Land-use change

The Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) program provides data and information to track Canada's performance on key environmental sustainability issues. The Land-use change indicator reports the proportion of agricultural land that has been converted to settlement and the amount of forest that has been converted to cropland or settlement in Canada south of 60° North. Land-use change is the main cause of biodiversity loss globally. Measuring land-use change provides a way to quantify pressures on ecosystems and biodiversity, and can be used to inform environmental management and policy to prevent further loss of ecological integrity. Information is provided to Canadians in a number of formats including: static and interactive maps, charts and graphs, HTML and CSV data tables and downloadable reports. See the supplementary documentation for the data sources and details on how the data were collected and how the indicator was calculated.


Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators: https://www.canada.ca/environmental-indicators

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File Identifier
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Date Stamp
2022-09-26T17:22:44
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy Level
Series
Custodian
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators
 

Data identification

Date (Publication)
2021-10-29
Date (Creation)
2021-10-29
Status
Completed
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Character set
utf8
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Society
Maintenance and Update Frequency
As needed
Custodian
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators

Keywords

Theme

  • land-use change, land use change, land cover, forest, agriculture, cropland, settlement

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

  • Terrestrial ecosystems

  • Land cover

  • Environmental indicators

  • Sustainable development
 
Use Limitation

Open Government Licence - Canada ( http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada )

Access Constraints
License
Use Constraints
License
Begin Date
2010-01-01
End Date
2015-12-31

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Distribution Formats

Distribution format
  • CSV ( unknown )

 
Distributor
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada
 
 

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Keywords

land-use change, land use change, land cover, forest, agriculture, cropland, settlement
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
Environmental indicators Land cover Sustainable development Terrestrial ecosystems

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