Land consumption
Land consumption as part of human resource consumption is the conversion of land with healthy soil and intact habitats into areas for industrial agriculture, traffic (road building) and especially urban human settlements. More formally, the European Environment Agency (EEA) has identified three land consuming activities: the expansion of built-up area which can be directly measured; the absolute extent of land that is subject to exploitation by agriculture, forestry or other economic activities; and the over-intensive exploitation of land that is used for agriculture and forestry.