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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.
Thin stratum of the earth's surface and upper water layer that contains the total mass of living organisms that process and recycle the energy and nutrients available from the environment.
Industry:Environment
Type of wetland with water standing permanently or for a considerable period of time and with a dense cover of native vegetation. Swamps may be freshwater or saltwater, and tidal or non-tidal.
Industry:Environment
Assets including human-made (produced) non-financial assets and non-produced natural assets, and excluding intangible (non-produced) assets such as patents or goodwill. See also natural assets.
Industry:Environment
Body of water impounded by a dam, used for the supply of drinking water, electricity generation, irrigation or animal husbandry. Watercourses serving as part of a reservoir system are included.
Industry:Environment
Source of non-natural air pollution released over a relatively small area that cannot be classified as a point source. Such sources may include vehicles and other small fuel combustion engines.
Industry:Environment
1. Presence of substances and heat in environmental media (air, water, land) whose nature, location, or quantity produces undesirable environmental effects. 2. Activity that generates pollutants.
Industry:Environment
A management tool used to allocate a fixed share of the quota to individual fishermen or companies. ITSQs are usually granted as a form of long-term fishing right and are tradable (transferable).
Industry:Environment
Payment for the use of assets, including certain intangible assets, such as patents, and tangible ones, notably subsoil assets. Royalties paid for the use of subsoil assets are also called rents.
Industry:Environment
Type of wetland that does not accumulate appreciable peat deposits and is dominated by herbaceous vegetation. Marshes may be either fresh- or saltwater, and tidal or non-tidal. See also wetland.
Industry:Environment
Environmental policy that relies on regulation (permission, prohibition, standard setting and enforcement) as opposed to financial incentives, that is, economic instruments of cost internalization.
Industry:Environment
