IEA Seminar on Globalization and Land Use in India

Scientific Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - Region: South Asia, , course: MaharaniLakshmi Ammanni Centre for Social Science Research , language: English, abstract: Land is an essential resource for economic development. But it is also

vital for the survival of humanity and planet earth itself. Natural

balance with the environment of earth gets disturbed. Nothing will

happen to the universe. (Bodies like earth emerge and get destroyed,

time and on in the universe.) Economic theory has indicated the need

for discretion in the use of land right from Adam Smith by projecting

the law of diminishing returns. The greater the economic

opportunities, greater has been the use of land without considering

the scarcity of land and its balance with other elements of nature.

Globalization ushered in after 1999 has brought a plethora of

economic opportunities in the form of investment, trade and

employment opportunities enhancing income all over the world

having multiplier effect further on. It is of pertinent value to know

how globalization affects land use. The value addition out of

contemplating and discussing the classification cf land use, change in

proportion of land used for various purposes is critical at present as it is

affecting sustainable development. It is triggering skepticism about the

goodness cf globalization. It is that Globalization, which is hailed in

Economics as the harbinger of economic paradise on earth.

The value addition out of contemplating and discussing the

classification of land use, change in proportion of land used

for various purposes is critical at present as it is affecting

sustainable development. [...]