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Human use and alteration of land has profound effects on the environment, both locally where it takes place, and at the planetary scale via climate change and other mechanisms. 

This building block explains what is meant by land use and land use change, both direct and indirect.

Last update: 06 February, 2018

https://www.doi.org/10.56661/4af265b4
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Acknowledgements
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Amazon land use by CIAT via Flickr
Samuel Lee-Gammage
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