Land use by Jens
Land use involves the human modification of natural environments into built environments like fields, pastures, and settlements. This can have several consequences including increased energy consumption, loss of soil and habitats, species extinction, loss of agricultural land, and increased settlement and traffic areas, resulting in less biodiversity. Specifically, buildings, roads, mines, and storage areas directly lead to soil and habitat loss as well as lost nesting sites, which are primary causes of species extinction. Economically, land use causes declining relative population densities, higher infrastructure costs, longer supply routes, and loss of agricultural land. Socio-economic changes, settlement structure concepts, and public funding support more area-consuming designs and complex transportation forms. Countermeasures include limiting
Land use by Jens
- 1. Land use Jens Lindemann, 30th September 2010
- 2. Definition human use of land modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as fields, pastures, and settlements
- 3. Consequences Energy consump-tion Loss of soil and habitats Extinc-tion Loss of agri-cultural land Settle-ment and traffic area Less Bio-diversity Economic conse-quences Develop-ment of land use Eco-logical conse-quences Land use
- 4. Ecological consequences Buildings, roads, mining areas and storage areas lead to a direct loss of soil and habitats Nesting sites lost Main causes of species extinction
- 5. Economic consequences declining relative population density higher infrastructure costs longer supply routes loss of agricultural land more traffic, more waste gases
- 6. The causes socio-economic change settlement structure concepts public funding
- 7. Socio-economic change Changes in the working world through the use of land-intensive techniques Expansion of educational and cultural institutions Increase in households even with stagnant population (fewer children, more childless couples and single people)
- 8. Settlement structure concepts "Home in the country" is the area-consuming design and requires at least three times the land area (roads included) to an urban alternative
- 9. Public funding Trend of surface complex housing and transport forms is supported by the State
- 10. Countermeasures Many home and garden owners can limit soil sealing to a minimum and provide opportunities for the infiltration of rain water Garden as a natural garden design with native plants