GEOG 205 Lecture Notes - Agroforestry, Evapotranspiration, Permafrost
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What is land use? what do we use land for? transportation: agriculture, raising livestock, residential, commercial, industrial, parks & conservation, recreation, extractive activities logging. Amount of land for crops only is about 12% 36% for crops + pasture. Amount of land for conservation areas is about 11-12% Extractive activities (logging, mining, etc. ) areas have no estimation of land use take relatively small amount of land but the impacts are wide, so it"s hard to measure in terms of area. Urban areas take up only 3% of global land 50% of people on earth live in urban areas. Global land use change over time questions to consider after watching the video: what type of major historical events seem to have an impact on land use? industrial revolution colonization. Political situations: name one change that surprised you first land uses were agriculture there is evidence of farming fields that were abandoned over.
