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Land cover and change accounts 2000-2018

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Prod-ID: DAS-108-en
Published 25 Sep 2019
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This interactive data viewer provides an easy and comprehensive access to land cover accounts for Europe (EEA39 and EU28) derived from the CORINE land cover data series. Statistics are calculated for every 6 years of the acquisition period, as well as for the entire period (2000-2018). The viewer facilitates the assessment of land cover consumed or created over a specific period and the reason for the observed change (e.g. urban sprawl or arable land loss), which can be analyzed within user defined spatial units such as administrative regions, biogeographical regions or land cover classes.

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Land accounts describe, in a consistent and systematic way, the amount of land stock and its changes over time. All land covers may change into another category which would end up in numerous combinations too large for a transparent assessment. Therefore, the possible land cover changes are grouped into meaningful categories, the so called Land Cover Flows, such as urban land management (LCF1) or forest creation and management (LCF7). This enables to address drivers of land cover changes.

 

This viewer provides a transparent and comprehensive overview of European land accounts derived from the Copernicus Corine Land Cover dataset (https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/corine-land-cover). The land stock and its changes are observed for the years 2000, 2006, 2012 and 2018 together with the nature of changes, i.e. the land cover consumed or formed between those periods according to the land cover flows. Statistics can be explored for various administrative and bio-geographical units of the EEA39 region.

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News Developing accounting methods for land cover changes The European Environment Agency (EEA) has developed land accounts that allow for assessing changes in land cover types. These changes can have environmental impacts, such as decline in biodiversity, reduced carbon stocks, or weakened capacity for food production and flood regulation.
Article Land and soil in Europe — Ever-sprawling urban concrete? Europe’s landscape is changing. Cities and their infrastructures are expanding into productive agricultural land, cutting the landscape into smaller patches, affecting wildlife and ecosystems. In addition to landscape fragmentation, soil and land face a number of other threats: contamination, erosion, compaction, sealing, degradation and even abandonment. What if we could recycle the land already taken by cities and urban infrastructure instead of taking agricultural land?

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Briefing Land cover accounts — an approach to geospatial environmental accounting Land use and land use change are fundamental for sustainable resource use and the delivery of ecosystem services, including the provision of food, nutrient cycling and climate change mitigation through carbon sequestration. Land resources are part of our shared natural capital and must be well managed to maintain a healthy environment and human well-being (EEA, 2019b). As such, only if land use and its impacts are properly addressed is progress towards sustainable development in Europe possible. Land-use related policies require the development of harmonised datasets, transparent methodologies and easily interpretable statistics. Land accounts fit the bill, describing how land resource stocks change over time. This briefing describes the use of the EEA’s Integrated Data Platform and CORINE Land cover data for transparent, repeatable and efficient land accounting.

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