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GREEN BELT [4 records]

Record 1 2012-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Areal Planning (Urban Studies)
  • Ecology (General)
DEF

In urban planning and in the planning of suburban subdivisions, a buffer zone which consists of land areas where development is severely limited, i.e. of land areas restricted from being used for houses and buildings and left instead to grow and beautify the area, in order to afford recreation, nature, bird watching, etc.

CONT

Green belts have at least three specific functions: to prevent the unrestricted sprawl of large built-up areas; to provide areas of unspoilt countryside wherein people from the towns can find recreation and enjoyment; and to provide for the continued use of farmland, woodland, heath and common land.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aménagement du territoire
  • Écologie (Généralités)
DEF

Zone continue de végétation appropriée, destinée généralement à isoler une agglomération, ou des installations, de certaines nuisances.

OBS

ceinture verte : [terme] générique qui englobe des syntagmes plus spécifiques tels coupure verte [en anglais : «green internal»], bande verte [en anglais «green strip» ou «green stripe»] et zone agricole [en anglais : «agricultural zone»].

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Planificación de zonas (Urbanismo)
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
DEF

Conjunto de parques, jardines, bosques periurbanos y demás zonas verdes que rodean una ciudad.

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Record 2 2004-09-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric Physics
  • Plant and Crop Production
DEF

That warmest part of a slope above a valley floor lying between the layer of cold air that forms over the valley floor on calm, clear nights and the cold hilltops or plateaus.

CONT

Silas McDowell (1795-1879) was a southern pomologist and a botanist of renown ... during the 1850s. ... He was the originator of the "thermal belt" concept which is a zone on a mountainside where frost and freezes are less common than in the valleys and on the mountaintops.

OBS

The air flowing down the slopes is warmed by mixing with the air above ground level and to some extent also by adiabatic compression. The frostless zone is not a fixed belt but varies in level from night to night and season to season according to the initial temperature, the length of the night, and the clearness of the sky. Its lower limit is sometimes clearly marked by the upper limit of frost damage to crops, following the hillsides at a small angle to the horizontal.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique de l'atmosphère
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
DEF

Partie la plus chaude d'une pente au-dessus du fond d'une vallée, située entre la couche d'air froid qui se forme au fond de la vallée par nuit claire et calme et les sommets froids ou les plateaux.

Spanish

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Record 3 2001-08-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Combat Sports (General)
OBS

Taekwondo.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de combat (Généralités)
OBS

Taekwondo.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de lucha (Generalidades)
OBS

Taekwondo.

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Record 4 1991-07-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (Canada)
  • Plant and Crop Production
OBS

The Greenbelt is a 20,350 hectares band of open lands and forests surrounding the nation's capital on the Ontario side of the Ottawa River.

Key term(s)
  • Green Belt

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (Canada)
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
OBS

La Ceinture de verdure est une étendue de 20,350 hectares d'espaces verts et de forêts entourant la Capitale nationale du côté ontarien de la rivière des Outaouais.

Spanish

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