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Finding Common Ground: The urgent need for better land use data

Posted by: Professor Louise Heathwaite, Posted on: 21 January 2021 - Categories: Data, Technology

In this guest blog, Professor Heathwaite discusses how land use location data could help us make more joined-up decisions about land use to avert a collision course with our most valuable asset.

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