Definition: Open land without, or with insignificant, vegetati...

Category: Environment

Non-built-up land the surface of which either is not covered at all by vegetation or scarcely covered by some vegetation, which precludes its inclusion in other categories of the classification, as there are: Bare rocks; Glaciers and perpetual snow; Sand-beaches, dunes, other sandy land; and others n.e.s..
Source:
Joint OECD/Eurostat Questionnaire 2002 on the State of the Environment, section on Land
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