Permanent settlement area within the Alpine Convention area

• Austria
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Liechtenstein
• Slovenia
• Switzerland

• Data for the delination of municipalities: EuroGeographics (2005): Seamless Administrative Boundaries of Europe (SABE2004 v1.0).
• Based on Corine Landcover data 2000 the available settlement area is processed from the area for settlements from European Environment Agency (2005): Corine land cover 2000 (CLC2000) 100 m.

Data for intensively used agricultural areas are derived from national statistics as:

• AT Statistik Austria (1999): Agrarstrukturerhebung.
• CH Bundesamt für Statistik (1992-1997): Arealstatistik.
• DE Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung (2001): Allgemeine Agrarstrukturerhebung.
• FR Agreste (2000): Recensement agricole; special analysis.
• IT ISTAT (2000): Censimento generale dell'agricoltura.
• LI Amt für Volkswirtschaft (2000): Landwirtschaftliche Betriebszählung.
• SI Statistični urad Republike Slovenije (2000): Popis kmetijstva.