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Land provides the base upon which social, cultural and economic activities are undertaken and as such is of significant importance in environmental monitoring. Social, cultural and economic activities have to be planned and managed in such a way that the sustainable use of land resources is enhanced.

The Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.

—Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948)

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    http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/education/pages/modules/land/salinity_02.html.

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    http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/education/pages/modules/land/salinity_02.html.

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    see http://www.ctfsolutions.com.au/. Accessed on 8-09-2009.

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  1. Spatial Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia

    Joseph Awange

  2. Department of Geospatial and Space Technology, University of Nairobi , Nairobi, Kenya

    John Kiema

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Awange, J., Kiema, J. (2019). Land Management. In: Environmental Geoinformatics. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03017-9_28

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