Description
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
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conversion of total area by land-use class – English (1.1 kB) | CSV | Open resource | |
| Conversion of total area by land-use class – French (1.3 kB) | CSV | Open resource | |
| Total area converted to cropland or settlement by region – English (1.5 KB) | CSV | Open resource | |
| Total area converted to cropland or settlement by region – French (1.9 KB) | CSV | Open resource | |
| Land-use change – English | HTML | Open resource | |
| Data sources and methods – English | HTML | Open resource | |
| Land-use change – French | HTML | Open resource | |
| Data sources and methods – French | HTML | Open resource |