Losses of agricultural areas to urbanisation

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Created : Dec 08, 2010 Published : Jan 03, 2011 Last modified : Nov 29, 2012 11:36 AM

Graph showing estimated loss of agricultural land in 20 EU countries due to urbanization between 1990 and 2000 based on an analysis of CORINE Land Cover Data

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08 Dec 2010

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1990, 2000

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Area of agricultural land from CORINE 1990 was assessed using GIS. Comparison made against CORINE 2000 to locate areas which were agricultural in 1990 but artificial surfaces in 2000.

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Hectare

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