Traduction de «zone d'intense activité métabolique » (Français → Anglais) :

K. whereas certain factors linked to human activity may aggravate the impact of natural disasters, such as intensive farming, involving the traditional use of fire as a farming tool, deforestation, the massive reduction in the natural flood retention capacity of river basins and intensive urbanisation in areas at risk and also the invasion of mountain areas by city dwellers in pursuit of leisure activities,

Fifty years of intense development and exploitation have resulted in significant change to the fragile natural resources of the Mediterranean and Black Seas, and their coastal areas.

Airport complexes are hives of intense economic activity and appeal; our intention to preserve jobs, reasserted in Lisbon, means that we do not have the right to avoid this issue.

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;

On the map we have given you, you will see semi-intensive recreation, intensive recreation and extensive recreation.