Author(s): Gómez, José Manuel Naranjo ; Loures, Luís Carlos ; Castanho, Rui Alexandre ; Cabezas Fernández, José ; Fernández-Pozo, Luis ; Lousada, Sérgio António Neves ; Escórcio, Patrícia
Date: 2019
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/4859
Origin: DigitUMa - Repositório da Universidade da Madeira
Subject(s): Land uses; CORINE Land Cover; European territories; Geographic information system (GIS) tools; Planning; .; Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia
The need to understand what land use is has motivated the development of programmes that aims to identify it and quantify it—CORINE Land Cover (CLC) in 1985. From this official and open geodatabase—through the using of geographic information system (GIS) tools—the amount of area established for each land use has been identified in all the 28 member states of the EU. This mostly corresponds to agricultural and forestry uses. Between 1990 and 2012, it was possible to determine countries with variable land use models such as Finland, Latvia, Portugal and Spain—the rest of the states presenting stable land use models. Additionally, some countries are characterized by the predomi nance of one or two land uses. Contextually, the proposal aims to develop a retrospective study regarding the land-use changes in the EU territories from 1990 to 2012, through the available tools such as CLC.
