Information about enclosures in industrial age​

The Enclosure Movement was a push in the 18th and 19th centuries to take land that had formerly been owned in common by all members of a village, or at least available to the public for grazing animals and growing food, and change it to privately owned land, usually with walls, fences or hedges around it.

the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.

equal area projections

equal-area projection. a projection in which regions on the earth's surface that are of equal area are represented as equal.