Publications

Results and lessons from implementing the Water Assets Accounts in the EEA area

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:07:29 +0200

These are the first EU-level water accounts that display water balances at monthly and sub-basin levels. EEA developed these accounts in the hope that the many data gaps and methodological imperfections will be ironed out in the future.

Green infrastructure and territorial cohesion

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:00:00 +0100

The concept of green infrastructure and its integration into policies using monitoring systems

Europe's forests at a glance — a breath of fresh air in a changing climate

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:21:44 +0200

Forests do not only provide us food, fibre and medicine, they regulate our climate and improve our quality of life. Human activities and climate change exert increasing pressure on our forest resources and the services they provide. With increasing demand on forests services on the one side, and uncertainty and risks linked to climate change on the other, we need to ensure that forests can continue fulfilling their multifunctional role.

Landscape fragmentation in Europe

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:39:39 +0200

Joint EEA-FOEN report

Mapping the impacts of natural hazards and technological accidents in Europe

Adobe InDesign CS4 (6.0) — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:21:12 +0100

The report assesses the occurrence and impacts of disasters and the underlying hazards such as storms, extreme temperature events, forest fires, water scarcity and droughts, floods, snow avalanches, landslides, earthquakes, volcanoes and technological accidents in Europe for the period 1998-2009.

Land use — SOER 2010 thematic assessment

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Land use shapes our environment in positive and negative ways. Productive land is a critical resource for food and biomass production and land use strongly influences soil erosion and soil functions such as carbon storage. Land management largely determines the beauty of Europe's landscapes. It is important therefore to monitor land cover and land-use change through tools such as Corine land cover. Data on land-cover change in Europe from 2000–2006 show that growth in built-up areas and forest land leads to a continued loss of agricultural land. In turn, global economic and environmental change will increasingly influence the way Europeans use land (e.g. as communities work to mitigate and adapt to climate change). Policy responses are needed to help resolve conflicting land-use demands and to guide land-use intensity to support environmental land management.

Europe's ecological backbone: recognising the true value of our mountains

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:00:00 +0200

Europe's mountain areas have social, economic and environmental capital of significance for the entire continent. This importance has been recognised since the late 19th century through national legislation; since the 1970s through regional structures for cooperation; and since the 1990s through regional legal instruments for the Alps and Carpathians. The European Union (EU) first recognised the specific characteristics of mountain areas in 1975 through the designation of Less Favoured Areas (LFAs). During the last decade, EU cohesion policy and the Treaty of Lisbon have both focused specifically on mountains.

10 messages for 2010 — Mountain ecosystems

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:00:00 +0200

European mountain regions provide essential ecosystem services for lowlands and host a great diversity of habitats and species, many adapted to specific extreme climatic conditions. Mountain ecosystems are fragile and vulnerable, and face severe threats from land abandonment, intensifying agriculture, impacts of infrastructure development, unsustainable exploitation and climate change.

10 messages for 2010 - Agricultural ecosystems

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:00:00 +0200

Within the framework of the CAP, the last 50 years have seen increasing attention to biodiversity, but without clear benefits so far. With agriculture covering about half of EU land area, Europe's biodiversity is linked inextricably to agricultural practices, creating valuable agro-ecosystems across the whole of Europe.

Land in Europe: prices, taxes and use patterns

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:39:31 +0200

Developments in land‑use patterns across Europe are generating considerable concern, particularly in relation to achievement of environmental goals. Land‑use trends — such as urban sprawl and land abandonment — are jeopardising the future for sustainable land use. Moreover, these trends endanger the achievement of European environmental goals in areas such as biodiversity protection and water management and also hinder the effectiveness of instruments in these areas, including the Natura 2000 network and the Water Framework Directive.

10 messages for 2010 - Forest ecosystems

Adobe InDesign CS4 (6.0) — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0200

Short assessment of the status of the European forest ecosystems

EEA Briefing 2/2008 - Ecosystem services - accounting for what matters

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 +0200

Climate for a transport change. TERM 2007: indicators tracking transport and environment in the European Union

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:50:00 +0100

CLC2006 technical guidelines

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:00:00 +0100

This technical report provides guidelines for the update of Corine land cover data for the reference year 2006.

Sustainable consumption and production in South East Europe and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia - Joint UNEP-EEA report on the opportunities and lessons learned

EEA (European Environment Agency) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:00:00 +0000