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Net land take by land cover and country, 2012-2018, EEA-38 (in % of the total FUA surface in the country)
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Notes:
- The chart shows the net land take in Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) of each country in the EU-38 region disaggregated by major land cover categories. The FUAs are composed of cities and commuting zones, where cities with over 100.000 inhabitants are considered. Net land take is the mathematical difference of land take and land recultivation. Land take is the process of converting non artificial surfaces to artificial surfaces whereas land recultivation is the inverse process.
- *: Kosovo (under UNSC Resolution 1244/99).
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- Copernicus Land Monitoring Service - Urban Atlas, European Environment Agency (EEA)
- Albania
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Kosovo (UNSCR 1244/99)
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Türkiye
2012-2018
Methodology:
Land take is calculated from the Urban Atlas 2012 and 2018 datasets of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service. Land take is defined in km2 summed of each grid cell where between 2012 and 2018 non-artificial urban areas were converted to artificial urban areas. This can happen for example when grasslands or croplands are converted to city parks, parking places, commercial units, etc. Land recultivation is the inverse process, also expressed in km2 area. Land take minus recultivation equals the net land take. The km2 net land take is then expressed in % of the 2012 total FUA area in each country thereby indicating the increase of artificial surfaces compared to the surface of urban areas.