Articles | Volume 8, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-683-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-683-2017
Research article
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20 Jun 2017
Research article |  | 20 Jun 2017

Assessing and analysing the impact of land take pressures on arable land

Ece Aksoy, Mirko Gregor, Christoph Schröder, Manuel Löhnertz, and Geertrui Louwagie

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The aim of this study is to relate the potential of land for a particular use in a given region with the actual land use. To this aim, the impact of several land cover flows related to urban development on soils with good, average, and poor production potentials were assessed and mapped. Thus, the amount and quality (potential for agricultural production) of agricultural land lost between the years 2000 and 2006 and the regions with major impact (hot spots) in Europe were identified.