Traduction de «Protection des rives » (Français → Anglais) :

In 1997, the federal government abolished the shoreline protection program, which helped people living along the shore who suffered major losses due to shoreline erosion.

Quebec's policy on shorelines, littoral zones and flood planes requires that a 15-metre band be protected.

23. Points out that from an ecological point of view Central and South-Eastern Europe is one of the richest but at the same time one of the most vulnerable areas of Europe, characterised by an ecosystem of high ecological complexity and great value, therefore requiring a high level of protection; welcomes the aim of the European Strategy for the Danube Region to create a liveable, sustainable and at the same time developed, prosperous Danube region by managing environmental risks such as floods and industrial pollution, preserving the quality and quantity of water reserves and ensuring their sustainable use, and preserving biodiversity, ...[+++] landscapes and the quality of air and soils; stresses that protecting the environment in the Danube basin is an important aspect which should stimulate responsible agricultural and rural development of the region; calls for improvements to the ecological status of the Danube, and for measures to reduce pollution and to prevent further releases of oil and other toxic and harmful substances; stresses that a good ecological status of the Danube is a prerequisite for all human activity along the river and recommends that the environmental targets should be considered in particular;

8. Calls on the EU to take the decision to join the Arctic Council, whose current members are the USA, Canada, Iceland, Norway and Russia and, among the EU Member States, Denmark, Sweden and Finland; considers that if the EU were a member of the Arctic Council, this would promote a shared Euro-Atlantic understanding of environmental problems and give the EU a significant forum for, inter alia, the ecological protection of nature in the northern seas;

28. Calls on the Council and Commission expressly to recognise the role of Mediterranean capital cities, to encourage them to establish relations, and, under decentralised programmes focusing on specific urban problems such as the provision of public utilities, the flight from the land, transport and communication networks, health and housing policy, conservation of cultural assets, and pollution control, to foster an exchange of experiences among Mediterranean towns and cities, whether lying on the northern or southern shore of the M ...[+++]editerranean;

Sustainability means that the ecosystem can continue to provide those services to us despite the activity that we're undertaking.