1 Austria National descriptions of INVEKOS: database (e.g. aerial photos, maps) and e- government of 8 main production areas and 87 sub-areas National Registers of AL Classification of austrian communities: geographical position at and allocation to the agricultural main and subproduction areas National Atlas of AL Maps No - Several maps on agricultural production areas, some older natural landscape potential maps from some Austrian provinces 2 atlasses: Flanders & Wallon; Belgium Landscape characterisation Third National Atlas of Soil maps, Soil associations, Traditional settlement types; 1:2.000.00 01:1.000.0 Agricultural production 2 Belgium Yes (48 types) Yes Belgium 00 areas (20 regions) 17 Landscape Yes not yet not yet Diff. material available: types, classification Department of Agriculture & description, (DoA); e.g. agricultural Warnock, Griffiths, land use, satellite land Vogiatzakis 2008 cover (CORINE), soil 3 Cyprus classification etc. 4 Czech Republik Yes 5 Croatia No Yes, 16 basic landscape units; agricultural regions and subregions 2003 Yes (common agricultural register SZR, soil and users registers (LPIS), owners (Cadastral maps), special register (vineyard, gardens, hop garden) integrated register of livestock, register of protect areas in the CZ) No Diff. material, e.g.: LPIS, Ortophotomap, NSA, LFA, Protect area, Pedological map, BPEJ Units ecological classification of soil, Contamination soil map, other soil maps; Corine Land Cover, Digital map rural development Agroecological zone FAO 1995 Basic land use (1991) 1:50.000 1:20.000, 1:500.000 1:300.000; 1:100.000 GIS LEP: agricultural development plan / concept SUP: strategical environmental audit : effects on agriculture Categorization of soil quality, nitrate sensitive areas, environmental sensitive areas, less favour areas, categorization production type. Outstanding cultural landscapes of littoral Croatia (2010), Corine Land Cover classes (2000) Contact: Alexandra Kruse, secretariat@eucalandnetwork.eu 1
of National Registers Nr. Country Maps Yes (with regards to agricultural land Corine Land Cover 1995 and 2000 use) Integrated Agricultural Control municipality land use 1:50000, 6 DK Yes (1986, needs updating) Yes System yes level (2000); IACS 1:25:000 No No (No) Agricultural No Estonian Base 1:50.000 e-services: www.maaamet.ee, Support and Land Parcel Register, Field register, Land cadastre Map Web Map Server collects and presents all national spatial databases; maps of soil and plant cover and landscape regions, 7 Estonia CORINE 2000 etc. 8 Finland Yes classification of valuable national cultural landscapes 1992, Ministry of the Environment (), 156 landscape areas Yes Yes Yes Yes Photographing method, databases of soil, topography, land cover, IS for Monitoring the Living Environment, ELYSE, 12 monitoring themes No; Departmental atlas of landscapes Yes (1992), will be updated every 10 years; Corine Land Cover; Photographs RTM 9 France No (2008) No departemental 10 Germany several descriptions of landscapes e.g. Meynen, Schmithüsen (1953-1662), 89 main regions, 500 sub-entities; Farmhouse and landscape (Ellenberg 1990, different maps, 1:5000000 print) BfN 2004 Valuable landscapes in Germany, 858 landscapes, 24 types of Germany 1999-2006, partly ly available National topographic survey vector data (ATKIS-DLM 25; >2000; 1:25000, ly available, mostly ca. every 5 years) 1:1.000.000 Soil maps div. Geographical classification of natural landscapes (Meynen, Schmithüsen 1953-1962; 1:1000000, ly available) Atlas of German landscapes and biotopes (Jedicke 1992; 1:7000000) All levels of landscape planning National strategic plan for the development of rural areas (BMELV 2006) Contact: Alexandra Kruse, secretariat@eucalandnetwork.eu 2
11 Greece 12 Hungary 13 Italy 14 Latvia No; some descriptions of historical landscapes existing National description: 6 large, 35 medium seize, 244 small landscape units are described, including geography, climate, soils, vegetation etc., as far as land use. Yes, e.g.: Description of historical rural landscapes (Sereni E., 1961), Geographical description of landscape types, TCI Italian Touring Club (1963, e.g. Rural houses, drainages, soil s use, typologies of cultivations, historic organization of territory) of No; only related to production, incl. classification of arable land agricultural land use zone plan (3) National Registers Maps spatial database with farms, farmers and land use data No - for land use Vineyard cataster. Orchard cataster. Agro-ecological districts x 1:10.000-1:100.000 Le forme del territorio italiano (The shapes of Italian territory (Clementi A., Dematteis G.,1996, digitized 1:25.000; 1:50.000 Collection of air photographs are ongoing; up to recent spatial data 1:50.000 x 1:50.000 Soil map: 1:10.000 for arable lands, 1:25.000 for the whole - 1:100.00 country (on paper, slides and 0 other materials) in form 1:100.000 (Agrotopography map). Maps of ESA, Natura2000, CLC (1:50.000), MEPAR etc. CORINE Land Cover (sev. years, sev. s) maps of landscape types on regional level, soil maps div. K. Ramans (1994): Complex landscape classification (in Latvian), Latvian Landscape regions (x) x 1:40.000 Thematic Atlas Italy; Geographical Types Atlas; Agriculture Census; Environmental maps (geology, geomorphology, soil, vegetation, ); National Heritage Register (SITAP), Ministry of cultural heritage and activities, Register of Protected Areas; constantly updated; informatics database; on-line accessible Agriculture census, ISTAT; each 5 years; data on farms Historical and recent topography mapping Maps of Geology of Latvia (1: 200000) (2002) Contact: Alexandra Kruse, secretariat@eucalandnetwork.eu 3
