The phrase "alter land" is not a standard expression in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts discussing changes to land use, land management, or land ownership, but it is not commonly recognized.
Example: "The new policy aims to alter land use in urban areas to promote sustainability."
Alternatives: "change land" or "modify land".
Friedberg is convinced that climate change has the potential to alter land values dramatically, and soon.
And it will also provide insight into ways to alter land management practices to minimize the amount of CO2 released from soil.
In contrast, changes to agricultural ES were found to be primarily due to shifts in economic conditions that alter land use and land management.
The local media have reported that Hong Kong's new chief executive, who will take office in July, may alter land policy to loosen the grip of major developers, which could drive prices down.
When woody species increase in abundance and transform grasslands and savannas into shrublands and woodlands, the potential to alter land surface atmosphere interactions and carbon and nitrogen sequestration and cycling at regional and global scales may be significant.
As especially observed during the 2004 Alaska fire season, huge wildfires drastically alter land cover leading to a change in the dynamic (roughness length), radiative (albedo, emissivity), vegetative (vegetation type and fraction, stomatal resistance), thermal (soil heating, thawing of permafrost), and hydrological (water loss due to the fire) surface characteristics.
Other types of disturbance will remove carbon from the landscape and also alter land-cover fractions.
These climate change impacts are in part due to how we have altered land use.
Although it looked primeval, it was altered land: this was where the river had flowed, uninterrupted, for thousands of years.
The first Statute of Westminster (1275) made jury trial compulsory in criminal cases and altered land law.
It is also the pump-primer for altering land use, the enabler of economic evolution and the catalyst for social landscape shifts.
