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The United Nations Organization (UNO), or simply United Nations (UN), is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace.
Portion of rainfall, melted snow or irrigation water that flows across the ground's surface and is eventually returned to streams. Run-off can pick up pollutants from air or land and carry them to receiving waters.
Industry:Environment
Principle according to which the polluter should bear the cost of measures to reduce pollution according to the extent of either the damage done to society or the exceeding of an acceptable level (standard) of pollution.
Industry:Environment
1. Erosion by rain, frost, wind or water of the solid matter of the earth. The term often implies the removal of soil down to the bedrock. 2. Removal, by natural or artificial means, of all vegetation and organic matter.
Industry:Environment
Protection of soil from erosion and other types of deterioration, so as to maintain soil fertility and productivity. It generally includes watershed management and water use. See also protection of soil and groundwater.
Industry:Environment
Retention of hazardous material so as to ensure that it is effectively prevented from dispersing into the environment, or released only at an acceptable level. Containment may occur in specially built containment spaces.
Industry:Environment
The plan of action to achieve sustainable development that was adopted by world leaders at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 1992 (United Nations, 1993b).
Industry:Environment
Application of statistical methods to the description and monitoring of ecosystems. Such monitoring may require modelling (beyond statistical measurement) which is the subject of the related domain of statistical ecology.
Industry:Environment
Environmental protection activity comprising the conservation of threatened species of fauna and flora and the protection of ecosystems/habitats that are essential to the well-being of significant species of fauna and flora.
Industry:Environment
Taxa with small world populations that, though not at present endangered or vulnerable, are at risk. These taxa are localized within restricted geographical areas or habitats or thinly scattered over a more extensive range.
Industry:Environment
Economic value of a standing tree, equivalent to the amount concessionaires earn when a log is sold to the sawmill or the exporter, less the cost of logging. It is used as the net-price valuation in environmental accounting.
Industry:Environment
