Land Use Classification - United Nations

LG/14/10 14th Meeting of the London Group on Environmental Accounting Canberra, 27 30 April 2009 land Use Classification Xiaoning Gong, Lars Gunnar Marklund, and Sachiko Tsuji, FAO land Use Classification Proposed to Be Used in the System of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting (SEEA) (Draft Version) Xiaoning Gong, FAO Statistics Division Lars Gunnar Marklund, FAO Forestry Department Sachiko Tsuji, FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department 23 April 2009 Thanks are due to Dominic Ballayan, Pietro Gennari, Naman Keita, David Marshall, Robert Mayo, Freddy Nachtergaele, Hiek Som, Mukesh Srivastava, and Mette Loyche Wilkie for beneficial discussions and inputs.

The issue of land use classification is a truly cross-cutting one. The rest of this paper is organized as follows: in the next section, it shows that the proposed LU classification is constructed on the basis of the major LU databases/datasets at the global level. It is followed by a section describing the

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