Showing posts with label forestry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label forestry. Show all posts

Sunday, 9 February 2014

The land use trade-off is not between urban and agricultural, it's between farms and forests.

Taken from Eurostat.

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UPDATE: Further to Kj's comment, I have done another chart to show the amount of developed land relative to the adjusted value* of agricultural land.

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* I applied relative values of 1 to arable land, 1/3 to grassland i.e. pastoral land and 1/20 to woodland. I excluded water areas, wetland, scrubland and bare land.

** The list excludes Malta, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Romania.