Among the factors of production land is allocated a number of significant features.The main one is that it is a very broad content factor, it includes its own land, used to support economic activity, water resources.In addition, the land as a factor of production may be regarded simply as a kind of geographic location, or available on it fossils.In some cases, underground meant residential or industrial premises.
In addition, the land as a factor of production has characterized a number of other features, here they are:
- it is not a result of labor, and therefore has no value as such;
- acquiring land price only after falls in turnover of the sales, then it becomes someone else's property;
- it has the dual characteristics, be both subject and object of labor;
- the earth acts as a unique and no substitutable factor of production;
- land in contrast to the other factors that are in use lose their value and characteristics, is capable of improving them;
- it is a limited resource;
- the land is not relocatable and has various quality parameters.
Earth as a means of production is characterized by multiple forms of use.The most common form of land use is agricultural activities.At the same time, and then she acts as the subject of labor, and as an instrument of labor, as the man on the ground by the action solves a lot of economic problems.Land use in agriculture most succinctly revealed through the concept of productivity and fertility.
As already stated, the land as a factor of production has a property such as fertility.From its parameters, in fact, it depends on the availability and value of the land.
land in other sectors also occupies a unique place among the means of production.Here it special features are shown in the following:
- it is a product of nature;
- land gives effect only in conjunction with other resources of natural and non-natural origin;
- land - an indispensable tool, a limited quantity and little exposure to physical and moral depreciation;
- land - saving natural basis of life on the planet.
Earth as a factor of production is organically linked to human activities such as construction, land reclamation, water supply and drainage, construction of transport infrastructure, planting of forests and others.In this regard, it acquires and social importance, in fact, she is transformed into a social object.
For example, this manifests itself most visibly in the selection of the human environment, which always strive to more favorable conditions.It has always been the basis of material well-being, but because it is definitely influenced areas such as politics, economy, society.The possession of land in the Middle Ages was the main factor of social differentiation of society and the foundation of its identity.
That is why today the Environment in general and land in particular is given great importance.Land has become an important subject of legal regulation, up to the constitutional level.In Russia, as in other countries, a special procedure for allocation of land for different types of activities.According to him, the production of excavation can be carried out only after obtaining special permission.
a documentary embodiment of such a permit is a warrant for the earthworks.This document, as a rule, determines the types of permitted works, their timing and methods of production.This document examines in detail which manufacturing operations will be carried out when the excavation works, what goals this activity as environmental protection measures will be provided after the completion of the work.
