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How we use land

2. Where did the land go? Between 1984 – 1992
84,000 hectares of farm, forest, and range converted into suburbs
~ 210,000 acres

3. Land Use Land cover – what you find on a patch of land
Depends on how the land is used:
Forest
Farm
Parking lot

5. Urban Land
Urban – land that is covered mainly with buildings and roads
2,500 or more people with a governing body

7. Rural Land
Rural – contains relatively few people and large areas of open space
Most land provides one or more resources that humans consume

9. Where We Live Until 1850 most people lived in rural areas Farmers
Raised livestock
Worked mines or mills
Managed forests

10. Industrial Revolution
More machines = fewer people to operate farms and mills
Better transportation
People moved to cities for work
Today most people live in urban areas

11. Urban-Rural Connection
People depend on resources produced in rural areas
Water
Soil
Crops
Trees
Oxygen

12. Ecosystem services – resources that are produced by natural and artificial ecosystems

13. Supporting Urban Areas
Area of rural land needed to support one person depends on:
Climate
Standard of living
Efficiency of resources

14. Developed country – 8 hectares
US – 12 hectares
Germany – 6 hectares
Developing countries – far less than 1