15 Lithuania 16 Moldavia 17 Norway 18 Poland several highly generalized descriptions and mappings of Lithuanian agricultural landscapes in several aspects (e.g. Bučas 2001) V.V. Docuciaev (1889) and Lev Berg: Landscape zones of USSR ; 1969: The republican agricultural system 45 Landscape Regions (Atlas), 444 Sub-regions of (x) 120 natural landscapes 10 Agricultural Landscape Regions National Registers register of cultural and natural heritage objects; database of all land owners and their land property 3Q monitoring programme for AL; national census data National Heritage Board (NHB) of Moldova 1978 (1990) 45 landscape regions: a map, 2 page text description, 6 illustrative photos for each region (in Norwegian) Atlas of the Republic of Poland (1993-1997) Maps of AL x >=1:3.000. 000 1:750.000; 1:1.500.000 x 1:750.000 1:2.000.000 (AL), 1:500.000 (L) x div. land use (1957), Topography and thematic maps: geology, geomorphology, soils, hydrology, vegetation. 1:750.000 1:500.000 1:200.000 1:100.000; 1:25.000; 1:10.000 Cartographic databases, CORINE land cover database, Landsat photos. Multiple works on landscape development, change, structure Map of Geology, Exogen Processes, Geomorphology, Soil, Natural Vegetation cultural heritage database Aerial photos various periods Poland Disappearing Landscapes (Lewandowski, Szewczyk 2008 several geoportals online maps and data available Map of natural landscapes Krajobrazy (Landscapes) Nr 17/46 1997: Protection and Conservation of Historical Cultural Landscape (National Project, Ministry of Culture and Art) and related publications Corine Land Cover 2000 Landscape- and Spatial Planning Contact: Alexandra Kruse, secretariat@eucalandnetwork.eu 4
19 Portugal (No) of Landscape Character Assessment (2004) 122 landscape areas, 22 regional groups plus agricultural classifications, but not based on landscape National Registers No 20 Romania Yes Landscape Atlas of the Slovak Republic, 2002, 21 Slovakia x White Book of the Agriculture and Rural Development (2003) Atlas of Rural Spain (2005) Atlas of Spain s Landscapes National Land (2004): 23 land- Use and Culti- scape associations, 94 vation Map types, 1134 landscape units 1970er 22 Spain (2000) LPIS Land Parcel Identification System, 2002, online, including soil information Maps of AL National AT- LAS (2005) Atlas of the Slovak Socialistic Republic, 1980 of Spain 2005, 12 landscape types Yes, different top- 1:1.000.000 ; 1:200.000 ics 1:50,000 div. u.a. 1:750.000 x 1:50.000-1:700.000 x but only small 23 Sweden Yes (Yes) Yes Yes div. div. National analysis for the Ministry of Agriculture (2006), CORINE Land Cover, Agricultural Sector (Agrar statistics), Agricultural data (land use, soil etc. land use/soil etc.) regularily updated, detailed on several topics ; Corine Land Cover Ethnographical Atlas of Slovakia, 1990, Farm Structure Census and other statistical data; Agricultural statistical data SLOV STAT (online) Corine Land Cover 2000 National Agrarian Census (1999), Data on agricultural land concentration (as an indicator excluding cultural landscapes) Contact: Alexandra Kruse, secretariat@eucalandnetwork.eu 5
24 25 The Netherlands 26 UK AREALSTATISTIK 1972, 1985, 1997 mostly, including descriptions, maps etc. 97 land-use types, 16 agrarian types 12 provinces, 12 different systems; several descriptions of Dutch landscapes (of importance), but not as area-wide descriptions Countryside Character Areas, EH Settlement Atlas; Countryside Survey (land cover), Countryside Quality Counts, HLC (historic landscape characterisation) LCA Landscape character assessment, digitial National classification National Registers Atlas of National /L AL Maps Switzerland No, but canton ARE- ALwide, census of agricultural enterprises STATISTIK?? Yes, different approaches areal statistics: land-use categories climate data terrain information Soil map land suitability map divers maps of agricutural statistics NL KennisInfrastructuur CultuurHistorie, kortweg KICH, online; and by provinces, most of them online available Yes Cadastral maps diff. layers most material is online available, Yes 1:200.000, 100m, 25m 1:100.000 most material is online available, Corine Land Cover, PELCOM, large number of regional maps of historic landscape relics http://www.kich.nl/#a=0 ;b=0 Historic data: 20th cent Land Utilisation surveys 1930s 1940 Farm Survey Land Utilisation surveys 1960s, Defra farm agricultural support data, LCA ( blocky resolution) CQC (countryside quality counts) Contact: Alexandra Kruse, secretariat@eucalandnetwork.eu 6