ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

Human values

Land

Land

Broader

Problem

Unassigned public land

Soil degradation

Shortage of waste landfill sites

Environmental hazards of empolderment of wetlands

Destruction of wetland environments

Destruction of agricultural land

Cultivation of marginal agricultural land

Anti-personnel bombs

Agricultural mismanagement

Vulnerability of lakes and rivers

Unequal property distribution

Uneconomical small farms

Uncertain land zoning

Threatened seasonal inland saline lake habitats

Soil salinization

Shortage of urban land

Rival claims for conservation land

Rising water table

Rising sea level

Prohibitive cost of land

Pollution of inland waters

Oxygen depletion in inland water bodies

Misuse of agricultural land for fuel production

Maldistribution of land through customary tenure systems

Maldistribution of land associated with large traditional estates

Maldistribution of agricultural land

Leaching of salts through irrigation

Land subsidence

Land degradation

Insufficient common land in urban environments

Increasing proportion of land surface devoted to urbanization

Inadequate rail transport facilities

Inadequate inland waterway transport facilities

Inadequate arrangement of housing with respect to common land

Excessive military usage of land

Excessive land usage by transport systems

Excessive land usage

Disorganized approach to land ownership in tropical villages

Destruction of land productivity

Derelict industrial wastelands

Deliberately unused farm fields

Degradation of cultivated land systems

Degradation of agricultural land by cash crops

Declining agricultural land

Boundary constraints on land planning

Alienation of land through acquisition by foreigners

Adverse environmental consequences of depressed agricultural prices

Unregulated land ownership

Unbridled competition for land

Unavailability of building sites

Tradition-bound land distribution

Threatened tree-dominated freshwater wetland habitats

Threatened species of Stylommatophora

Threatened permanent inland delta habitats

Threatened irrigated land wetland habitats

Shortage of land for cemeteries

Scarcity of residential land

Reduction of fallow periods on agricultural land

Land rehabilitation difficulty

Land controlled by business groups

Irresponsible property tenants

Insufficient public land upkeep

Inadequate working conditions for land tenants

Effluent runoff from agricultural land use

Discredited moneyed hereditary class

Difficult land acquisition

Desiccation of lakes

Declining area of irrigated land

Unproven land preparation techniques

Uncoordinated use of community property

Unchecked crab damage to crops

Threatened species of Triodopsis occidentalis

Threatened species of Polygyra peregrina

Threatened species of Paryphanta traversi

Threatened species of Paryphanta rossiana

Threatened species of Paryphanta lignaria

Threatened species of Paryphanta hochstetteri

Threatened species of Paryphanta gilliesi

Threatened species of Paryphanta

Threatened species of Mesodon jonesianus

Threatened species of Mesodon archeri

Threatened species of Melanochelys tricarinata

Threatened species of Land operculates

Threatened species of Conolophus subcristatus

Threatened species of Conolophus pallidus

Threatened species of Conolophus

Threatened habitats on natural grazing lands

Threatened habitats of shelterbelts

Threatened habitats in croplands

Restrictive land ordinances

Restricted land choices

Ownership as a basis for land allocation

Obscure ownership records

Loss of agricultural land due to artificial flooding

Limited family land

Land reclamation

Lack of transport vehicles

Irrational land divisions

Insufficient pastureland

Insufficient loan collateral

Inadequate agricultural capital

Idle private land

Exploitation of land for the burial of the dead

Excessive use of land by automobiles

Disrespect for the land

Conflicting land rights

Blocked land negotiations

Arbitrary land assessments

Air pollution from agricultural land use

Strategy

Providing affordable loans to women

Improving agroforestry practices by clarifying land tenure

Ensuring sustainable agricultural development

Ensuring comprehensive system of protected areas

Developing sustainable land use policy

Using residue management agriculture

Rehabilitating degraded land

Reclaiming land

Protecting best farmland for agriculture

Promoting women's access to land and property

Maximizing agricultural land yield

Managing agricultural lands

Incorporating sustainable indigenous management systems for land resources

Improving land markets

Improving inland waterway transport facilities

Implementing land reform

Developing marginal agricultural lands

Creating community land trust

Analysing land cover change

Working the land

Improving land use practices to prevent silting of lakes

Creating comprehensive drainage scheme

Converting land to crops

Utilizing available land resources

Using swidden-fallow land management

Using public environment

Using land-locked and island countries as havens

Using environmentally sound land-use practices

Using economic instruments to encourage sustainable use of land resources

Undertaking surveys on land capability for afforestation

Undertaking research on land use

Undertaking national survey of land resources

Uncovering purchasable land

Unbalancing exports and imports of land-locked developing countries

Treating land infertility

Transferring sustainable land management practices to and among developing countries

Training on land conservation

Training in land resource management

Supporting research on land degradation

Supporting professional associations on land management sciences

Supporting investments in land resources

Studying contaminated land

Structuring land resources guardianship

Strengthening United Nations advisory role on drought, desertification and land resource management

