- Industry: NGO
- Number of terms: 31364
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
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.
Notion of human welfare (well-being) measured by social indicators rather than by "quantitative" measures of income and production.
Industry:Environment
Gaseous chemical compound used in producing plastics. Prolonged exposure to its vapours has been linked to several forms of cancer.
Industry:Environment
Moral principles governing the human attitude towards the environment, and rules of conduct for environmental care and preservation.
Industry:Environment
Plant that lives from year to year, becoming dormant after one growing season and sending up new shoots for the next growing season.
Industry:Environment
Proxy measure for consumption of a product or material, defined as production plus imports minus exports of the product or material.
Industry:Environment
Storm water from city streets and adjacent domestic or commercial properties that contains litter, and organic and bacterial wastes.
Industry:Environment
Tax levied on an agent causing an environmental externality (environmental damage) as an incentive to avert or mitigate such damage.
Industry:Environment
Waste elimination techniques comprising landfills, containment, underground disposal, dumping at sea and all other disposal methods.
Industry:Environment
Physical feature of a surface area, including its relief or relative elevations, and the position of human-made and natural features.
Industry:Environment
Process of reducing materials to small pieces. It is essential for fast mechanical composting and decomposition of organic material.
Industry:Environment
