Multi-scale analysis of urban sprawl in Europe: Towards a European de-sprawling strategy

• Ernest I. Hennig ^[1] ; Christian Schwick ^[2] ; Tomáš Soukup ^[3] ; Erika Orlitová ^[3] ; Felix Kienast ^[2] ; Jochen A.G. Jaeger ^[1]
  1. [1] Concordia University

     Concordia University

     Canadá

     
  2. [2] Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zürich. Switzerland
  3. [3] GISAT and the European Centre on Urban, Land and Soil systems (ETC-ULS) of the European Environment Agency, Prague. Czech Republic

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• Localización: Land use policy: The International Journal Covering All Aspects of Land Use, ISSN 0264-8377, ISSN-e 1873-5754, Nº. 49, 2015, págs. 483-498
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Urban sprawl is a major challenge on the way to sustainable land use as highlighted by the International Year of Soils 2015. Because of increasing awareness of this threat in Europe, there is an urgent need to monitor urban sprawl and to guide European policy development. We found considerable sprawl in Europe at three scales with highly affected regions in the centre and along the Mediterranean coast using recently available consistent data across Europe from the European Copernicus programme. Based on our results, we propose a European de-sprawling strategy, including the implementation of targets and limits, and a set of concrete measures to control urban sprawl and to use land in a more resource-efficient way.