human settlement
6.The main goal of this paper is tries to use the new perspective "the Basic Human Settlement Unit" , combined with some practical projects, to study the character and internal law of human settlement in an open way, and hope to bring some new ideas and suggestions to the present construction of China human settlement.
7.In October 2001, Hangzhou was selected for the Habitant Scroll of Honour Award by United Nations center for Human Settlement.
8.Deforestation (disafforestation) The permanent removal of forests, especially by means of logging for commercial timber and clearing for agriculture and human settlement.
9.The layout and disposition of the small towns and the shaping of the surrounding landscape, overcoming the disadvantages of a steep, uneven terrain, encapsulate the continuous history of human settlement in this region over the past millennium.
10.The article introduces some new considerations about modern landscape, city green land system, biological diversity, tourism and recreation etc. and prospects the development of human habitation and settlement environment in ecological era,aged? society, informational age which were summed up at the conference of IFPRA of Asia/Pacific area in 1999.

