Traduction de «Zone urbaine périphérique » (Français → Anglais) :

Particular attention is thereby to be paid to rural areas, areas suffering from an economic handicap or affected by industrial transition, and regions which suffer from severe and permanent natural or demographic handicaps such as the northernmost regions with very low population density and island, cross-border and mountain regions; the Committee of the Regions would also highlight the challenges listed in the Europe 2020 study for the EU's regions, including the outermost regions, as well as urban areas whose outskirts are often increasingly run down and affected by growing social and economic impoverishment; considers, furthermore, ...[+++]that the scope of the Europe 2020 strategy should also cover the outermost regions, in accordance with Article 349 TFEU;

Overall, these 40 urban regions showed a growth of GDP between 1995 and 2000 of 3.3% to 4.1% per year as against 3% for the growth metropoles and 4-5% for a number of peripheral urban regions which are developing rapidly, as noted below.

The grants under the WF will be primarily used to co-finance projects and programmes targeted to providing access to water and sanitation for the low-income customers and socially disadvantaged areas (peri-urban areas, small towns and villages).

Urban sprawl, on the one hand, and abandonment of land as result of economic restructuring in peripheral areas and the accession countries, on the other, pose an ongoing threat to biodiversity.

This concentration of population in central areas is reflected in high levels of urbanisation and a clustering of activities, in particular the high-skill sectors (company headquarters, research institutes, universities, etc.), giving these areas productivity levels 2.4 times greater than in outlying areas.

This concentration of population in central areas is reflected in high levels of urbanisation and a clustering of activities, in particular the high-skill sectors (company headquarters, research institutes, universities, etc.), giving these areas productivity levels 2.4 times greater than in outlying areas.