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land management
- Subject Category
- P Natural Resources, Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Definition
- The intentional process of planning, organizing, programming, coordinating, directing, and controlling land use actions.
- Definition Source
- Schwarz, Charles F.; Thor, Edward C.; Elsner, Gary H. 1976. Wildland planning glossary. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-13. Berkeley, Calif.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station
- RDF/XML Format:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/39546.rdf
- Persistent URI:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/39546
- Used For
- land conservation
- land resource management
- Broader Term
- natural resource management
- Narrower Term
- coastal zone management
- ecological site descriptions
- farmland preservation
- green belt (land management)
- land classification
- land clearing
- land evaluation
- land forming
- land improvement
- land productivity
- land restoration
- land retirement
- land suitability
- land surveying
- land use
- pasture management
- range management
- riverbank protection
- sustainable land management
- watershed management
- wetland management
- wilderness management
- Related Term
- absentee landowners
- adaptive management
- land cover
- land economics
- land resources
- Spanish
- ordenación de tierras
- Term Number
- 39546