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NAL Agricultural Thesaurus
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Concept Breadcrumbs

Natural Resources, Conservation, Environment > natural resource management > land management > green belt (land management)
Preferred Term:

green belt (land management)

Definition:
Areas around villages, towns or cities in which development is strictly controlled and usually not permitted at all. A useful device for preventing the endless sprawl of towns or the coagulation of one town with another, providing townspeople with a welcome release from the strain of city life, and protecting the special character of some towns. The main deficiency of green belt preservation is that it encourages the leap-frogging of development over the green belt to the land beyond it.
Concept Schemes:
NALT Full
Broader Concept:
land management
Related Concepts:
URI:
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/225058
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RDF/XMLCreated 2014-08-19, last modified 2014-11-17