Land economy

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Land Economy is a multidisciplinary subject becoming increasingly popular at universities in the United Kingdom. It is the study of law, economics, and the environment in so far as they relate to land usage and development. As such, areas studied include property law, planning law, microeconomics, deforestation, agricultural trends, crop rates, agriculture and the economies of various lands, particularly in Western and Eastern Europe. At present only Cambridge and Aberdeen offer this degree, but the intense competition for places has caused other universities to consider offering the degree.^{[citation needed]} Professional land economists have generally not been given the publicity or recognition seen by those in other professions and there are currently no exclusively land economy firms, although many firms of lawyers or surveyors perform parts of these functions. There have been rumours that any one of several investment banks may be planning to open up professional land economy firms but as yet this is unconfirmed.^{[citation needed]}

Many students of land economy undertake employment in agriculture, working as town planners, surveyors, farmers, farmhands and manufacturers of agricultural equipment such as pesticide or weed killer.