Integrated GMES Project on Landcover and Vegetation

Integrated GMES Project on Landcover and Vegetation

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Urban land use and land planning:

The local scale perspective -geoland OSP portfolio

Christian Hoffmann – GeoVille – Copenhagen – 16.03.2005

Co-funded by the European Commission within the GMES initiative in FP-6

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Observatory Spatial PlanningChristian Hoffmann

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Political assessment

Response

Environmental impact analysis

Data: EO, census, soil, cadastre, …

Methods: Models, GIS analyses, (land accounting?-preliminary results), …

Information: Land cover / land use, population distribution, …

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Which quality of life?

Which impact of land use on ecosystems?

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Comparing CLC2000 and CLC+

Observatory Spatial PlanningChristian Hoffmann

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CLC / CLC+ legend

Urban fabric

Industrial, commercial and transport units

Mine, dump & construction sites

Artificial vegetated areas

Agricultural areas

Forests & semi-natural areas

Wetlands

Water bodies

Artificial surfaces (both)

Artificial surfaces (only CLC+)

Artificial surfaces (only CLC)

Non-artificial surfaces (both)

Degree of agreement: 85% for artificial areas

Generalization

CLC 1 : 100.000 CLC+ 1 : 25.000

Artificial surfaces CLC and CLC+

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Getting the picture: Potential conflicts in land use

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Land cover accounts Land consumption for urban expansion

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FormationFormation

Consumption

Flows

Urban residential sprawl

Accounting units: 1 x 1 km grid cells

CLC+ map of Vorarlberg (Austria)

Land cover changes 1990-2000

Sprawl of economic sites

Sustainability of land

consumption?

Net change of land cover 1990-2000

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Linking land cover accounts to driving forces

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Socio–economic change Household formation & single family detached housing

Infrastructure Accessibility by transport

network

Land price patterns

Natural assetsHigh quality soils for agriculture

Intensity and type of land useLand cover accounts / land use statistics

Economic changee.g. technology

Land consumption

Residential function

Industrial / commercial function

Integration of data sources? (e.g. spatial disaggregation)

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Accounting for land consumption

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1.1 Urban fabric

Industrial / commercial

areas

Residential areas

1.2 Industrial, commercial & transport units

Housing statistics

Land consumption related to

areas with residential function

Land consumption related to

areas with industrial / commercial function

Development of built-up area 1990-2000: + 3,9 %

Development of population 1991-2001: + 5,7 %

Land consumption per capita(related to total built-up area): - 1,6 %

Demographic data

CLC+CLC+ Land use accounts

Other information

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Accounting for land consumption

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related to total built-up area related to residential use related toindustrial/commercial use

1991

2001

- 1,6 % - 10,4 %+ 0,7 %

Increase of land consumption per capitafor residential function

Decrease of land consumption per capita for industrial / commercial function

Sustainability of

land consumption?

in %

Which Which structural structural change?change?

Which impact Which impact of land use on of land use on ecosystems?ecosystems?

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Observatory Spatial PlanningChristian Hoffmann

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Political assessment

Response

Environmental impact analysis

Data: EO, census, soil, cadastre, …

Method: Land accounting?

Information: Land cover / land use, population distribution, …

Targeted accounts

Core accounts

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Which structural change?

Which impact of land use on ecosystems?

Integrated GMES Project on Landcover and Vegetation

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Thank you for your attention!

Co-funded by the European Commission within the GMES initiative in FP-6

www.gmes-geoland.info

Contact: geoland coordinators:

GeoVille GmbH

Christian Hoffmann

+43–(0)512–562021-0

hoffmann@geoville.com

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