- 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.
Plant or animal residues that undergo quick degradation by bacteriological action causing odours and attracts flies.
Industry:Environment
Preservation, control and development of water resources, both surface and groundwater, and prevention of pollution.
Industry:Environment
Used water, typically discharged into the sewage system. It contains matter and bacteria in solution or suspension.
Industry:Environment
Areas of older housing that are deteriorating in the sense of their being underserviced, overcrowded and dilapidated.
Industry:Environment
Classification of areas according to the intensity of the noise levels that are acceptable for particular activities.
Industry:Environment
Component of photochemical smog, injurious to plants at a concentration of more than 0.05 parts per million (p.p.m.).
Industry:Environment
Erosion of the soil as a direct result of high-velocity wind. It generally occurs in dry areas devoid of vegetation.
Industry:Environment
Natural assets in their role of providing natural resource inputs and environmental services for economic production.
Industry:Environment
Rights to sell and buy actual or potential pollution in artificially created markets. See also economic instruments.
Industry:Environment
Study of insects with particular reference to pests affecting agricultural crops and the control of their population.
Industry:Environment
