- 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.
Information system that can input, process, analyse and visualize geographically referenced data in order to support decision-making processes.
Industry:Environment
Process to render waste water fit to meet environmental standards or other quality norms. Three broad types of treatment may be distinguished.
Industry:Environment
Costs reflecting the qualitative deterioration of the natural environment by economic activities. See also environmental costs and damage cost.
Industry:Environment
Audible sound from traffic, construction and so on that may generate unpleasant and harmful effects (hearing loss). It is measured in decibels.
Industry:Environment
Environmental services, including spatial functions, waste disposal, natural resource supply and life support. See also environmental services.
Industry:Environment
1. Ability of an organism to endure unfavourable environmental conditions. 2. Amount of a chemical in food considered safe for humans or animals.
Industry:Environment
Amount of light obscured by particulate pollution in the air. Evaluation of smoke density is based on opacity according to the Ringelmann chart.
Industry:Environment
Condition of being unprotected in an environment containing harm-producing substances or factors. It is measured in terms of level and duration.
Industry:Environment
Cycle through which energy and essential substances are transferred among species and between the biotic and abiotic segments of the environment.
Industry:Environment
Minute organisms such as viruses, bacteria, fungi and protozoa, some of which cause disease. They are also called microbiota or micro-organisms.
Industry:Environment
