2.7: Land Use
To inform policy-makers, practitioners and the public on how the growing intensity of space and land‑based resource use is
leading to conflicts and potential irreversible changes via an analytical platform for spatial analysis, targeted land use
modelling, integration of socio-economic statistics and high resolution land information and planning services to examine
the processes of urbanisation and land use.
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Analysis - The new EU Lisbon Treaty underlines the fact that a policy tool for coordination, coherence and synergies of sectoral
policies is indispensable for the sustainable spatial development and multi-level governance system of the European continent.
The first Action Programme for the implementation of the EU Territorial Agenda seeks in particular to develop a robust platform
of knowledge and assessments of the state, perspectives, trends and policy impacts over the diverse European territories.
Over the past decade the Agency has analysed conflicts over the use of space and land-based resources in Europe and observed
that they will be exacerbated by urbanisation, transport growth, shifts in agricultural priorities, new forms of tourism,
evolving societal aspirations around mobility and housing, demography and the continuous changes to the territorial landscape
from climate change putting at risk ecological and social resilience. Action - We will achieve our objective by: • integrating
all relevant geo-spatial data sets and information at the European level via SEIS, Inspire and the Land Use Data Centre, including
an operational data base on noise maps and data as part of ReportNet implementation for Environmental Noise Directive; • working
with ESPON2013 to define and test a new set of territorial indicators to support spatial planning and understanding of different
development perspectives; • providing assessments of European territorial developments using advanced spatial analytical techniques,
past trends, now casting, forward looking assessments, policy effectiveness analysis including the economics of different
paths, in partnership especially with DG Regio, JRC and Eurostat; • working with Eurostat, the UN and national statistical
offices to ensure that EEA-led land, water and ecosystem accounts will become a global standard within the UN-Environmental
Accounting framework; • fully exploiting the completed 2006 Corine land cover inventory and related data bases, in particular
the high-resolution soil sealing information; • supporting the development of the GMES Land services and Global Observing
Systems; and • undertaking selected regional and thematic assessments (e.g. on urban, mountain and rural areas, tourism, transport
and noise mapping, impacts of soil erosion, land pricing and taxes) and provide inputs to SOER 2010 and Eureca 2012.
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