Land u and land ma practices have a major impa natural resources including water, soil, nutrients, plants and animals. Land u information be ud to develop solutions for natural resource ma 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 tho ihat are forested.
The major effect of land u on land cover since 1750 has been deforestation of temperate regions. More ret signifit effects of land u include urban sprawl, soil erosion, soil degradation, salinization, aification. Land-u ge together with u of fossil fuels, are the major anthropogenic sources of carbon dioxide, a dominant greenhou gas.
Acc to a report by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture anisation, land degradation has been exacerbated where there has been an abnce of any land u planning, or of its orderly execution, or the existence of financial al iives that have led to the wrong land u decisions, or one-sided tral planning leading to over-utilization of the land resources—for instanmediate produ at all costs. As a quehe result has often been miry for large gments of the local population aru of valuable ecosystems. Suarroroaches should be replaced by a teique for the planning and ma of land resources that is ied and holistid where land urs are tral. This will ehe long-term quality of the land for human u, the prevention or resolution of social flicts related to land u, and the rvation of ecosystems of high biodiversity value.
Land u and land ma practices have a major impa natural resources including water, soil, nutrients, plants and animals. Land u information be ud to develop solutions for natural resource ma 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 tho ihat are forested.