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Changes in land use and land cover date to prehistory and are the direct and indirect consequence of human actions to secure essential resources. This may first have occurred with the burning of areas to enhance the availability of wild game and accelerated dramatically with the birth of agriculture, resulting in the extensive clearing (deforestation) and management of Earth?s terrestrial surface that continues today. More recently, industrialization has encouraged the concentration of human populations within urban areas (urbanization) and the depopulation of rural areas, accompanied by the intensification of agriculture in the most productive lands and the abandonment of marginal lands. All of these causes and their consequences are observable simultaneously around the world today.
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It started exactly around the time of hunter-gatherers. It was the beginning of civilization and with out it there would have been no cities today. Ergo, there are advantages and disadvantages to this land use and land cover
Posted 28-11-2014 09:23
Yes.This is actually occurring nowadays. Land use conversion from forest land to agriculture and industrialization. Hope this problem will be solved and will open the eyes of the people of how it is important to have a forest in terms of our living :)
Posted 21-11-2014 10:58
Cool!!
Posted 21-11-2014 10:15
Land cover and land change......
Posted 20-11-2014 23:19