Hard surfaces, hidden costs. Searching for alternatives to land take and soil sealing

The objective of this Commission Staff Working Document containing guidelines on best practice to limit, mitigate or compensate for soil sealing is to provide information on the magnitude of soil sealing in the European Union (EU), its impacts and examples of best practice. Such best practice examples may be of interest to competent authorities in Member States (at national, regional and local levels), professionals dealing with land planning and soil management, and stakeholders in general, but individual citizens may also find them useful

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