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You have now entered to the new website of the UBC Commission on Environment and its secretariat. This website contains information about the Commission on Environment activities, projects, member cities and services. The website is maintained in English. By clicking to a language sign you can find documents existing in that language.
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Ensuring quality of life in Europe's cities and towns – report developed jointly by several organizations is now available. Get to know more about the various perspectives on, and perceptions of, quality of life with a specific focus on cities and towns. The report stresses the challenges ahead to ensure quality of life in the long run for all social groups, and the crucial importance of sustainability and the environment as our life supporting system. The report sheds light on certain aspects of the current quality of life discussions in order to illustrate how different conceptions of quality of life influence the quality of life of others, and provides ideas for ways to meet the chal-lenges that lie ahead. It aims to support individuals and politicians to discover a balanced concept for quality of life compatible with sustainable development. EEA Report No 5/2009
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www.eea.europa.eu/publications/quality-of-life-in-Europes-cities-and-towns


BC Environmental Bulletin 1/2009 is out. You can read about stakeholder involvement activities in UBC cities as a 