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This section of the CD-ROM provides various data describing the use of land resources in Russia, of which agriculture and forestry are most widely practiced. Land endowment is considered from two perspectives: the first falls under traditional land-use analysis and describes land exploitation to produce commodities or benefits for consumption or sale (this information is documented in statistical terms and is a socioeconomic driver of land resources development); the second identifies land and soil degradation and views the results of land use from an environmental perspective. Environmental aspects are currently treated in the traditional socioeconomic cost-benefit analysis, which is insufficient. There is a great potential for better localization of land use practices in Russia, and the data in this land endowment section could help to put this into practice.
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