Giáo trình Anh Văn chuyên ngành - Quản lý đất đai và bất động sản

How people or nations use their land depends on complex, interrelated factors

which include the characteristics of the land itself, economic factors, social, legal, and

political constraints, and the needs and objectives of the land user. In order to make

rational decisions it is necessary to collect the right information about the physical, social,

and economic aspects of the land area in question; and assess the land's relative suitability

for different uses in the light of the needs and objectives of the land user and the

community. This process is known technically as land suitability evaluation, or simply as

2land evaluation, and the basic methodology was set out in the 1976 FAO (Food and

Agriculture Organization) publication - Framework For Land evaluation