what is termed as land use? how is it different in rural and urban areas?
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Land use involves the management and modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as settlements and semi-natural habitats such as arable fields, pastures, and managed woods. Land use by humans has a long history, first emerging more than 10,000 years ago.
It also has been defined as "the total of arrangements, activities, and inputs that people undertake in a certain land cover type."
The difference between rural and urban areas is :
Urban areas can include town and cities while rural areas include villages and hamlets. While rural areas may develop randomly on the basis of natural vegetation and fauna available in a region, urban settlements are proper, planned settlements built up according to a process called urbanization.
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