I would like to choose an appropriate term for a land-use which attracts non-local people from the surrounding regions. in fact, a land-use which doesn't work only in local scale, but also it has a regional-scale function.
thanks in advance.
I can't give an exact word but the term should have the prefix inter in it.
I can't give an exact word but the term should have the prefix inter in it.
Maybe "inter-regional land use" (as suggested by D. Agyemang above) or "non-local land use" in contrast to "local land use". The ISO standard for land administration, the Land Administration Domain Model (LADM, ISO 19152:2012) only use land use as a general term and does not specify regional / local land use. The standard mentions local, regional and national levels, but does not provide any definition of them. They are common terms and may be used differently around the world. It is therefore difficult to define them in an international standard. Since there also not seem not to be an established terminology (native English speakers may correct me on that), I think you can choose a term and use it in your article / paper yourself, as long as you provide a definition / explanation of it in e.g. a footnote. You should also define what you mean with "region", for example an administrative/political or geographical entity, depending on the content of your publication.
The labelling of land-use/ land-cover categories is indeed, as Jesper implied, an inherently messy business! I suspect the ‘higher-order’ land uses you are referring to might in most cases be associated with urban (or metropolitan) phenomena. Related to this, there is of course a whole literature in economic geography, relying on a vocabulary of regional specialization, urban hierarchy or urban functions.
There are merits in the ‘russian doll’ understanding of land-use you seem to be pursuing, but limitations as well. You might be interested in these two papers dealing with (long-distance) land-use displacement. The Seto et al. paper introduces the idea of teleconnections. Meyfroidt et al. do a pretty fair job of summarizing the current debates in the field.
Regards!
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thank you very much, indeed. based on your valuable comments i think the "regional/non-local land use" term besides a definition are appropriate for my purpose. the attached articles are very useful, i really appreciate that.
The terms that come to my mind are centralisation/decentralisation. The process by which people drift to a city or a large regional town in search of better economic opportunities can be called centralisation (or urban drift). The process by which governments actively encourage people to settle in rural and more remote centres is called decentralisation. There was a large literature on these themes in the 1970s and 1980s, much of it before the digitisation era.
Incentives by governments to encourage decentralisation became unfashionable in the 1980s and 1990s as the neoliberal policy regime came to dominate Western policy. Neoliberal theory would hold that governments shouldn't interfere in the free choice of people to move where they want.
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