Land
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2017
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Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Ibadan.
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According to Stewart et al. (2015), all human life ultimately depends on land including the soil and water found there. From land, food is grown, on it, protective shelters are raised, and through and across it the freshwater we drink is purified and delivered. Land provides humans with the means to live and from the first steps tread upon it, has been a patient provider of vital resources. Stewart et al. (2015) further expressed that at the start of the 21st century, our lands are no longer able to keep up with the pressures placed on its limited resources. Increasing misuse and demands for its goods are resulting in rapidly intensifying desertification and land degradation globally which is an issue of growing importance for all people and at all scales.
United Nations (2005) stated that the rate at which contemporary cities are growing testing to the rapid urbanization of the world population which has been the widespread conditions for an increase in the demands on land to produce food, energy, water, resources, shelter and livelihoods. Stewart et al. (2015) opined that environmental shifts induced through stressors (e.g. climate change) and dissolution of ecosystem stability are further decreasing the ability of land to respond resiliently to natural or anthropogenic pressures.
Sustainable spatial planning is highly essential in the contemporary to safeguard the diverse functions of land through active management of land resources, acknowledging both the competing forces behind growing conflicts over the use and underlying necessity for prudent management of land and soil as natural resources to secure access to productive land which is critical to the millions of people living in urban and rural areas of the world. According to International Fund for Agricultural Development (2008), productive land reduces vulnerability to hunger and poverty; influences capability to invest in productive activities and in sustainable management of resources; enhances prospects for better livelihoods; and helps develop more equitable relations with rest of the society, thus contributing to justice, peace and sustainable development.
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Bako, A. I., Raheem, W. M., and Abdulyekeen, A. O. (2017). Land. In L. Egunjobi (Eds), Contemporary Concepts in Physical Planning, 3, 581-600. Ibadan, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Ibadan.