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ESPON seminar on 17-18 May 2005 Luxembourg
EEA’s contribution to spatial assessments:
CORINE land cover 2000 & Land Accounts
Stefan Kleeschulte, Project leader, EEA/ETC Terrestrial Environment
Jean-Louis WeberProject manager, Environmental Accounting/ Spatial Assessment, EEA
ESPON seminar on 17-18 May 2005 Luxembourg
Corine land cover 2000 data are available…
ESPON seminar on 17-18 May 2005 Luxembourg
… they can be downloaded now from the EEA website
http://dataservice.eea.eu.int/dataservice/available2.asp?type=findkeyword&theme=clc2000
ESPON seminar on 17-18 May 2005 Luxembourg
EEA is developing land accounts from CLC
By grid-cells, regions, river basins► Statistical analysis► Cartographic analysis
Land Accounts can be combined with other data for integrated spatial assessments
ESPON seminar on 17-18 May 2005 Luxembourg
Natura 2000 sites
Legend
Total urban sprawl
F2F3_N4.SUMOFAREAH
0 - 2%
2% - 5%
5% - 10%
more than 10%
Urban morphological zones, pop. > 50000
High natural potential: 100
Low natural potential: 0
Landscape Natural Potential
Legend
Ecological corridors are fragmented by roads, railways, dams, and urban sprawl, which partition Natura2000 sites from other sites and ecosystems. In addition to losses of habitats, species trend to be isolated and therefore endangered.
Effect of artificialisation of land cover on nature protection
Source: EEA/Corine land cover 1990-2000/ Land Accounts ProjectProvisional results
Portugal-Algarve
Main Flows of Consumption (-) and Formation (+) of dry semi-natural land in ha/year
0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500
Creation of semi-natural dry landcover
Withdrawal of farming withoutwoodland creation
Forest creation, afforestation overdry semi-natural land (-)
Conversion of semi-natural landcover to agriculture (-)
Consumption of dry semi-naturalland cover by urban sprawl (-)
Algarve
Main Flows of Consumption (-) and Formation (+) of dry semi-natural land in ha/year
0 200 400 600 800 1000
Creation of semi-natural dry landcover
Withdrawal of farming withoutwoodland creation
Forest creation, afforestation overdry semi-natural land (-)
Conversion of semi-natural landcover to agriculture (-)
Consumption of dry semi-naturalland cover by urban sprawl (-)
C. de Madrid
Comunidad de Madrid
ESPON seminar on 17-18 May 2005 Luxembourg
Provisional land accounts data can be downloaded from
http://eea.eionet.eu.int/Public/irc/eionet-circle/leac/library