every region has different and competing values

Every parcel, every place, every region has different values based on their ecology.

Worth is a measure of the value or practical importance in how a terrain, parcel or place is used, protected, or developed.

That is often dependent on topography, geography, geology and residential patterns.

1) Although value is at one level a personal decision for you to make, there are two other considerations. (personal + social + ecological)

2) Value is also a social decision, you need to see your choice of value in relation to other people's choices and they need to understand the criteria you use to assign value to some place, feature, or region.

3) Third, there is an ecological way of seeing value in different places, despite our personal biases and social pressure to conform to prevailing "commercial" values.

Land has competing values inherent in it's composition of natural and cultural objects, setting and neighboring areas.

More on value in land

Go to this page and you will see that all landscape has recognizable value because it possesses certain characteristics,

Here is a page that explains the relation of human labor to natural resources and how both contribute to our wealth,

What should be preserved? (see this important information at the web site:about protection)

There is a discussion of conservation, with important dates and how problems with conservation based solely on economics create problems for environmental protection.

What is the capacity of land to absorb impacts?

How do carrying capacity and assimilative capacity differ?

Markets.

Property rights.

Demographical information

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