Translation of "exploitation économique intensive " (French → English) :

Intensive energy use, unsustainable exploitation of natural resources and unwillingness to add the environmental costs to the costs of production and transport are now threatening the resource base on which economic and social development depend.

In the EU, there is still considerable potential for facilitating improvements in quality and productivity through more intensive cooperation between economic players.

A country can increase its GDP by intensively exploiting its natural resources but its assets would then be reduced, leaving less available for future generations; the Committee also warns against setting economic growth against other aspects of well-being; experience shows that sound economic growth is most often a precondition for considering other dimensions of well-being in policymaking;

Economic sector(s) concerned: Intensive dairy farms (small and medium-sized enterprises) measuring 75 Dutch size units (NGE) or more and located in areas with more than 2 % gradient in South Limburg are eligible for aid.

Economic sector(s) concerned: Intensive dairy farms (small and medium-sized enterprises) measuring 75 Dutch size units (NGE) or more and located in areas with more than 2 % gradient in South Limburg are eligible for aid.

79. Further urges all parties concerned to recognise that nature protection is not achievable solely through the identification and protection of designated areas, but must also be based on general policies which stimulate sustainable economic activity both in the countryside and in urban areas (including recreational pursuits), encourage environmentally friendly agriculture and forestry and the development of the urban and industrial environments, integrate environmental considerations into the broad range of public policy wherever appropriate, most obviously in relation to transport and energy, reduce overall levels of air- and water-b ...[+++]ased pollution, preserve soil quality and other natural resources, and discourage forms of economic activity which lead to the destruction of valuable habitats (such as the draining of wetlands); to this end seek ways to avoid the reproduction of problems characteristic of the EU 15, problems associated with intensive farming, monoculture, displacement of agricultural labour, and a failure to take into account the general and economic value of biodiversity; such ways to include, inter alia, the broad exploitation of possibilities to counter such tendencies (and to encourage, for example, the survival of rural communities, smallholdings, traditional and ecologically friendly methods of field division - such as hedges, water channels and dry stone walls - rare breeds of domestic animal, and ecological corridors) offered by existing budgetary measures such as the EAGGF and the Community Instrument LEADER;