Project: European Topic Centre on Urban land and soil systems (ETC/ULS 2015-2018)
Financing institution: European Environment Agency
Project duration: 2015-2018
Project description: The European Topic Centre on Urban, Land and Soil systems, ETC/ULS, supports the European Environment Agency (EEA) in supporting the monitoring of urban development in Europe, creating European wide spatial reference data and developing and analysing various land related indicators.
UAB role: The UAB contributed to the ETC/ULS during 2015-2018 in the following tasks:
- The development of an Integrated Data Platform which enables the semantic inventory, handling and analysis of various spatial layers facilitating effective and efficient integrated spatial data analysis and provides a spatial assessment service to the different parts of the EEA’s work programme.
- Development of a land recycling indicator. Development of the methodology and implementation.
- Integrated analysis of urban systems, with special focus on urban sustainability.
- Networking of urban monitoring. Given the specificities of urban systems, a joint collaborative initiative between the EEA, ETC and other European institutions/organizations and stakeholders intended to integrate different urban monitoring systems: Integrated Urban Monitoring initiative (IUME).
- Supported reporting on the environment and tourism; developed of a set of indicators and a corresponding assessment.
Website: https://www.eionet.europa.eu/etcs/etc-uls/