ESPON 2013 Programme – Open Seminar“European Territorial Evidence for EU Cohesion Policy and Programming”

13-14 June 2012 - Aalborg, Denmark

Session 2 - Workshop 7Environmental Resources, Climate Change and Risk Prevention

ESPON EU-LUPAEuropean Land use Patterns

Policy responses, are needed in order to resolve potential conflicts in land use demand and also guiding land use intensity towards sustainable development.

Given the complexity of process that drives land uses and land uses changes, a complete understanding requires consistent framework for integration of scales and themes.

Challenges

EU-LUPA approach assesses land use patterns and dynamics at regional level in the EU with a multi-sector perspective addressing major territorial challenges and political priorities.

This project is about combining and aggregating land cover, land use and administrative data into meaningful typologies as potential input for policy making at European, national and regional level.

Project approach

Project approach

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Corine Land CoverPrevailing characteristics

Socio-economic data

Quantity

Intensity

Typology of changes

Corine Land Cover changes

Hot spots

Land Use Functions

ChallengesOpportunitiesPerformance

Corine Land Cover

expert judgement

baseline

Dominant processes

expert judgementaggregation

How much

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How much has changed (1990-2006)?

Land use change: Hot spots

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1990-20062000-2006

Typologies of change

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Land Use Functions

• Changes analysis based on CLC could be broaden to better understand land use dynamics in EU27

• To assess the impacts of land use change in a comprehensive way: multi-criteria analysis of indicators

• The Land Use Functions provide a way to enhance the understanding of:– Multi-functionality – Sustainability: integration of the economic, social and

environmental dimension

The LUFs method: aggregation scheme

Basic aggregation scheme, after Paracchini et al. (2008). The symbols represent individual indicators contributing to more than one LUF

LUF6: Biotic resources

Sustainability

EnvironmentEconomySociety

LUF5: Abiotic resources

LUF4:Housing Infrastructure

LUF3: Food & bio-energy

LUF2: Leisure & recreation

LUF1: Work

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1817

1512

87

21

25

1512

119

72

25

6

41

21

24 27

1813

75

21 26

2019

1716

125

31

21

2019

1716

123

21

0.333 0.333 0.333

0.166 0.166 0.166 0.166 0.166 0.166

Indicator1

LUF1 – Provision of work

LUF3 – Provision of food and bioenergy

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Eu-lupa could be used as basis for building territorial evidence relevant for the Common Strategic Framework, providing inputs to:

– the thematic objectives mentioned in the Common Strategic Framework, and;

– also as an input for the Partnership Contracts.

contribution to the Common Strategic Framework

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Ob5. Promoting climate change adaptation

Potential links between land use patterns and climate-vulnerability if combining EU-LUPA with ESPON-CLIMATE or other vulnerability assessments:– Artificialisation and sprawl intensification patters in regions with

foreseen urban climate risks could increase their vulnerability.– Forest and agriculture land use changes (extensification or

intensification) in regions with foreseen changes in agricultural productivity or ecological niche due to climate should explore the potentials or define how to reduce vulnerability (soil degradation, hydrological cycle regulation, economic activities).

contribution to the thematic objectives

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Ob5. Promoting climate change adaptation

Ob6. Protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency

EU-LUPA could help identifying regional challenges and related objectives:

• water supply, waste-water, waste management, reduce transport related air pollution and integrated urban development, including through sustainable urban drainage, soil desealing measures, rehabilitation of contaminated sites Through sprawl dynamics and Land Use Functions

• green infrastructure, including Natura 2000 sites Through land use patterns

• protecting and enhancing cultural heritage and landscapes Through land use patterns

• efficiency in the use of water by agriculture Through land use patterns• improvement of water and soil quality, and contribute to protecting soil

from erosion, compaction, salinisation, landslides, and loss of organic matter Through land use patterns

contribution to the thematic objectives

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Relevant elements mentioned by the Commission to be taken into account in the design of the PC:

1) An analysis of the Member State’s or region’s development potential and capacity justifying links between land use patterns and socioeconomic performance

2) An assessment of the major challenges to be addressed by the region or Member State, including the identification of the bottlenecks and missing links, innovation gaps, the lack of planning and implementation capacity etc. land use patter as a potential major challenge to be included

3) horizontal coordination; and 4) vertical coordination also to be analyzed in the field of spatial planning policies and instruments

5) Partnership Contract and programmes based on appropriate result indicators. Typologies, Land Use Functions and Land Use Efficiency as potential indicators.

contribution to the Partnership Contracts

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