Excessive land usage

Visualization of narrower problems
Name(s): 
Destructive intensification of land use
Nature 
Intensifying land use has generally brought with it a simplification of ecosystems and a reduction of biodiversity. Important causes and disturbances are deforestation, fragmentation of ecosystems, regulation of water streams, monocultures, selective breeding, abandoning of traditional crop varieties and livestock breeds, excessive application of agrochemicals and urbanization.
Incidence 
Land-cover changes contribute around one-fifth of annual carbon dioxide releases.
Broader 
Land misuse
Excessive population demands on the environment
Narrower 
Deforestation
Intensive farming
Overregulation of waterways
Overdevelopment of golf courses
Fragmentation of natural habitat
Excessive use of land for agriculture
Excessive land usage by transport systems
Uncontrolled physical expansion of cities
Exploitation of land for the burial of the dead
Increasing proportion of land surface devoted to urbanization
Déforestation
Related 
Unused land
Unsustainable harvesting rates
Excessive consumption of resources in industrialized countries
Aggravates 
Limited available land
Insufficient pastureland
Scarcity of residential land
Shortage of natural resources
Misuse of agricultural chemicals
Unavailability of building sites
Declining breeds of cultivated plants
Increased reflection of solar radiation
Decreasing genetic diversity of animals
Destructive changes to biogeochemical cycles
Insufficient common land in urban environments
Increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
Aggravated by 
Rising sea level
Idle private land
Shortage of urban land
Strategy(ies) 
Analysing land cover change
Perpetuating environmental cycles
Value(s) 
Land
Excess
Type 
(D) Detailed problems