- Industria: 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.
Material that contains or is contaminated with radionuclides at concentrations greater than those established as "exempt" by the competent authorities. To avoid persistent harmful effects, long-term storage is necessary, for which purpose so-called "isotope cemeteries" and abandoned quarries are used.
Industry:Environment
Succession of stages undergone by water in its passage from the atmosphere to the earth and its return to the atmosphere. The stages include evaporation from the land or sea or inland water, condensation to form clouds, precipitation, accumulation in the soil or in bodies of water, and re-evaporation.
Industry:Environment
Specific coefficients used to determine equivalence between units of mass and volume, energy and work and power; conversion factors are also used to convert quantities of energy production and consumption from their original physical units into a common unit of measurement. See also equivalent factors.
Industry:Environment
Building regulations concerning materials, structural design, construction practices, safety, building services (lighting, ventilation, electricity, heating/air conditioning, escalators, plumbing, water supply, drainage and so forth) and specifications for appropriate administrative and technical control.
Industry:Environment
Cost generated by repercussions (effects) of direct environmental impacts (e.g. emission of pollutants) such as the degradation of ecosystems, damage to produced structures and health effects borne by individuals. Valuation techniques for damage costs include contingent and related demand-side valuations.
Industry:Environment
Cost incurred by repercussions (effects) of direct environmental impacts (for example, from the emission of pollutants) such as the degradation of land or human-made structures and health effects. In environmental accounting, it is part of the costs borne by economic agents. See also environmental costs.
Industry:Environment
Standards determining the quality of drinking water in the context of prevailing environmental, social, economic and cultural conditions, with reference to the presence of suspended matter, excess salts, unpleasant taste and all harmful microbes. Meeting of those standards does not necessarily imply purity.
Industry:Environment
Two-dimensional scheme that combines criteria of increasing geologic assurance (undiscovered/possible/probable/proved reserves) with those of increasing economic feasibility (subeconomic "resources" as compared with economic "reserves" depending on price and cost levels and available extraction technologies).
Industry:Environment
Environmental protection activity involving the construction, maintenance and operation of facilities for the reduction of emissions into ambient air, or of concentrations in the air, of air pollutants through the use of particulate emission collectors, gaseous emission control devices or other technical means.
Industry:Environment
Activity aiming at protecting soils against erosion whether from wind, water or gravitation (falling rocks, landslides and so forth). These activities may take the form of planting, maintenance of protective vegetation, terracing of slopes or measures against desertification. See also mechanical erosion control.
Industry:Environment
