| Chinese | English |
| 土地保护 | land conservation The care, preservation and re-use of solid areas of the earth's surface, especially soil regions valued as a natural resource or utilized as an agricultural resource (地球表面坚固地区的管理、保护和重利用，特别是作为天然资源和农业资源的土壤地区。) |
| 地下水保护 | groundwater protection Precautionary actions, procedures or installations undertaken to prevent or reduce harm to the environmental integrity of fresh water found beneath the earth's surface, usually in aquifers, which supply wells and springs (为避免和减少对地下水体环境整体性的损害，所采取的预防措施、程序或安装的装置，而这些地下水体通常位于含水层，是井水和泉水的来源。) |
| 地下水保护 | water table protection Water table is inherently susceptible to contamination from landuse activities. Remediation is very expensive and often impractical. Prevention of contamination is therefore critical in effective groundwater management (地下水极易受到土地利用活动的污染。整治地下水是非常昂贵的，而且往往是不切实际的。因此防止污染在地下水的有效管理中很关键。) |
| 地区性自我保护主义 | NIMBY aptitude aptitude "not in my back yard"; Not In My BackYard: phrase used to describe people who encourage the development of agriculture land for building houses or factories, provided it is not near where they themselves are living (不要在我的后院里：短语用来描述鼓励为农业土地的发展而建造房子或者工厂的人们，只要建造的房子或者工厂不靠近他们自己正居住的地方。) |
| 山地保护 | mountain protection |
| 湿地保护 | conservation of wetlands |
