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Decadal maps of multiple alternative future land use based on UK Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (UK-SSPs) and climate projections (UK-RCPs)

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
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Summary

The data describes future land use projections at 1 km^2 resolution developed by CRAFTY-GB. For each of six Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP-RCP) scenarios, gridded land use maps for Great Britain are provided, each as a stacked raster file with seven bands representing land use at each decadal timestep, from 2020 to 2080. CRAFTY-GB is a new agent-based model of the British land system operating at a 1 km^2 resolution and based on a broad range of available land system data . The model is based on linked UK-RCP climate scenarios and UK-SSPs socio-economic pathway (SSP) scenarios, based on global SSPs developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It extrapolates the impact of these on the British Land system at decadal timesteps from 2020-2080. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/f9ab3051-4f85-415f-b691-371ff8e951f2

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
25 July 2026
Harvest GUID
f9ab3051-4f85-415f-b691-371ff8e951f2
Extent (Latitude)
60.861° to 49.864°
Extent (Longitude)
-8.648° to 1.768°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2023-07-26
Dataset reference date (creation)
2023-05-22
Access constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Brown, C., Seo, B., Alexander, P., Burton, V., Chacón-Montalván, E.A., Dunford-Brown, R., Merkle, M., Harrison, P.A., Prestele, R., Robinson, E.L., Rounsevell, M. (2023). Decadal maps of multiple alternative future land use based on UK Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (UK-SSPs) and climate projections (UK-RCPs). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/f9ab3051-4f85-415f-b691-371ff8e951f2
Responsible party
(author, pointOfContact, publisher, owner, custodian); Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (owner); University of Edinburgh (owner); Forest Research (owner); Lancaster University (owner); Helmholtz Association (owner)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng