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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.
Continuous or frequent standardized measurement and observation of the environment (air, water, land/soil, biota), often used for warning and control.
Industry:Environment
Method of cultivation whereby areas of the forest are burnt and cleared for planting. When soil fertility declines, cultivation shifts to a new plot.
Industry:Environment
Erosion of soil as a result of soil's being exposed to water or wind by the burrowing of rodents, and or the destruction of vegetation by insects.
Industry:Environment
Natural source of dinitrogenoxide (N2O) from the bacterial or chemical reduction of nitrates in water or soil, producing first nitrites, then nitrogen.
Industry:Environment
Process used for controlling the temperature, humidity and cleanliness of the air and bringing them to certain specified levels in rooms and buildings.
Industry:Environment
The number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.
Industry:Environment
Present value of an investment, found by discounting all current and future streams of income by an appropriate rate of interest. See market valuation.
Industry:Environment
Ability of a substance to cause poisonous effects resulting in severe biological harm or death after exposure to, or contamination with, that substance.
Industry:Environment
Any plant especially adapted for capturing insects and other tiny animals by means of ingenious pitfalls and traps (also called an insectivorous plant).
Industry:Environment
Capability of a natural system to apply self-regulating mechanisms so as to return to a steady state after an outside disturbance. See also resilience.
Industry:Environment
