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Land use

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-015330

1. The way land is used by humans. Forest, agricultural land and urban/suburban land are all land uses.

2. The way land is developed and used with respect to the kinds of anthropogenic (human-induced) activities that occur (e.g., agriculture, residential uses, industrial uses).

3. All occupation and use of land. The type of land is determined by the flow context associated with this flowable [Original source: https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_record_Report.cfm?dirEntryId=347251&Lab=NRMRL].

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-015330
FieldEnvironment
SubjectEcosystems
ReferencesChesapeake Bay Glossary; EPA Guidelines to Assessing Regional Vulnerabilities at http://www.epa.gov/reva/docs/guidelines_reva_20080627.pdf; Federal LCA Commons Elementary Flow List for Life Cycle Assessment
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-015330",
  "term": "Land use",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. The way land is used by humans. Forest, agricultural land and urban/suburban land are all land uses.\n\n2. The way land is developed and used with respect to the kinds of anthropogenic (human-induced) activities that occur (e.g., agriculture, residential uses, industrial uses).\n\n3. All occupation and use of land. The type of land is determined by the flow context associated with this flowable [Original source: https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_record_Report.cfm?dirEntryId=347251&Lab=NRMRL].",
  "subject": "Ecosystems",
  "references": [
    "Chesapeake Bay Glossary",
    "EPA Guidelines to Assessing Regional Vulnerabilities at http://www.epa.gov/reva/docs/guidelines_reva_20080627.pdf",
    "Federal LCA Commons Elementary Flow List for Life Cycle Assessment"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/land-use/"
}

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