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Quantifying the land footprint of Germany and the EU using a hybrid accounting model


Footprint analysis reveals the appropriation of land resources from a consumer’s perspective. This report presents a novel hybrid land-flow accounting method for the calculation of land footprints, employing a globally consistent top-down approach and combining physical with environmental-economic accounting. It delivers detailed results for cropland, grassland and forest land footprints for Germany and the EU28 for the years 1995 to 2010, broken down by origin, type and use.

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Series
Texte | 78/2017
Number of pages
98
Year of publication
September 2017
Author(s)
Günther Fischer, Sylvia Tramberend, Martin Bruckner, Mirko Lieber
Related publications
Review of land flow accounting methods and recommendations for further developmentExtending land footprints towards characterizing sustainability of land useDevelopment of consumption-based land use indicators Entwicklung von konsumbasierten Landnutzungsindikatoren
Language
English
Project No. (FKZ)
3711 12 102 2
Publisher
Umweltbundesamt
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 land footprint  land use indicators  consumption-based  land and material flow accounting  input-output-analysis

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