- Industry: 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.
Maximum use that a renewable resource can sustain without impairing its renewability through natural growth or replenishment.
Industry:Environment
Area in which water reaches the zone of saturation from surface infiltration. It is also referred to as recharge groundwater.
Industry:Environment
Biochemical decomposition of organic matter, resulting in partial gasification, liquefaction and mineralization of pollutants.
Industry:Environment
Closed tank in waste-water treatment plants that decreases the volume of solids and stabilizes raw sludge by bacterial action.
Industry:Environment
Geographical region all of whose features (hills, bodies of water) determine a common atmospheric interaction for that region.
Industry:Environment
Method of evaluating the probability of the adverse effects of a substance, industrial process, technology or natural process.
Industry:Environment
Organism that carries a pathogen from an infected to an uninfected individual, for example, the mosquito (vector for malaria).
Industry:Environment
Specific chemical that kills or controls target pests. Pesticides are regulated primarily on the basis of active ingredients.
Industry:Environment
System for monitoring environmental quality in order to detect areas of pollution concentration in time for remedial measures.
Industry:Environment
Conversion of the insoluble organic matter in wastes to a soluble state, thereby effecting a reduction in their solid contents.
Industry:Environment
