2001 to 2017 records contain a content coding of all forest clearance exemption requests submitted to the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment. The dataset identifies whether clearance reasons are linked to sustainable economy objectives like green economy, bioeconomy, and circular economy. It was published by ENVIDAT and last updated in 2022.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in 'sustainable economy' justifications like 'green economy' or 'circular economy' over the 2001-2017 period.
- Model the relationship between project initiator types and the cited clearance reason codes.
- Classify exemption approval decisions based on the coded content attributes of the request.
- Assess temporal patterns in forest clearance request volumes and their attributed objectives.
Strengths
- Covers a 17-year time range from 2001 to 2017.
- Contains a complete census of all forest clearance requests for the period.
Limitations
- Specific row count, column details, and sample data are unavailable.
- Data is temporally stale, ending in 2017 with no more recent updates.
Provenance
- Source
- Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), Switzerland, via ENVIDAT.
- Collection Method
- Administrative records of exemption approval requests submitted by project initiators to cantonal forest administrations.
- Time Range
- 2001 to 2017
- Freshness
- Last updated in 2022, but underlying data ends in 2017.
- Geography
- Switzerland