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Employing unused land

Synonyms:
Using unused land
Planning use of vacant land
Undertaking development of land
Developing underdeveloped lands
Undertaking greenfield development
Developing unexploited land
Developing open land
Broader:
Farming
Rural planning
Developing land
Land use planning
Narrower:
Clearing unused land
Developing brown field sites
Recovering unused urban spaces
Creating footpaths
Developing land believed unprofitable
Facilitates:
Destroying the countryside
Facilitated by:
Opening access to public land
Creating community land trust
Releasing additional usable land
Increasing amount of water for food production
Correcting defective land use planning
Problems:
Deliberately unused farm fields
Insufficient use of natural resources
Underutilization of resources
Unused land
Obliteration of footpaths by development
Ecotourism
Values:
Land
Unused
Development
Undeveloped
Overdevelopment
Underdevelopment
Subjects:
Land type/use
Employers
Resource utilization
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies

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The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a collaboration between UIA and Mankind 2000, started in 1972. It is the result of an ambitious effort to collect and present information on the problems with which humanity is confronted, as well as the challenges such problems pose to concept formation, values and development strategies.  Problems included are those identified in international periodicals but especially in the documents of some 60,000 international non-profit organizations, profiled in the Yearbook of International Organizations.

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