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Land use planning ensures the use of land resources in an organized fashion so that the needs of the present and future generations can be best addressed. Land use planning has as its basic purpose to ...

Mongabay is publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese. In addition to regulating land tenure, ...

The update of an almost four-decade-old land use plan might sound more like a bureaucratic eye roll than the rewriting of history, but those who underestimate the influence of such a document over one ...