text: Another method of ensuring the ecological health of streams while limiting impacts on human infrastructures is to delineate a corridor within which the stream is expected to migrate over time. This method is based on the concept of minimum intervention within this corridor, whose limits should be determined based on the streams hydrology and geomorphology. Although this concept is often restricted to the lateral mobility of streams (related to bank erosion), some systems also integrate the space necessary for floods of various return periods. This concept has been developed and adapted in various countries around the world, resulting in the notion of "stream corridor" or "river corridor" in the U.S., "room for the river" in the Netherlands, "" ("freedom space") in France (where the concept of "erodible corridor" is also used) and Québec (Canada), "" ("space reserved for water(courses)") in Switzerland, "'" in Italy, "fluvial territory" in Spain and "making space for water" in the United Kingdom. A cost-benefit analysis has shown that this approach could be beneficial in the long term due to lower stream stabilization and maintenance costs, lower damages resulting from erosion and flooding, and ecological services rendered by the restored streams. However, this approach cannot be implemented alone if watershed-scale stressors contribute to stream degradation.