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Land accounts data viewer 1990, 2000, 2006: The key focus of land cover accounts is the understanding of the way in which the stocks of different land covers change over time. This viewer allows visualising and downloading land cover statistics derived from land accounts applied methodology.
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Land take (CSI 014) - Assessment published Feb 2011: Land take by the expansion of residential areas and construction sites is the main cause of the increase in the coverage of urban land at the European level. Agricultural zones and, to a lesser extent, forests and semi-natural and natural areas, are disappearing in favour of the development of artificial surfaces. This affects biodiversity since it decreases habitats, the living space of a number of species, and fragments the landscapes that support and connect them. The annual land take in 36 European countries was 111 788 ha/year in 2000-2006. In 21 countries covered by both periods (1990-2000 and 2000-2006) the annual land take increased by 9 % in the later period. The composition of land taken areas changed, too. More arable land and permanent crops, forests, grasslands and open spaces and less pastures and mosaic farmland were taken by artificial development then in 1990-2000.
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Mean annual urban land take 2000-2006 per country as a percentage of 2000 artificial land: Land cover changes in Liechtenstein remained below the detection level of Corine Land Cover change methodology. In some large countries, dates of satellite images for regions may differ by several years
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Mean annual urban land take as a percentage of total urban land take 2000-2006: Land cover changes in Liechtenstein remained below the detection level of Corine Land Cover change methodology. In some large countries, dates of satellite images for regions may differ by several years
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Relative contribution of land-cover categories to uptake by urban and other artificial land development: Origin of land uptake as % of total uptake
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CORILIS - CORINE Lissage: CORILIS, from CORIne and LISsage (smoothing in French), is a methodology developed for land cover data generalization and analysis
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Dominant land cover types 1990: Located in Data and maps › Maps and graphs
Dominant landscape types of Europe, based on Corine land cover 2000: -
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Green potential background: CORILIS layers can be grouped by simple addition
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Land cover flows based on Corine land cover changes database (1990-2000): Corine land cover changes are classified into land cover flows based on Land cover accounts (LEAC) methodology and generalised using the 1 Km reference grid size
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