Key Agricultural and Urban Planning Terms Explained
Key Agricultural and Urban Planning Terms
Metropolitan Area: An urban area of a city that includes the main agglomeration and surrounding suburban areas.
Suburban Areas: Areas mainly situated with large industries and spacious areas.
Preferential Agreements: Agreements made between the EU and third countries.
Aquaculture: The culture technique of aquatic plants and animals.
Extensive Agriculture: Large-scale farming with reduced fallow periods, crop rotation, and low yields per hectare.
Intensive Agriculture: Agriculture that uses plenty of fertilizer and irrigation, dispensing with fallow land.
Jurisdictional Waters: Waters that border a state and are subject to its jurisdiction.
Customs Tariff: Taxes imposed on imported products crossing state borders.
Spanish High-Speed Train (AVE):
Customs: Administration responsible for collecting fees on imported or exported goods.
Agriculture: Agro-livestock, agricultural, and livestock activities.
Partnership: An arrangement in which economic compensation comes from the owner’s share of the profits.
Lease Rights: The right to use and profit from goods in exchange for economic compensation.
Fallow Land: Land left uncultivated for a period to regain its natural fertility.
Trade Balance: A comparison of the value of exports and imports. A positive balance indicates more exports.
Payments: Economic transactions between a country and other countries within a year.
Own Goods: Rural properties leased by municipalities to individuals.
Bocage (Closed Areas): Closed fields and irregular parcels, often associated with dispersed populations.
Cabotage: Navigation close to the coast.
Fishing Zone: A place where fishing boats spread their nets due to the abundance of fish.
Real Cañada: A quality road for the transit of transhumant livestock between summer and winter grazing areas.
Parcel Concentration: The consolidation of different parcels of land into a single unit.
Industrial Agglomeration: A grouping of industries of the same or different types.
Wholesalers: Those who buy products directly to resell them to major retailers in large quantities.
Retailers: Those who sell products directly to consumers in small quantities.
Regional Division: Autonomous communities within a state’s administrative structure.
Region: A division of territory comprising several populations.
City: A complex economic, demographic, and sociological entity formed by a concentration of people engaged in non-agricultural activities.
Satellite City: A small to medium-sized city near a larger city, upon which it functionally depends.
Conurbation: The parallel growth of two or more cities that merge into one urban agglomeration.
Technical Crops Grown Under Plastic: Crops grown under plastic covers with small holes to retain moisture and prevent evaporation.
Extensive Crop: A crop realized on large surfaces with lower average and low yields.
Intensive Crop: A crop realized on a small surface with a large input of resources, resulting in medium to high performance.
Forced Crops: Crops grown outside of their natural environment.
Decree of New Plant: A set of decrees that changed the territorial organizations of Hispanic kingdoms.
Dehesa: An agrarian system using large farms with mixed use, occupying poor-quality soils.
Site: The specific topographic location where a city has its origin.
Urban Expansion: The growth of a city’s area.
Erial: Earth, fallow land, or uncultivated field.
Agricultural Exploitation: A set of movements where there is a combination of agricultural production units under the direction of one employer.
Development Axes: The broadcast industry through communication axes.
Urban Functions: Activities developed in a city.
EAGGF (European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund):
Fishing Fleet: A collection of boats dedicated to fishing.
Fund for Audiovisual Compensation: One of the resources of the autonomous communities, whose purpose is to correct economic imbalances between areas.