Strengthening monopolized land ownership

Strengthening local organizations responsible for land management

Strengthening land management research

Strengthening international coordination of land resource management activities

Stabilizing land

Simplifying land system

Settling indigenous land claims

Setting land boundaries

Setting aside land for cash crops

Securing private land holdings

Reviewing public agencies responsible for land resource management

Restricting land

Restricting agricultural land

Respecting the land

Respecting land rights of a people

Resolving competing land use requirements

Resisting foreign ownership of land

Researching soil infertility

Researching migration to rural areas

Researching land use

Relieving scarcity of residential land

Relieving scarcity of land

Releasing additional usable land

Reinventing the commons

Rehabilitating land degraded by water-logging

Regulating sea access for land-locked countries

Reducing public land ownership

Reducing pollution of inland waters

Recovering land lost to plantations

Recording landslip disasters

Reclaiming land with solid waste

Rationalizing land

Raising public revenues by land tax

Providing sufficient land space

Providing short term land tenure

Providing security for land-locked countries

Providing sea access for land-locked countries

Providing public land management agencies with modern computer and survey equipment

Providing prime land

Providing land funds

Providing institutional and legal support on land tenure for farmers

Providing guidance on control technology for marine pollution from land-based sources

Providing alternatives to informal land supply

Protecting transport rights of land-locked countries

Protecting right of unrestricted access to land

Protecting public land

Protecting endangered monuments and historic sites

Privatizing common land

Preserving peasant title to land

Preserving land rights of the poor

Preserving land

Preparing detailed land capability inventories as basis for sustainable land management

Planning suburban areas

Organizing land ownership

Opening access to public land

Negotiating conflicting claims to terrestrial territory

Neglecting the land

Monitoring pollution of inland waters

Mitigating tropical land depletion

Mapping land systems

Mapping land fertility

Managing land use

Making restitution of peasant landholdings

Maintaining databases on agricultural land use

Living off the land

Limiting urban encroachment of the countryside

Limiting rights to land

Limiting monopolized land ownership

Limiting availability of land

Liberating land

Labouring on the land

Keeping land ownership records

Involving absentee landlords in land care

Integrating use of land resources

Integrating urban land use and transportation planning

Informing about integrated land resources management

Increasing security of land tenure

Increasing municipalization of land

Increasing land vehicles

Increasing land supply by incentives

Increasing land supply by fiscal means

Increasing effectiveness of land collateral

Increasing available land

Increasing amount of urban land

Increasing amount of cultivable land

Improving transport transit systems for land-locked countries

Improving port facilities for land-locked countries

Improving national capacity to implement land conservation

Improving land use practices to prevent land degradation and erosion

Improving land registration systems

Improving land fertility

Improving land and water management by farmers in arid regions

Improving fish yields in inland waters using environmentally sound management methods

Improving existing commercial sites

Improving empolderment of peat land

Improving data systems on land resources

Improving cultivated land systems

Improving career development programmes for land and water management staff

Improving arrangement of housing with respect to common land

Improving analysis of data on land use

Improving accessibility of land resources

Improving ability to use land for agricultural purposes

Holding land in common

Harmonizing guided land transport

Facilitating public participation in sustainable land management

Expropriating land from indigenous populations

Exposing violation of land rights of a people

Expanding partnerships for managing land resources

Expanding land ownership

Exchanging information on participatory planning of land resources

Evaluating effectiveness of land resource conservation programmes

Establishing land use classifications

Establishing environmentally sound land-based waste disposal alternatives to sea dumping

Ensuring land users implement improved land use measures

Enriching potentially arable land

Encouraging land development

Encouraging environmentally sound land use practices

Enclosing adequate arable land

Enabling land beautification

Employing unused land

Doing without adequate land space

Diversifying land use

Diversifying dry land crops

Distributing land through customary tenure systems

Disseminating land use information

Disrespecting the land

Developing sustainability indicators for land resources

Developing profitable public land use practices

Developing ortho-photography landbases

Developing land believed unprofitable

Developing land

Developing inland traffic

Developing inland fisheries

Developing brown field sites

Determining public land design

Destroying land resources

Destroying land fertility

Delegating land resource management responsibilities to rural organizations

Decreasing land

Declaring moratorium on export of anti-personnel land mines

De-commodifying land

Damaging agricultural land

Cultivating land

Creating image of scarcity

Correcting defective land use planning

Coping with inadequate inland waterway transport facilities

Coordinating land development

Controlling water quality for inland fisheries

Controlling public land use

Controlling growth of farm land

Controlling building development

Conserving vulnerable land

Conserving land resources

Conserving land fertility

Conserving agricultural land

Confiscating property

Conducting environmental site assessment

Condemning traditional elitist land ownership

Compiling information on indigenous land resource conservation

Clearing unused land

Clearing land mines

Claiming inland water resources

Caring for the land

Campaigning for indigenous land rights

Building capacity for land management

Balancing the land bio-dynamically

Balancing exports and imports of land-locked developing countries

Assuring condensed land development

Assisting prospective land users

Assessing state of national land resources

Assessing regional agreements on marine pollution from land-based sources

Assessing hydrobiology and environmental requirements of inland fish species

Assessing forest land utilization

Assessing current land situation

Assessing costs and financing to ensure sustainable land use planning and management

Assessing consequences of different land tenure systems

Applying land use policies to protect environmentally sensitive areas

Applying land customs

Adopting legislation to guide sustainable land development

Addressing problems of forced relocation of peasants onto marginal lands

Acquiring increased farm land

Accepting inferior land

Accelerating rural land production

Accelerating farm land usage

Abstaining from integrated land management

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #15: Life on Land

Metadata

Database

Human values

Type

(C) Constructive values

Subject

Geography » Land type/use

Content quality

Yet to rate

Language

English

1A4N

C1048

DOCID

11310480

D7NID

193257

Editing link

Official link

https://encyclopedia.uia.org/value/land

Last update

Dec 2, 2024