Assessing and analysing the impact of land take pressures on arable land

Aksoy, Ece; Gregor, Mirko; Schröder, Christoph; Löhnertz, Manuel; Louwagie, Geertrui

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-683-2017

Articles | Volume 8, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-683-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-683-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 3

Research article

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20 Jun 2017

Research article |

| 20 Jun 2017

Assessing and analysing the impact of land take pressures on arable land

Ece Aksoy, Mirko Gregor, Christoph Schröder, Manuel Löhnertz, and Geertrui Louwagie

Data sets

ESDAC data ESDAC http://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/soil-biomass-productivity-maps-grasslands-and-pasture-coplands-and-forest-areas-european

Land accounts for Europe 1990–2000, EEA Technical Report No. 11/2006 EEA https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/land-cover-flows-based-on-corine-land-cover-changes-database-1990-2000-1

Dominant land cover flows 2000–2006 EEA https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/dominant-land-cover-flow-2000-2006

CORINE Land Cover CORINE http://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/corine-land-cover

Short summary

The aim of this study is to relate the potential of land for a particular use in a given region with the actual land use. To this aim, the impact of several land cover flows related to urban development on soils with good, average, and poor production potentials were assessed and mapped. Thus, the amount and quality (potential for agricultural production) of agricultural land lost between the years 2000 and 2006 and the regions with major impact (hot spots) in Europe were identified.