Peer Reviewed Journal via three different mandatory reviewing processes, since 2006, and, from September 2020, a fourth mandatory peer-editing has been added.
The European Environment Agency has started the implementation
of a programme of land use and ecosystem accounts, following the
System of Environmental and Economic Accounts (SEEA)
guidelines of the United Nations. The purpose is to integrate
information across the various ecosystem components and to support
further assessments and modeling of these components and their
interactions with economic and social developments. This
programme reflects the increasing demand for environmental policy
integration in Europe, both vertically through thematic policies as
well as horizontally across policies in those sectors that contribute
most to environmental impacts. The construction of land and
ecosystem accounts is now feasible due to continuous improvements
in monitoring, collecting and processing data and progress with the
development of statistical methods that facilitate data assimilation
and integration. The accounts are based on explicit spatial patterns
provided by comprehensive land cover accounts that can be upscaled
and downscaled using a 1km² grid to any type of administrative
region or ecosystem zone (e.g., river basin catchments, coastal zones
or bio- geographic areas). Land cover accounts have been produced
for 24 countries in Europe and published in EEA Report in 2006.
