- 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.
Adjusted measure of total national output, including only the consumption and investment items that contribute directly to economic well-being. Calculated as additions to gross national product (GNP), including the value of leisure and the underground economy, and deductions such as environmental damage. It is also known as net economic welfare (NEW) (Samuelson and Nordhaus, 1992).
Industry:Environment
Accounting system that deals with stocks and stock changes of natural assets, comprising biota (produced or wild), subsoil assets (proved reserves), water and land with their aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. It is frequently used in the sense of physical accounting as distinguished from monetary (environmental) accounting. See also environmental accounting and physical accounting.
Industry:Environment
Activities of environmental protection, involving the erection, maintenance and operation of anti-erosion structures; water development; mudflow; landslide and avalanche prevention structures; coastal erosion prevention structures (dune stabilization); flood protection structures; fire protection structures; terraces on steep slopes; protective strips of woodland; and similar facilities.
Industry:Environment
Arable land not under rotation that is set aside for a period of time ranging from one to five years before it is cultivated again; or land, usually under permanent crops, meadows or pastures, that is not being used for such purposes for a period of at least one year. Arable land that is normally used for the cultivation of temporary crops, but temporarily used for grazing, is included.
Industry:Environment
Development at regional and local levels, consistent with the potentials of the area involved, with attention given to the adequate and rational use of natural resources, technological styles and organizational forms that respect the natural ecosystems and local social and cultural patterns (UNEP, 1975). The term is also used to describe an integrated approach to environment and development.
Industry:Environment
Station to monitor background concentration levels of air polluting substances that are significant for a given region or for the globe as a whole. Regional stations are located far enough away from industry and urban areas not to pick up day-by-day fluctuations in pollution levels. The purpose is to measure long-term changes in the composition of the atmosphere. See also baseline station.
Industry:Environment
Collection and transport of waste to the place of treatment or discharge by municipal services or similar institutions, or by public or private corporations, specialized enterprises or general government. Collection of municipal waste may be selective, that is to say, carried out for a specific type of product, or undifferentiated, in other words, covering all kinds of waste at the same time.
Industry:Environment
Conceptual framework for environmental, social and economic indicators that addresses the concerns of potential data users as reflected in Agenda 21 (United Nations, 1993b) of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development with the information categories of the framework for environmental data production (FDES). It was developed by the United Nations Statistics Division in 1994.
Industry:Environment
Inert, non-toxic and easily liquefied chemicals used in refrigeration, air-conditioning, packaging and insulation, or as solvents and aerosol propellants. Because CFCs are not destroyed in the lower atmosphere, they drift into the upper atmosphere where their chlorine components destroy ozone. They are also among the greenhouse gases that may affect climate change. See also aerosol propellant.
Industry:Environment
Sequence of climatological events. The heat of the sun evaporates water from land and water surfaces; vapour, being lighter than air, rises until it reaches the cooler upper air level where it condenses into clouds; further condensation produces precipitation that falls to earth as rain, sleet or snow; some of the water is retained by the soil and some run-off returns to rivers, lakes and oceans.
Industry:Environment
