Expert meeting on Land Use and Ecosystem accounting
18-19 May 2006
EEA, Copenhagen, Fontana room
Draft Agenda
Day 1 (09:00 – 17:00): Conceptual framework
Objective: common understanding of the framework and agreement on tables to fill in
Sessions will be introduced by a short presentation (15mn), followed by a discussion
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome: Ronan Uhel
09:15 – 10:00 The framework of land use and ecosystem accounts: J-L. Weber
Framework design (stocks/flows, health, goods and services, capital), land analytical and reporting units,
indicators (Land cover change, HANPP, E. Footprint…)
10:00 – 10:45 Case study on coastal wetlands: Françoise Breton
Selection of clc classes (clc 4 + 521 + 522 + others?), sketch accounts, main tables
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:45 Case study on dry/mesic grassland: Dominique Richard
Selection of clc classes (clc 321 + 322 + others?), priority area / 4 PHARE countries with clc75 (only?), sketch
accounts, main tables
11:45 – 12:15 Preliminary results on NPP/Biomass accounting: Nadine Gobron, Agnieszka
Romanowicz, Franz Daffner
12:15 – 13:00 Discussion
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Cases studies on large ecosystems/ eco-complexes: Iulian Nichersu, J-L. Weber
Danube Delta, Doñana …sketch accounts, main tables
15:00 – 15:45 Case study on rural land use functions, focus on HNV: Tomas Soukup
Rural landscape and HNV (typology), focus on dry/mesic grassland? Pasture & mosaics? (for comparative
analysis), sketch accounts (ecosystem side & sector side (land use, agriculture statistics), main tables
15:45 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 16:45 Case study on landscape connectivity and fragmentation, focus in relation to
wetlands and dry/mesic grassland J-L. Weber, Oscar Gomez
Assessment of connectivity & fragmentation, sketch accounts, map and main table
Day 2 (09:00 – 16:00): Data issues
Objective: have a precise picture of data availability, of how to download them and the way of processing them in
a consistent manner for the different projects
09:00 – 09:15 Introduction to the session: J-L. Weber
09:15 – 13:00 Datasets availability
09:15 – 09:45 LEAC datasets: Oscar Gomez
CLC/LEAC, Background CORILIS maps, LARUs (NUTS, River basins, DLT/elevation…)
09:45 – 10:15 Species and habitats Dominique Richard, Grégoire Lois
N2000, CDDA, RAMSAR, Atlases, Fish, MedWet data
10:15 – 10:25 Small ecosystems? Temporary wetlands? J-L. Weber
10:15 – 10:30 Water: Philippe Crouzet
Meteo, Water stocks/ flows (rivers, lakes, wetlands, in soil)
10:30 – 11:00 NPP/ fAPAR (SPOT4-Vegetation, MERIS): Nadine Gobron, Agnieszka
Romanowicz
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 11:45 Stocks of biomass/ C, soil formation/ degradation (organic matter): Franz
Daffner
11:45 – 12:15 N surplus, fluxes and deposition (anthropic, atmospheric): Philippe Crouzet
12:15 – 13:00 Socio-economic statistics: Tomas Soukup
Roads/railways/canals (situation, TEN-T projects…), Population to clc/ 1990 & 2000, Crops (selected…),
Livestock, Farming practices, LUCAS, Tourism, Other socio-economic statistics
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Data storage and service: Oscar Gomez, Markus Erhard, Ian Bliki
15:00 – 15:45 Round table on database assimilation
Reference grids; stratification (s) / clc, CORILIS, NPP variation, relief… N2000 and clc habitat contents;
combined database; probability issue; Intersection/ resampling of fAPAR & Meteo data to clc units or to km² grid;
distribution of statistics (livestock, crops, fertilizers, pesticides) to clc units; choice of levels of aggregation for
balancing accounts and reporting.
15:45 – 16:00 Conclusions Ronan Uhel
16:00 End of the meeting
Participants:
EEA :
Agnieszka Romanowicz
Andrus Meiner
Ali Gul
Ronan Uhel
Rania Spyropoulou
Philippe Crouzet
Markus Erhard
Franz Daffner
Jan Bliki
Ivone Pereira Martins
Jan-Erik Petersen
Jean-Louis Weber
ETCTE
Francoise Breton
Stefan Kleeschulte
Oscar Gomez
Ferran Páramo
Tomas Soukup
Iulian Nichersu
Gebhard Banko
X - Andalusia
ETCBD
Lubos Helada
Doug Taylor
Dominique Richard
X - (ETCBD)
Other experts :
Irene Bouwma, Sander Mücher – Alterra
Nadine Gobron (JRC)