Provides:

• Support of the SDG Framework at national and city level
• Support of city authorities’ understanding of urban growth dynamics
• Policy support to city decision-makers, as it projects demand for public goods and service, identify new areas of growth, and proactively influence sustainable urban development (UN Habitat, 2018)
• Facilitates Inter-city and international comparisons of progress towards the SDG Target
• Illustrates the Indicator’s sensitivity to a city definition

The above example for BOLOGNA, one of the 5 pilot cities, shows the difference between the Corine Land Cover classification at first level and the soil consumption map based on definitions used by ISPRA_SNPA

Makes use of: land consumption data produced by ISPRA

Smart features:

• Dissemination through web
• Easy to comprehend
• Potentially scalable on different levels (geographically and resolution-wise)