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Ecological Footprint
The total amount of natural resources used and their impact on the natural environment
Urban Heat Island
A mass of warm air in cities, generated by urban building materials and human activities, that sits over a city
Urban Footprint
The spatial extent of an urban area’s impacts on the natural environment
Urban Risk Divide
The idea that disasters and disaster risk become urban phenomena as the world’s population becomes increasingly concentrated in large cities
Brownfields
Properties whose use or development may be complicated by the potential presence of hazardous substances or pollutants
Brownfield Remediation
The process of removing or sealing off contaminants so that a site may be used again without any health concerns
Phytoremediation
The removal of contaminants with plant species that react with or degrade contaminants or draw up contaminants from the soil into shoots and leaves
Farmland Protection Policy Act (FPPA)
U.S. law that grants municipalities oversight over federally funded development projects on farmland
Scattered Development
Subdivisions or developments that do not border on existing settlements and that remove agricultural land from production
