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In the conditions of the Republic of Belarus there was examined transformation of approaches to the estimation of the role and place of land resources in social-economic development of society. There was marked the increased understanding of land use planning problems in the context of increasing its intensity and important problem of stable development of rural areas in modern world. There were established the problems of increasing ecological-economic efficiency of land use. It was also established that efficient land relations should provide a balance between preserving natural resources potential, including land, and progressive social-economic development of society. It was shown that the economic conception has considerably transformed the views on the land as the most important natural factor of development of society. Progress of views on land resources was transforming from recognition them as almost single source of national wealth which needs to be operated intensively, up to their multilateral consideration not only as a source of development of such key branch as agriculture but also as the most important object of steady environmental management.
