EEA Report No 8/2016
The 2011 Roadmap to a resource efficient Europe states, in its milestone of actions to address land as a resource, that ‘By 2020, EU policies take into account their direct and indirect impact on land use in the EU and globally. This report presents a methodology for the assessment of European Union (EU) policies in terms of their land-related implications in Europe and provides an initial testing of the methodology across key EU policies and two in-depth case studies, which focus on Cohesion Policy spending on transport in Poland and Spain.
