one can guess that choosing zoning wisely can make or break a city’s image and inevitably its ability to attract more favorable business and industry. A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ... A county is generally a sub-unit of regional self-government within a sovereign jurisdiction. ... A typical zoning map; this one identifies the zones, or development districts, in the city of Ontario, California Zoning is a North American term for a system of land-use regulation. ...

To regulate what can be built where, cities create comprehensive plans and zoning ordinances to create an order to the potential uses of land within their political boundaries. A municipality will spend thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars to determine where best to encourage industrial growth, allow residential building and permit commercial activity. These decisions have dramatic impacts on land values, safety and community interests. With so much at stake, the process of determining what can be built where has become extremely politicized.

Today active community groups wield much strength in the public land use approval process. Informed residents know the potential impacts of a large big box coming to their neighborhood or the opening of a quarry a mile down the road. When involved they shape the process and are more likely now than ever to actually impact the process. Politics plays a big part in the approval process. But the reality is that mostly developers create the rules. In the absence of opposition, a developer can change the real estate landscape for years to come by successfully rezoning one large parcel in area. Where there is opposition, today’s developers have to take heed and listen to their demands. A big box is a box that is big. ...

With financial stakes so high for developers and residents and the approval process being susceptible to public pressure and politics, it is no surprise that there is now a subset of political culture known as land use politics. The late Speaker of the US House Tip ONeill coined the phrase, “All Politics are local”. Land use politics consists of political activity surrounding the local decision-making processes on how land is used. ...

Patterns of land use arise naturally in a culture through customs and practices, but land use may also be formally regulated by land use planning through zoning and planning permission laws, or by private agreements such as restrictive covenants. For example, the setting aside of wilderness either publicly as a Wilderness Area or privately as a conservation easement. Land use planning is the term used for a branch of public policy which encompasses various disciplines which seek to order and regulate the use of land in an efficient way. ... A typical zoning map; this one identifies the zones, or development districts, in the city of Ontario, California Zoning is a North American term for a system of land-use regulation. ... Main article: Town and Country Planning in the United Kingdom Planning permission or planning consent is the permission required in the United Kingdom in order to be allowed to build on land, or change the use of land or buildings. ... A restrictive covenant is a legal obligation imposed in a deed by the seller upon the buyer of real estate to do or not to do something. ... Broadly, a wilderness area is a region where the land is left in a state where human modifications are minimal; that is, as a wilderness. ... In the United States, a conservation easement is an easement — a transfer of usage rights — which creates a legally enforceable land preservation agreement between a landowner and a municipality or a qualified land protection organization (often called a land trust), for the purposes of conservation. ...

See also

• Industrial (disambiguation)
• Building setback
• Easement
• Land Allocation Decision Support System
• Land cover
• Land use forecasting
• Land use, land-use change and forestry
• Planning
• Traffic
• Urbanization
• Variance (land use)

Look up Industrial, Industry in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Setbacks on the Pyramid of Djoser. ... An easement is the right to do something or the right to prevent something over the real property of another. ... LADSS or Land Allocation Decision Support System, is an agricultural land use planning tool being developed at The Macaulay Institute. ... Land cover is the physical material at the surface of the earth. ... Land use forecasting undertakes to project the distribution and intensity of trip generating activities in the urban area. ... Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) is a term often used in climate change topics. ... For planning in AI, see automated planning and scheduling. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... In zoning, a variance is an administrative exception to land use regulations, generally in order to compensate for a deficiency in a real property which would prevent the property from complying with the zoning regulation. ...

References

External links

• Schindler's Land Use Page (Michigan State University Extension Land Use Team)
• Land Policy Insitute at Michigan State University
• Cyburbia Fourms land use and zoning subforum