- Industry: NGO
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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.
Liquid waste product (whether treated or untreated) discharged from an industrial process or human activity that is discharged into the environment.
Industry:Environment
Nitrogen-containing compound that can exist in the atmosphere or as a dissolved gas in water. It may produce harmful effects on humans and animals.
Industry:Environment
Area of low-lying land where the water table is at or near the surface most of the time. Wetlands include swamps, bogs, fens, marshes and estuaries.
Industry:Environment
Artificially constructed watercourse that serves instream uses (transportation, among others), purposes of water management, irrigation and so forth.
Industry:Environment
Breeding, rearing and farming of fish, as well as cultivation of oysters for pearls or food, in offstream freshwater, brackish water or saline water.
Industry:Environment
Farming system that avoids the use of artificial fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides and uses organic manures and organic methods of crop rotation.
Industry:Environment
In operational terms, upward trend in environmentally adjusted net domestic product (EDP) under certain conditions and assumptions (Bartelmus, 1994).
Industry:Environment
Standards prescribed at sewage works that provide information on biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), suspended solids and ammoniacal nitrogen with a view to obtaining the desired quality of effluents.
Industry:Environment
Areas of housing units that have been constructed or erected on land to which the occupants do not have a legal claim. See also informal settlements.
Industry:Environment
1. internal energy of an atom absorbed by the atom when it was formed; 2. energy derived from the nuclear transformation (fission or fusion) of atoms.
Industry:Environment
