Land development
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Land development is the alteration of landscape in any number of ways such as:Changing landforms from a natural or semi-natural state for a purpose such as agriculture or housing
Subdividing real estate into lots, typically for the purpose of building homes
Real estate development or changing its purpose, for example by converting an unused factory complex into a condominium.
Since their invention, heavy equipment such as bulldozers have been useful for earthmoving in land development.
Motorway construction in Ireland
Building construction
In Argentina and Bolivia, the Chaco thorn forest (A) is being felled at a rate considered among the highest in the world (B), to give way to soybean cultivation (C)
Land degradation
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Land degradation is a process in which the value of the biophysical environment also known as biochemical environment is affected by a combination of human-induced processes acting upon the land.
It is viewed as any change or disturbance to the land perceived to be deleterious or undesirable. Natural hazards are excluded as a cause; however human activities can indirectly affect phenomena such as floods and bush fires.
Serious land degradation in Nauru after the depletion of the phosphate cover through mining
Potato field with soil erosion
Overgrazing by livestock can lead to land degradation
Soil erosion in a wheat field near Pullman, US